Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders
Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders: Faculty Publications
Mission
SECD is dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals with special needs, their families, schools, and communities.
Vision
Our vision is that every individual with special needs will:
-achieve maximum potential for learning.
-communicate autonomously.
-enjoy optimum health and well-being throughout the lifespan.
Values
Diversity - Our faculty represent diverse expertise in research, teaching and outreach encompassing professions of practice in special education, speech-language pathology and audiology.
Respect - We respect diverse people, viewpoints, ideas and perspectives.
Dedication - We are passionate about and dedicated to the mission of the department and college, focused on success in advancing knowledge, training leaders, and serving our clients, their families and our communities.
Collegiality - Our interactions with others are respectful, polite and professional. Each member's contribution is valued.
Creativity/Innovation - We strive to solve difficult problems to advance the department's professions of practice. We deal with complex issues facing individuals with special needs or disabilities, their families, schools and communities.
Collaboration - We work together across multiple disciplines and scientific fields in order to find answers and solve difficult and complex problems related to individuals with special needs.
Integrity - We carry out our mission and strive for our goals with the highest level of integrity.
2016
Predicting Speech Intelligibility Decline in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Based on the Deterioration of Individual Speech Subsystems, Panying Rong, Yana Yunusova, Jun Wang, Lorne Zinman, Gary Pattee, James D. Berry, Bridget Perry, and Jordan R. Green
Professional Practice and Ethical Issues Related to Physical Restraint and Seclusion in Schools, Brenda Scheuermann, Reece L. Peterson, Joseph B. Ryan, and Glenna Billingsley
Dysphagia Management and Research in an Acute-Care Military Treatment Facility: The Role of Applied Informatics, Nancy Pearl Solomon, Angela M. Dietsch, Katie E. Dietrich-Burns, Edda L. Styrmisdottir, and Christopher S. Armao
Program Monitoring Practices for Teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Early Intervention, Anne E. Thomas and Christine Marvin
2015
Using Visual Scene Displays as Communication Support Options for People with Chronic, Severe Aphasia: A Summary of AAC Research and Future Research Directions, David R. Beukelman, Karen Hux, Aimee R. Dietz, Miechelle L. McKelvey, and Kristy S.E. Weissling
Deletion of Shank1 Has Minimal Effects on the Molecular Composition and Function of Glutamatergic Afferent Postsynapses in the Mouse Inner Ear, Jeremy P. Braude, Sarath Vijayakumar, Katherine Baumgarner, Rebecca Laurine, Timothy A. Jones, Sherri M. Jones, and Sonya J. Pyott
Effects of Age, Sex, and Body Position on Orofacial Muscle Tone in Healthy Adults, Angela M. Dietsch, Heather M. Clark, Jessica N. Steiner, and Nancy Pearl Solomon
Convergent Validity of the Strength-Based Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale with Youth in a Residential Setting, Kristin Duppong-Hurley, Matthew C. Lambert, Michael H. Epstein, and Amy Stevens
Examining Change in Therapeutic Alliance to Predict Youth Mental Health Outcomes, Kristin Duppong-Hurley, Mark J. Van Ryzin, Matthew Lambert, and Amy L. Stevens
