Dr. Wagovich’s primary area of expertise is in childhood fluency disorders and the interactions between language, cognitive factors, and fluency across populations. She has also explored the development of partial word knowledge in children with developmental language disorders. Her current project focuses on language, fluency, and cognitive skills in bilingual children. Many of Dr. Wagovich’s studies have employed language samples, as an ecologically valid way to characterize children’s expressive language. Through language sample analysis of conversation and narrative and expository discourse, her group explores not only children’s language skills but disfluencies or speech disruptions, as an index of cognitive, linguistic, or motor complexity.