Alison Eisel Hendricks directs the University at Buffalo Language Learning Lab in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences. Her research investigates school-age language disorders in children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds with the long-term goal of improving the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of language disorders in children who speak non-mainstream dialects and bilingual children.

Designing and conducting research on child language acquisition in children with hearing loss, specific language impairment, and dyslexia, using behavioral measures as well as eye tracking and ERP.

Research assistant in the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Teaching Linguistics through Penn State World Campus

I split my time living on the North Frisian island of Föhr and in Kiel, Germany while researching Fering, a dialect of North Frisian. I use psycholinguistic experiments and interviews to research the role of input in child language acquisition in North Frisian.