RFX Transcription Factors are Essential for Hearing in Mice, Ran Elkon, Beatrice Milon, Laura Morrison, Manan Shah, Sarath Vijayakumar, Manoj Racherla, Carmen C. Leitch, Lorna Silipino, Shadan Hadi, Michèle Weiss-Gayte, Emmanuèle Barras, Christoph D. Schmid, Aouatef Ait-Lounis, Ashley Barnes, Yang Song, David J. Eisenman, Efrat Eliyahu, Gregory I. Frolenkov, Scott E. Strome, Bénédicte Durand, Norann A. Zaghloul, Sherri M. Jones, Walter Reith, and Ronna Hertzano
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT AND WRITING: A Meta-Analysis, Steve Graham, Michael Hebert, and Karen R. Harris
Psychometric Evaluation of the Symptoms and Functioning Severity Scale (SFSS) Short Forms with Out-of-Home Care Youth, Thomas J. Gross, Kristin Duppong-Hurley, Matthew C. Lambert, Michael Epstein, and Amy L. Stevens
Increased resting-state functional connectivity of visual- and cognitive-control brain networks after training in children with reading difficulties, Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, Mark DiFrancesco, Benjamin Kay, Yingying Wang, and Scott K. Holland
Involvement of the right hemisphere in reading comprehension: a DTI study, Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, Yingying Wang, Elena Plante, and Scott K. Holland
Technical Adequacy and Acceptability of Curriculum-Based Measurement and the Measures of Academic Progress, Stacy-Ann A. January and Scott P. Ardoin
White Matter Differences Between Multiple System Atrophy (Parkinsonian Type) and Parkinson’s Disease: A Diffusion Tensor Image Study, L. Ji, Yingying Wang, Nanjing Medical University, and J. Shi
Validation of the Symptoms and Functioning Severity Scale in Residential Group Care, Matthew C. Lambert, Kristin Duppong-Hurley, Thomas J. Gross, Michael Epstein, and Amy L. Stevens
Investigating the Influences of Language Delay and/or Familial Risk for Dyslexia on Brain Structure in 5-Year-Olds, Nora Maria Raschle, Bryce Larkin Chessell Becker, Sara Smith, Lynn Valérie Fehlbaum, Yingying Wang, and Nadine Gaab
Vocabulary Word Instruction for Students Who Read Braille, Mackenzie E. Savaiano, Donald L. Compton, Deborah D. Hatton, and Blair P. Lloyd
Professional Practice and Ethical Issues Related to Physical Restraint and Seclusion in Schools, Brenda Scheuermann, Reece Peterson, Joseph B. Ryan, and Glenna Billingsley
Tolerance of the VocaLog Vocal Monitor by Healthy Persons and Individuals With Parkinson Disease, Jeff Searl and Angela M. Dietsch
Vestibular Dysfunction, Altered Macular Structure and Trait Localization in A/J Inbred Mice, Sarath Vijayakumar, Teresa E. Lever, Jessica Pierce, Xing Zhao, David Bergstrom, Yunxia Wang Lundberg, Timothy A. Jones, and Sherri M. Jones
2014
Amplitude-Integrated EEG and Range-EEG Modulation Associated with Pneumatic Orocutaneous Stimulation in Preterm Infants, Steven M. Barlow, Priya Jegatheesan, Sunshine Weiss, Balaji Govindaswami, Jaehoon Lee, Austin Oder, and Dongli Song
Frequency-Modulated Orocutaneous Stimulation Promotes Non-nutritive Suck Development in Preterm Infants with Respiratory Distress Syndrome or Chronic Lung Disease, Steven M. Barlow, Jaehoon Lee, Jingyan Wang, Austin Oder, Sue Hall, Kendi Knox, Kathleen Weatherstone, and Diane Thompson
Perceptual and instrumental assessments of orofacial muscle tone in dysarthric and normal speakers, Angela M. Dietsch, Nancy Pearl Solomon, Laura A. Sharkey, Joseph R. Duffy, Edythe A. Strand, and Heather M. Clark
The Effect of Barium on Perceptions of Taste Intensity and Palatability, Angela M. Dietsch, Nancy Pearl Solomon, Catriona M. Steele, and Cathy A. Pelletier
The Impact of Interface Design During an Initial High-Technology AAC Experience: A Collective Case Study of People with Aphasia, Aimee R. Dietz, Kristy S.E. Weissling, Julie Griffith, Miechelle L. McKelvey, and Devan Macke
