Contact information
Business Address: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: 319-335-8724
Email: karla-mcgregor@uiowa.edu

Education / Professional History
Higher Education
Purdue University, 1988-1992, Speech and Language Pathology, Ph.D. 1992
Purdue University, 1984-1987, Speech and Language Pathology, M.S. 1987
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1980-1984, English, B.A. 1984

Professional and Academic Positions
Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2008-present, University of Iowa
Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2005-present, University of Iowa
Editor for Language, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007-present
Link to JSLHR / Link for JSLHR submissions
Co-Director, Iowa Center for Developmental and Learning Sciences, 2006-present, University of Iowa
Associate Professor of Psychology (courtesy appointment), 2003-2005, Northwestern University
Visiting Academic, Oxford Study of Children's Communication Impairments, June 2003-December 2003, University of Oxford
Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, 1998-2004, Northwestern University
Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, 1992-1998, Northwestern University
Speech-Language Pathologist, 1987-1988, Bill Wilkerson Center, Vanderbilt University

Honors and Awards
Editor's Award for the Article of Highest Merit in Language: McGregor, K.K., Newman, R.M, Reilly, R., & Capone, N.C. (2002). Semantic representation and naming in children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, Hearing Research, 45, 998-1014. American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association, 2003

Editor's Award for the Article of Highest Merit: Gerken, L., & McGregor, K.K. (1998). An overview of prosody and its role in normal and disordered child language. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 7, 38-48, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 1999

Faculty Honor Roll for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, Northwestern University, 1996

SCHOLARSHIP

Refereed Publications
Articles
McGregor, K.K., Rost, G.C., Guo, L.Y., Sheng, L. (under review). What compounds mean to children with SLI.

Sheng, L., & McGregor, K.K. (under review). Lexical-semantic organization in children with specific language impairment: Evidence from a repeated word association task.

McGregor, K.K., Rohlfing, K., Bean, A., & Marschner, E. (2008). Gesture as a support for word learning: The case of under. Journal of Child Language. Published online by Cambridge University Press 24 Oct 2008 d.

Booth, Amy E., McGregor, Karla K. & Rohlfing, Katharina J. (2008). Socio-Pragmatics and attention: Contributions to gesturally guided word learning in toddlers. Language Learning and Development, 4, 179-202.

McGregor, K.K., Sheng, L., & Ball, T. (2007). Complexities of word learning over time. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 38, 1 – 12.

Hashimoto, N., McGregor, K.K., & Graham, A. (2007). Conceptual organization at six and eight: Evidence from the semantic priming of object decisions. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 161-176.

Smith, B., McGregor, K.K., & DeMille, D. (2006). Phonological development in lexically precocious two-year-olds. Applied Psycholinguistics, 27, 355-375.

Newman, R.M., & McGregor, K.K. (2006). Teachers and laypersons discern quality differences in narratives produced by children with or without SLI. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49, 1022-1036.

Sheng, L., McGregor, K.K., & Marian, V. (2006). Lexical-semantic organization in bilingual children: Evidence from a repeated word association task. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49, 572-587.

Capone, N., & McGregor, K.K. (2005). The effect of semantic representation on toddlers' word retrieval. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 48, 1468-1480.

McGregor, K.K., Sheng, L., & Smith, B. (2005). The precocious two-year-old: Status of the lexicon and links to the grammar. Journal of Child Language, 32, 563-585.

Capone, N.C., & McGregor, K.K. (2004). Gesture development: A review for clinicians and researchers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47, 173-186.

McGregor, K.K., & Capone, N.C. (2004). Genetic and environment interactions in determining the early lexicon: Evidence from a set of tri-zygotic quadruplets. Journal of Child Language, 31, 311-337.

Sheng, L., McGregor, K.K., & Xu, Y. (2003). Prosodic and lexical-syntactic aspects of the therapeutic register. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 17, 355-363.

Eyer, J.A., Leonard, L.B., Bedore, L.M., McGregor, K.K., Anderson, B., & Viescas, R. (2002). Fast mapping of verbs by children with specific language impairment. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 16, 59-77.

McGregor, K.K., & Appel, A. (2002). On the relation between mental representation and naming in a child with specific language impairment. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 16, 1-20.

McGregor, K.K., Friedman, R.M., Reilly, R.M., & Newman, R.M. (2002). Semantic representation and naming in young children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 45, 332-346.

