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...
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...
Diagnosing a speech motor disorder is very challenging right now for the field. We have paradigms that were developed about 30 or 40 years ago, and we haven’t really changed much as a field. That’s because in many of the speech disorders, the symptoms overlap. It’s hard to really get...
Advice for “thinking about the noise” and the value of adding mixed model analysis to your research toolkit Noisy data has a high degree of variability and a greater range — of scores, or reaction times, or whatever it is you’re measuring. In a lot of the cochlear implant studies...
An overview of definitions, conceptual approaches, design types, and methodology The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. What am I going to do today? I’m going to define for you what CBPR is, give you a little bit about the concepts and the theory that...
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