Phonological and lexical influences on phonological awareness in children with specific language impairment and dyslexia, Kelly Farquharson, Tracy M. Centanni, Chelsea E. Franzluebbers, and Tiffany Hogan
Academic Supports and Tutoring, Strategy Brief., Scott Fluke, Ann O'Connor, Jenna Strawhun, and Reece L. Peterson
Supporting Narrative Retells for People With Aphasia Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Photographs or Line Drawings? Text or No Text?, Julie Griffith, Aimee R. Dietz, and Kristy S.E. Weissling
3D Dynamic Visualization of Swallowing from Multi-Slice Computed Tomography, Andrew K. Ho, Mark A. Nicosia, Angela Dietsch, William Pearson, Jana Rieger, Nancy Solomon, Maureen Stone, Yoko Inamoto, Eiichi Saitoh, Sheldon Green, and Sidney Fels
Reading acceleration training changes brain circuitry in children with reading difficulties, Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, Jennifer J. Vannest, Darren Kadis, Nicole Cicchino, Yingying Y. Wang, and Scott K. Holland
Genetics of Peripheral Vestibular Dysfunction: Lessons from Mutant Mouse Strains, Sherri M. Jones and Timothy A. Jones
Treating Myofunctional Disorders: A Multiple-Baseline Study of a New Treatment Using Electropalatography, Alana Mantie-Kozlowski and Kevin M. Pitt
The influence of audibility on speech recognition with nonlinear frequency compression for children and adults with hearing loss, Ryan W. McCreery, Joshua Alexander, Marc A. Brennan, Brenda Hoover, Judy Kopun, and Patricia G. Stelmachowicz
Alternative Schooling Strategy Brief, Emily Moss, Jenna Strawhun, and Reece L. Peterson
Academic Supports & Tutoring, Reece L. Peterson, Ann O'Connor, and Jenna Strawhun
Testing of the VocaLog Vocal Monitor, Jeff Searl and Angela M. Dietsch
Modulation of EEG spectral edge frequency during patterned pneumatic oral stimulation in preterm infants, Dongli Song, Priya Jegatheesan, Sunshine Weiss, Balaji Govindaswami, Jingyan Wang, Jaehoon Lee, Austin Oder, and Steven M. Barlow
Characterization Of Sex-Based Differences In The Mechanical Properties Of Human Finger Glabrous Tissue Using A Fiberoptic Sensor, Lalit Venkatesan and Steven M. Barlow
Comparison of Functional Network Connectivity for Passive-Listening and Active-Response Narrative Comprehension in Adolescents, Yingying Wang and Scott K. Holland
2013
Effects Of Body Position And Sex Group On Tongue Pressure Generation, Angela M. Dietsch, Carmen M. Cirstea, Ed T. Auer, and Jeff P. Searl
Personalizing AAC for People with Aphasia: The Role of Text and Pictures, Aimee R. Dietz, Kristy S.E. Weissling, Julie Griffith, and Miechelle L. McKelvey
Therapeutic Alliance Between Youth and Staff in Residential Group Care: Psychometrics of the Therapeutic Alliance Quality Scale, Kristin Duppong-Hurley, Matthew C. Lambert, Mark Van Ryzin, Justin Sullivan, and Amy Stevens
Bulbar and speech motor assessment in ALS: Challenges and future directions, Jordan R. Green, Yana Yunusova, Mili S. Kuruvilla, Jun Wang, Gary Pattee, Lori Synhorst, Lorne Zinman, and James D. Berry
Supporting Narrative Retells for People with Aphasia using AAC: Photographs or Line Drawings? Text or No Text?, Julie Griffith, Aimee R. Dietz, and Kristy S.E. Weissling
Using Text-to-Speech Reading Support for an Adult With Mild Aphasia and Cognitive Impairment, Judy Harvey, Karen Hux, and Jeffry Snell
Measurement Properties of the Motivation for Youth Treatment Scale with a Residential Group Home Population, Matthew C. Lambert, Kristin Duppong-Hurley, M. Michele Athay Tomlinson, and Amy L. Stevens
ELECTROPALATOGRAPHY AS AN ADJUNCT TO NONSPEECH OROFACIAL MYOFUNCTIONAL DISORDER ASSESSMENTS: A FEASIBILITY STUDY, Alana Mantie-Kozlowski and Kevin M. Pitt