McGregor, K.K., Newman, R.M., Reilly, R.M., & Capone, N. (2002). Semantic representation and naming in children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 45, 998-1014.

Kim, M., McGregor, K.K., & Thompson, C.K. (2000). Early lexical development in English- and Korean-speaking children: Language-general and language-specific patterns. Journal of Child Language, 27, 225-254.

McGregor, K.K. (2000). Development and enhancement of narrative skills in a preschool classroom: Toward a solution to clinician-client mismatch. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 9, 55-71.

Gerken, L., & McGregor, K.K. (1998). An overview of prosody and its role in normal and disordered child language. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 7, 38-48.

McGregor, K.K., & Waxman, S.R. (1998). Object naming at multiple hierarchical levels: A comparison of preschoolers with and without word-finding deficits. Journal of Child Language, 25, 419-430.

McGregor, K.K. (1997). The nature of word-finding errors of preschoolers with and without word-finding deficits. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 40, 1232-1244.

McGregor, K.K., & Johnson, A.C. (1997). Trochaic template use in early words and phrases. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 40, 1220-1231.

McGregor, K.K., Williams, D., Hearst, S., & Johnson, A.C. (1997). The use of contrastive analysis in distinguishing difference from disorder: A tutorial. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 6, 45-56.

Stark, R.E., & McGregor, K.K. (1997). Follow-up study of a right- and a left-hemispherectomized child: Implications for developmental language disorder. Brain and Language, 60, 222-242.

McGregor, K.K., & Windsor, J. (1996). Effects of priming on the naming accuracy of preschoolers with word-finding deficits. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 39, 1048-1058.

McGregor, K.K. (1994). Article use in the spontaneous samples of children with specific language impairment: The importance of considering syntactic contexts. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 8, 153-160.

McGregor, K.K. (1994). The use of phonological information in a word-finding treatment for children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 37, 1381-1393.

McGregor, K.K., & Leonard, L.B. (1994). Subject pronoun and article omissions in the speech of children with specific language impairment: A phonological interpretation. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 37, 171-181.

Le Normand, M.T., Leonard, L.B., & McGregor, K.K. (1993). A crosslinguistic study of article use by children with specific language impairment. European Journal of Disorders of Communication, 28, 153-163.

Leonard, L.B., Bortolini, U., Caselli, M.C., McGregor, K.K., & Sabbadini, L. (1992). Morphological deficits in children with specific language impairment: The status of features in the underlying grammar. Language Acquisition, 2, 151-179.

Leonard, L.B., McGregor, K.K., & Allen, G.D. (1992). Grammatical morphology and speech perception in children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 35, 1076-1085.

McGregor, K.K., & Schwartz, R.G. (1992). Converging evidence for underlying phonological representation in a child who misarticulates. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 35, 596-603.

Leonard, L.B., & McGregor, K.K. (1991). Unusual phonological patterns and their underlying representations: A case study. Journal of Child Language, 18, 261-271.

McGregor, K.K., & Leonard, L.B. (1989). Facilitating word-finding skills of language-impaired children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 54, 141-147.

Book Chapters/Encyclopedia Entries/Proceedings/Non-referred Journal Articles
Tomblin, J.B., McGregor, K.K., Bean, A. (in press). Specific language impairment. To appear in Autism spectrum disorders, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McGregor, K.K. (2008). Gesture supports children's word learning. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 10, 112-117.

McGregor, K.K. (2008). Semantic deficits associated with developmental language disorders. In R.G. Schwartz (Ed.), The Handbook of Child Language Disorders (365-387). New York: Psychology Press.

McGregor, K.K. (2008). Speech and language impairments. In E.M. Anderman & L. Anderman (Eds.). Psychology of classroom learning: An encyclopedia. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale.

McGregor, K.K., Bean, A., Walker, E., & Stiles, D. (2008). Learning word meanings. Interactive Autism Network. Available at: http://iancommunity.org/cs/articles/wordmeanings

McGregor, K.K., & Samuelson, L.K. (2008).  Early milestones in the development of spoken English, Language and Literacy Encyclopedia. Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network.  Available at: http://literacyencyclopedia.ca/index.php?fa=items.show&topicId=241

Stiles, D.J., Bentler, R., McGregor, K.K. (2008). Effects of a directional mic on children's word recognition and novel word learning. The Hearing Journal, 61, 22-25.

