Motor Speech Disorders Laboratory

 

Publications Related to Research Projects (in Chronological Order)

Struve B, Munce A, Saunders R, Saunders M, Olswang LB, Dowden P, & Klasner E (in press). Discovering indices of contingency awareness in adults with multiple profound disabilities. American Journal on Mental Retardation.
       
Olswang LB, Coggins TE, & Svensson L (2007). Assessing social communication in the classroom: observing manner and duration of performance. Topics in Language Disorders, (27), 107-125.
     
Thorne JC, Coggins TE, Carmichael Olson H, Astley SJ. (2007) Exploring the utility of narrative analysis in diagnostic decision making: picture-bound reference, elaboration, and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50(2):459-74.
      
Coggins TE, Timler GR, Olswang LB (2007). A state of double jeopardy: impact of prenatal alcohol exposure and adverse environments on the social communicative abilities of school-age children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools. Apr;38(2):117-27.
    
Olswang LB, Svensson L, Coggins TE, Beilinson JS, Donaldson AL (2006). Reliability issues and solutions for coding social communication performance in classroom settings. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49(5):1058-71.
       
Olswang LB, Pinder G-L, & Hanson R (2006). Communication in young children with motor impairments: Teaching caregivers to teach. Seminars in Speech and Language. Current Issues in Providing Services to Infants and Toddlers, 27, 199-214.
        
Timler GR, Olswang LB, Coggins TE (2005). Social communication interventions for preschoolers: targeting peer interactions during peer group entry and cooperative play. Seminars in Speech and Language. 2005 Aug;26(3):170-80.
         
Timler GR, Olswang LB, Coggins TE (2005). "Do I know what I need to do?" A social communication intervention for children with complex clinical profiles. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 36(1):73-85.
         
Mellstrom B, Saunders M, Saunders R, Olswang LB (March 2005). Interaction of behavioral state and microswitch use in individuals with profound multiple impairments. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 35-53.
             
  
Manuscripts under review or in preparation
  
Thorne JC, & Coggins TE (under review). A diagnostically promising technique for tallying nominal reference errors in the narratives of school-aged children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.
     
Hanson RA & Olswang LB (under review). Re-requesting help: Infant repair strategies and implications for intentional communication development.
          
Coggins TE, & Thorne JC (in preparation). Substance abuse and childhood language disorders. In J. S. Damico, M. J. Ball & N. Muller (Eds.), Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders: Ames, IA, Blackwell.