Maximizing Audibility and Speech Recognition with Non-Linear Frequency Compression by Estimating Audible Bandwidth, Ryan W. McCreery, Marc A. Brennan, Brenda Hoover, Judy Kopun, and Patricia G. Stelmachowicz
There is a continued need for empirical data supporting the treatment of people with aphasia in the acute care setting including the use of modified melodic intonation therapy, Miechelle L. McKelvey and Kristy S.E. Weissling
Increases in Cognitive and Linguistic Processing Primarily Account for Increases in Speaking Rate With Age, Ignatius S. B. Nip and Jordan R. Green
Short-Term Effects of Pacifier Texture on NNS in Neurotypical Infants, Austin L. Oder, David L. Stalling, and Steven M. Barlow
Effects of Environmental Stimulation on Infant Vocalizations and Orofacial Dynamics at the Onset of Canonical Babbling, Meredith Poore Harold and Steven M. Barlow
The DSM-5 changes and ADHD: More than a tweak of terms, Brenton Prosser and Robert C. Reid
Family teacher and parent perceptions of youth needs and preparedness for transition upon discharge from residential care, Alexandra L. Trout, Steven Hoffman, Michael Epstein, and Ronald W. Thompson
Sex differences in white matter development during adolescence: A DTI study, Yingying Wang, Chris Adamson, Weihong Yuan, Mekibib Altaye, Anna W. Byars, and Scott K. Holland
Concordance of MEG and fMRI patterns in adolescents during verb generation, Yingying Wang, Scott K. Holland, and Jennifer Vannest
2012
Frequency Modulation and Spatiotemporal Stability of the sCPG in Preterm Infants with RDS, Steven M. Barlow, Mimi Burch, Lalit Venkatesan, Meredith Harold, and Emily Zimmerman
Modification of Perioral Stiffness in Patients With Repaired Cleft Lip and Palate, Steven M. Barlow, Carroll-Ann Trotman, Shin-Ying Chu, and Jaehoon Lee
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Preschool Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale (PreBERS) with Preschool Children with Disabilities, Cynthia J. Cress, Lori Synhorst, Michael Epstein, and Elizabeth Allen
Aberrant Neuromagnetic Activation in the Motor Cortex in Children with Acute Migraine: A Magnetoencephalography Study, Xinyao Guo, Jing Xiang, Yingying Wang, Hope O'Brien, Marielle Kabbouche, Paul Horn, Scott W. Powers, and Andrew D. Hershey
Spatiotemporal Coupling of the Tongue in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Mili S. Kuruvilla, Jordan R. Green, Yana Yunusova, and Kathy Hanford
Is weak oral language associated with poor spelling in school-age children with specific language impairment, dyslexia or both?, Jillian H. McCarthy, Tiffany Hogan, and Hugh W. Catts
A novel fixed-target task to determine articulatory speed constraints in persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Antje Mefferd, Jordan R. Green, and Gary L. Pattee
Endoscopic and Stroboscopic Presentation of the Larynx in Male-to-Female Transsexual Persons, Derek Palmer, Angela M. Dietsch, and Jeff Searl
Distinct developmental profiles in typical speech acquisition, Jennell C. Vick, Thomas F. Campbell, Lawrence D. Shriberg, Jordan R. Green, Hervé Abdi, Heather Leavy Rusiewicz, Lakshmi Venkatesh, and Christopher A. Moore
Augmented input: The effect of visuographic supports on the auditory comprehension of people with chronic aphasia, Sarah E. Wallace, Aimee R. Dietz, Karen Hux, and Kristy S.E. Weissling
Sentence recognition from articulatory movements for silent speech interfaces, Jun Wang, Ashok Samal, Jordan R. Green, and Frank Rudzicz
Whole-Word Recognition from Articulatory Movements for Silent Speech Interfaces, Jun Wang, Ashok Samal, Jordan R. Green, and Frank Rudzicz
Accuracy of perceptual and acoustic methods for the detection of inspiratory loci in spontaneous speech, Yu-Tsai Wang, Ignatius S. B. Nip, Jordan R. Green, Ray D. Kent, Jane Finley Kent, and Cara Ullman