McGregor, K.K. (2005, October). Children's word learning: An introduction. Perspectives on Language Learning and Education, 12, 3 -4.

McGregor, K.K. (2004). Developmental dependencies between semantics and reading. In C.A. Stone, E.R. Silliman, B.J. Ehren, & K. Apel (Eds.), Handbook of language and literacy development and disorders (pp. 302-317). New York: Guilford Publications.

McGregor, K.K. (2004). Semantics. In R.D. Kent (Ed.), MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Sciences and Disorders (pp. 395-398). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Davis, K.F., McGregor, K.K., & Lopacki, S. (2003). Is twinning a risk factor for early language delay? Fonoaudiologica, 49, 18-31.

McGregor, K.K. (2003). Working memory: An introduction to the conference proceedings. Journal of Communication Disorders, 36, 185-188.

McGregor, K.K. (1997). Prosodic influences on children's grammatical morphology. Topics in Language Disorders, 17:4, 63-75.

McGregor, K.K., & Waxman, S.R. (1996). Multiple level naming abilities of children with word-finding deficits. In A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E. Hughes, and A. Zukowski (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Volume 2, (pp. 483-493). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

McGregor, K.K. (1995). Helping with word-finding difficulties. In T. DeFeo (Ed.), More parent articles, (pp. 19-20). Tucson, AZ : Communication Skill Builders.

McGregor, K.K., & Leonard, L.B. (1995). Intervention for word-finding deficits in children. In M. Fey, J. Windsor & S. Warren, (Eds.), Language intervention: Preschool through the elementary years, (pp. 85-105). Baltimore, MD : Paul H. Brookes.

Presentations
Bean, A., & McGregor, K.K. (2008, June). Perceptual Cues Facilitate Naming in 2-year-olds. Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

Sheng, L., & McGregor, K.K. (2008, June). Lexical Retrieval and Semantic Organization in Children with and without SLI. Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

Sheng, L., & McGregor, K.K. (2008, June). The Effects of Word Class, Word Frequency, and Lexical Neighborhood Density on Normal and Impaired Word Retrieval. Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

McGregor, K. K. (2008, May). Autism and language impairment as windows into word learning. Paper presented at the Workshop on Word Learning sponsored by the Iowa Center for Developmental and Learning Sciences, Iowa City, IA.

Bean, A., McGregor, K.K., Rohlfing, K., & Marschner, E. (2007, June). Gesture facilitates toddlers' refinement of spatial term. Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

McGregor, K.K., Rost, G., & Guo, L.Y. (2007, June). Are children with SLI challenged by the lexical or grammatical components of compound words? Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

McGregor, K.K., Sheng, L., & Ball, T. (2006, July). Complexities of word learning over time. Paper presented at the Child Language Seminar, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Sheng, L., McGregor, K.K., & Marian, V. (2006, May). Cognitive flexibility in bilingual children. Poster presented at Language Acquisition and Bilingualism, Toronto, Canada.

Booth, A., McGregor, K.K., & Rohlfing, K. (2005, July). From eye gaze to manipulation. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, Germany.

Sheng, L., McGregor, K.K., & Marian, V. (2005, July). Semantic organization in bilingual children: Evidence from a repeated word association task. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, Germany.

Reilly, R.M., & McGregor, K.K. (2005, June). Facilitation effects in English & Spanish vocabulary learning by early school-age children: A study of novice & bilingual L2 learners. Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

Capone, N.C., McGregor, K.K., & Dalal, N. (2004, November). Gesture as an index of semantic development in toddlers. Poster presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA.

McGregor, K.K., Sheng, L., Graham, A., Grohne-Reilly, K., & Keegan, M. (2004, November). The role of frequency and context in learning the phonology and semantics of words. Paper presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA.

McGregor, K., Bishop, D.V.M., & Norbury, C. (2004, June). Behavioral overlap between children with SLI, PDD, and Autism: Evidence from lexical profiles. Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

Sheng, L., McGregor, K., Marian, V., & Grohne, K. (2004, June). Semantic organization in young Mandarin-English bilingual children: L1, L2, and best performance. Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

Sheng, L., Marian, V., McGregor, K., & Grohne, K. (2004, May). Semantic organization in bilinguals and monolinguals: Is there a bilingual advantage? Poster presented at the Convention of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.

Smith, B.L., McGregor, K.K., & DeMille, D. (2004, May). Phonological development in lexically-precocious two-year-olds. Paper presented at the Child Phonology Conference, Phoenix, AZ.

