José A. Ortiz is an Assistant Professor in Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. He serves as the director of the Language Diversity Lab and the Certificate in Bilingual Speech-Language Pathology. His research centers on the identification of language-related disorders in bilingual children, with emphasis on disproportionality in special education, equitable access to educational services, non-biased assessment, and increasingly, the use of technology-enhanced approaches to assessment and intervention, including automatic speech recognition and natural language processing.