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Gaining and applying a deeper understanding of dialect differences in terms of rate, context, and function to better distinguish African American English and Southern White English speaking children with specific language impairment The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. I’m going to be speaking about...
Highlights of an NIDCD-funded longitudinal investigation of spoken language outcomes after early cochlear implantation, differentiating preschool children who overcome their initial delay from those who do not The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Click the PDF icon to download the presentation slides. I’m Ann...
How to discriminate bilingual second-language children with typical development from those with language impairment The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Linguistic Diversity and Clinical Assessment On the theme of bilingualness, bilingualism and variants my title has a primary and/specific language impairment, that’s because it...
This talk focuses on the parallels and differences in early risk markers, developmental trajectories and neurocognitive mechanisms in autism and specific language impairment The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. The overview of my talk is I’ll start by introducing Autism Spectrum Disorder and then...
How did you get started in implementation science as a speech-language pathologist and an early-stage investigator? So, it wasn’t something that I knew I was doing when it happened. When I was doing my doctoral research, I happened to write a conceptual paper about how we could use knowledge about...
Treatment fidelity, also called procedural integrity or treatment integrity, refers to the methodological strategies used to evaluate the extent to which an intervention is being implemented as intended. Maintaining high treatment fidelity helps ensure that changes observed during a study reflect an alteration of the subject’s behavior and not an...
Successful careers in academia start with the sage advice of our mentors and advisors. Many of us can recall hearing friendly reminders, such as, “Negotiate the best teaching load that you can when you start your career; you’ll need time for research” and “Longitudinal studies aren’t the best way to...
With the implementation date for the new Standards for the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology fast approaching (September 2014), the Council for Clinical Certification in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CFCC) would like to review and highlight some of the major changes in certification standards between the 2005 and...
Navigating the pathway to successful tenure and promotion can be an intimidating process for the beginning tenure-track assistant professor. This pathway can look exceedingly difficult to a new junior faculty member, but it does not need to be so. Having a thorough understanding of the underlying foundations of the academic...
Highlighting a successful collaboration model centered on a shared grad student and using computer tools, automation, and algorithms to overcome barriers How did you establish and sustain this cross-disciplinary collaboration? I think if you want to establish a diverse research program, then you need to collaborate with professors and researchers...