Graham, A.M., & McGregor, K.K. (2003, November). Depth of vocabulary knowledge in preschoolers. Poster presented at the NIDCD-Sponsored Research Symposium Outcomes Research and Evidence-Based Practice, Chicago, IL.

Newman, R.M., & McGregor, K.K. (2003, November). Parents' and teachers' perception of narrative quality in young children. Poster presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language- Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

McGregor, K.K., Sheng, L., & Smith, B. (2003, July). Individual differences in adherence to lexical principles at age two. Poster presented at the Child Language Seminar, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Capone, N., & McGregor, K.K. (2003, June). Gesture facilitation of semantic and phonological storage and recall in toddlers. Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

McGregor, K.K. (2002, November). After the word spurt: Lexical development in (pre)school children. Paper presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.

Hashimoto, N., & McGregor, K.K. (2002, July). Semantic priming of object decisions: A comparison of adults and children. Poster presented at the joint meeting of the IXth Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language and the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

McGregor, K.K., & Hashimoto, N. (2002, July). Nonverbal processing in children with disordered language development. Paper presented at the joint meeting of the IXth Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language and the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

McGregor, K.K., & Newman, R. (2002, July). The relationship between lexical problems in naming tasks and discourse tasks. Paper presented at the joint meeting of the IXth Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language and the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

McGregor, K.K., Pampliega, I.G., Garbagnoli, M.E., Ramos, F. L. & Reilly, R. (2002, July). The use of word formation rules in English and Spanish speakers with SLI. Paper presented at the joint meeting of the IXth Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language and the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

Smith, B.L. & McGregor, K.K. (2002, June). Temporal characteristics of the speech of typical and lexically precocious two-year-old children: Preliminary observations. Paper presented at the Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA.

Sheng, L., Xu, Y., & McGregor, K.K. (2002, May). Prosodic features of the speech of speech-language pathologists during language therapy. Poster session presented at the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, Hong Kong.

McGregor, K.K., & Capone, N.C. (2001, December). Contributions of genetic, environmental, and health-related factors to the acquisition of early gestures and words: A longitudinal case study of quadruplets. Poster session presented at the conference on Early Lexicon Acquisition: Normal and Pathological Development, Lyon, France.

McGregor, K.K., Newman, R.M., & Reilly, R.M. (2001, June ). Word storage and word retrieval: Some strengths and weaknesses of children with SLI. Poster session presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

Smith, B.L. & McGregor, K.K. (2001, May). Phonologic and temporal-acoustic analyses of the speech of lexically precocious two-year-old children. Paper presented at the Child Phonology Conference. Boston, MS.

McGregor, K.K. (2000, November). The lexicon in clinical application: Phonological and semantic effects on lexical access in children with SLI. Paper presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Washington, DC.

McGregor, K.K. (2000, November). Risk factors affecting language development. Paper presented as part of a sponsored session Language Disorders in Children: New Findings, at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Washington, DC.

Newman, R. M., McGregor, K.K., & Reilly, R.M. (2000, November). Narrative discourse abilities of preschoolers. Poster presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Washington, DC.

McGregor, K.K., Reilly, R.M., & Newman, R.M. (2000, June). Naming and semantic representation in children with specific language impairment. Poster session presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

McGregor, K.K. (1999, November). SLI and the lexicon. Paper presented as part of a sponsored session Hot Topics in JSLHR-Language: Children with Specific Language Impairment, at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Francisco, CA.

McGregor, K.K., Newman, R.M., & Reilly, R.M. (1999, November). Improving word storage and word retrieval in young children. Paper presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Francisco, CA.

McGregor, K.K. (1999, July). Semantic representation and developmental word-finding deficits. Paper presented at the VIIIth Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, San Sebastian, Spain.

McGregor, K.K. (1998, November). On a child's representation of misnamed words, Paper presented as part of a sponsored session The Specific Language Impairment Lexicon, at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Antonio, TX.

McGregor, K.K., & Reilly, R. (1998, November). Dialect density in young African American English speakers. Poster session presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Antonio, TX.

McGregor, K.K., & Williams, D. (1997, November). Narrative development in preschoolers who speak African-American English. Poster session presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA.

