Keisey Fumero, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Manager Education Outreach
Dr. Keisey Fumero’s research focuses on the oral language and literacy development of dual language learners in early childhood. She is interested in how family engagement and early intervention influences the development and maintenance of bilingual language and literacy skills in young dual language learners, with a particular interest in vocabulary and morphosyntactic development. She previously used both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate perceptions of educators and speech-language pathologists toward bilingual education/intervention, examine the morphosyntactic skills of school-aged English learners, and describe the current language facilitating practices of early childhood educators in classrooms with varying proportions of dual language learners. She is currently working on the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) funded Teaching Together study to examine the efficacy of the Teaching Together program–a program that uses a tiered approach to support oral language development in both the classroom and home setting–for pre-kindergarten children who are vulnerable for academic difficulties.
Education
Dr. Fumero earned her doctorate degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. During her studies she was recognized with the following awards:
- Florida State University School of Communication Sciences and Disorders Outstanding Doctoral Student Award
- Florida State University College of Communication & Information Doctoral Student Outstanding Research Poster Award
Certification & Membership
Certification:
Certification of Clinical Competence – Speech-Language Pathologist (CCC-SLP)
Professional Memberships:
- American Speech-Language and Hearing Association
- Society for the Scientific Study of Reading
- National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnership
- American Educational Research Association
