2019 Research Symposium
The Research Symposium is a yearly event at the ASHA Convention, where current, theme-focused research is presented by invited speakers.
Symposium Topic
Advances in Specific Language Impairment Research & Intervention
Symposium Presentations
- What Studies of Twins Tell Us About Specific Language Impairment in Children: Twinning Effects & Heritability at 2, 4, 6, and 16 Years of Age
Mabel Rice, PhD, University of Kansas - Sentence Diversity in Toddlers At-Risk for Specific Language Impairment
Pamela Hadley, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign - Repeated Retrieval Facilitates Word Learning and Recall in Children With Specific Language Impairment
Laurence Leonard, PhD, Purdue University - Clinical Intersections Among Specific Language Impairment, Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder, and Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder
Sean Redmond, PhD, University of Utah - Reading Development and Reading Difficulties in Children with Specific Language Impairment
Suzanne Adlof, PhD, University of South Carolina - Panel Discussion on Specific Language Impairment
All Research Symposium Speakers
The Research Symposium is funded, in part, by a grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).
Symposium Publications
Papers based on the 2019 Research Symposium were published in a Research Forum in the October 2020 issue of Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR). They will be available through PubMed Central beginning in May 2021.
- Rice, Mabel L. (2020). Advances in Specific Language Impairment Research and Intervention: An Overview of Five Research Symposium Papers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(10), 3219-3223.
- Rice, Mabel L. (2020). Causal Pathways for Specific Language Impairment: Lessons From Studies of Twins. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(10), 3224-3235.
- Hadley, Pamela A. (2020). Exploring Sentence Diversity at the Boundary of Typical and Impaired Language Abilities. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(10), 3236-3251.
- Leonard, Laurence B. and Deevy, Patricia. (2020). Retrieval Practice and Word Learning in Children With Specific Language Impairment and Their Typically Developing Peers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(10), 3252-3262.
- Redmond, Sean M. (2020). Clinical Intersections Among Idiopathic Language Disorder, Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder, and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(10), 3263-3276.
- Adlof, Suzanne M. (2020). Promoting Reading Achievement in Children With Developmental Language Disorders: What Can We Learn From Research on Specific Language Impairment and Dyslexia? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(10), 3277-3292.