Waxman, S.R., & McGregor, K.K. (1997, May). Word-learning biases of preschoolers with and without language impairment. Poster session presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

McGregor, K.K. (1996, November). Prosody-syntax relations in impaired language development: Data and clinical implications. Paper presented as part of a special session on Prosody and Specific Language Impairment, at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Seattle, WA.

McGregor, K.K., Williams, D., Hearst, S., & Johnson, A.C. (1996, November ). The use of contrastive analysis to distinguish difference from disorder. Poster session presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Seattle, WA.

McGregor, K.K., & Waxman, S.R. (1995, November). Multiple level naming abilities of children with word-finding deficits. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

McGregor, K.K., & Windsor, J. (1995, June ). Priming effects on naming of preschoolers with word-finding deficits. Poster session presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

McGregor, K.K. (1995, February). The nature of word-finding errors in preschoolers with language impairment. Paper presented at the Convention of the Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

McGregor, K.K., & Appel, A. (1994, November). Nonstandard approaches to assessment of word-finding problems in preschoolers. Paper presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, LA.

McGregor, K.K., & Johnson, A.C. (1994, November). Articulatory influences on morpho-syntax: A study of article use. Poster session presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, LA.

McGregor, K.K., & Bedore, L. (1994, June). The identification of formulaic language in a child with specific language impairment. Poster session presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

McGregor, K.K. (1993, November). Generalization in the treatment of word-finding deficits of language-impaired children. Poster session presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Anaheim, CA.

Leonard, L., Eyer, J., Bedore, L., & McGregor, K.K. (1993, July). The role of morphology in the acquisition of new words: A study of children with specific language impairment. Paper presented at the Sixth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Trieste, Italy.

Bortolini, U., Leonard, L.B., & McGregor, K.K. (1992, June). Overregularization in the grammatical morphology of children with specific language impairment. Poster session presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

Leonard, L.B., McGregor, K.K., & Allen, G.D. (1991, November). Perceptual and morphological abilities of children with specific language-impairment. Poster session presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.

Leonard, L.B., Caselli, M.C., Bortolini, U., & McGregor, K.K. (1990, October). Some rival accounts of morphological deficits in specific language impairment: A crosslinguistic study. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

McGregor, K.K., Klee, T., & Gavin, W. (1989, November). Developmental analysis of the dependency of clause structure on verbs. Paper presented at the Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, St. Louis, MO.

McGregor, K.K., & Schwartz, R.G. (1989, June). Evidence for underlying representation: A case study. Paper presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

McGregor, K.K. (1989, April). Analysis of a phonological system. Poster session presented at the Indiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference, Indianapolis, IN.

Grants Funded

External
The Role of Consolidation and Sleep in Children's Word Learning, 2008-2010, R21, National Institutes of Health-NIDCD, P.I.

Augmentation to the Development of Word Meaning, 2006-07. Autism Speaks, P.I.

The Development of Word Meaning, 2005-2008, R01, National Institutes of Health-NIDCD, P.I.

Eye Gaze as a Cue to Word Reference, 2004-2006, New Century Scholars Research Grant,

ASHA Foundation, research funds, travel funds, P.I.

Specific Language Impairment and the Lexicon, 1998-2003, R29, National Institutes of Health NIDCD, P.I.

Internal
Sexual Orientation and Speech (interdisciplinary project between Psychology, Linguistics, and CSD), 2002, ILS Seed Grant, Northwestern University, Consultant

Semantic Processing in Children with Specific Language Impairment, 2000-2001,

Communication Sciences and Disorders Volwiler Competition, Northwestern University, P.I.

Syntactic Cues and Word Learning, 1997-1998, Northwestern University Seed Grant, P.I.

The Effects of Twinning and Prematurity on Speech and Language Development, 1996-1998,

Northwestern Memorial Foundation Grant, Co-P.I. (with Karla Davis)

Grammatical and Prosodic Relations in Early Child Language, 1993-1994, Northwestern University Seed Grant, P.I.

As Sponsor
American Speech Language Hearing Association Minority Student Leadership Program Fellow, 2002, awarded to Anne Graham, total award: conference fees and travel to Atlanta

Northwestern Graduate Travel Grant, 2002, awarded to Li Sheng: travel to Hong Kong

Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2002, awarded to Li Sheng

Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2001, awarded to Robyn Newman

Communication Sciences and Disorders Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2001, awarded to Nina Capone

Northwestern University Undergraduate Research Grant, 1994, awarded to Danielle Williams