A Kinematic Description of the Temporal Characteristics of Jaw Motion for Early Chewing: Preliminary Findings, Erin M. Wilson, Jordan R. Green, and Gary Weismer
Tongue Movements and Their Acoustic Consequences in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Yana Yunusova, Jordan R. Green, Lauren Greenwood, Jun Wang, Gary L. Pattee, and Lorne Zinman
The Effects of Vestibular Stimulation Rate and Magnitude of Acceleration on Central Pattern Generation for Chest Wall Kinematics in Preterm Infants, Emily Zimmerman and Steven M. Barlow
2011
Communication Support for People with ALS, David R. Beukelman, Susan Fager, and Amy Nordness
Current and Future AAC Research Considerations for Adults with Acquired Cognitive and Communication Impairments, Melanie Fried-Oken, David R. Beukelman, and Karen Hux
Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation changes velopharyngeal control in Parkinson’s disease, Michael J. Hammer, Steven M. Barlow, Kelly E. Lyons, and Rajesh Pahwa
The influence of neighborhood density and word frequency on phoneme awareness in 2nd and 4th grades, Tiffany Hogan, Ryan P. Bowles, Hugh W. Catts, and Holly L. Storkel
Increasing Higher Level Language Skills to Improve Reading Comprehension, Tiffany Hogan, Mindy Sittner Bridges, Laura M. Justice, and Kate Cain
Impact of Computerized “Sounding out” on Spelling Performance of a Child Who Uses AAC: A Preliminary Report, Jillian H McCarthy, David R. Beukelman, and Tiffany Hogan
The co-emergence of cognition, language, and speech motor control in early development: A longitudinal correlation study, Ignatius S. B. Nip, Jordan R. Green, and David Marx
Feasibility of group voice therapy for individuals with Parkinson’s disease, Jeff Searl, Kristel Wilson, Karen Haring, Angela M. Dietsch, Kelly E. Lyons, and Rajesh Pahwa
Quantifying Articulatory Distinctiveness of Vowels, Jun Wang, Jordan R. Green, Ashok Samal, and David B. Marx
Neuromagnetic measures of word processing in bilinguals and monolinguals, Yingying Wang, Jing Xiang, Jennifer Vannest, Tom Holroyd, Daria Narmoneva, Paul Horn, Yinhong Liu, Douglas Rose, Ton deGrauw, and Scott Holland
A Protocol for Comprehensive Assessment of Bulbar Dysfunction in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Yana Yunusova, Jordan R. Green, Jun Wang, Gary Pattee, and Lorne Zinman
2010
Respiratory Changes during Reading in Mandarin-Speaking Adolescents with Prelingual Hearing Impairment, Wei-Chun Che, Yu-Tsai Wang, Hsiu-Jung Lu, and Jordan R. Green
OroSTIFF: Face-referenced measurement of perioral stiffness in health and disease, Shin-Ying Chu, Steven M. Barlow, Douglas Kieweg, and Jaehoon Lee
LIP MOVEMENT EXAGGERATIONS DURING INFANT DIRECTED SPEECH, Jordan R. Green, Ignatius S. B. Nip, Erin M. Wilson, Antje Mefferd, and Yana Yunusova
Laryngeal somatosensory deficits in Parkinson’s disease: implications for speech respiratory and phonatory control, Michael J. Hammer and Steven M. Barlow
Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation changes speech respiratory and laryngeal control in Parkinson's disease, Michael J. Hammer, Steven M. Barlow, Kelly E. Lyons, and Rajesh Pahwa
Age effect on the Gaze Stabilization test, Julie A. Honaker
A Cross-Sectional Comparison of the Effects of Phonotactic Probability and Neighborhood Density on Word Learning by Preschool Children, Jill R. Hoover, Holly L. Storkel, and Tiffany Hogan
Using visual scene displays to create a shared communication space for a person with aphasia, Karen Hux, Megan Buechter, Sarah Wallace, and Kristy S.E. Weissling
Articulatory-To-Acoustic Relations in Response to Speaking Rate and Loudness Manipulations, Antje Mefferd and Jordan R. Green
TAC-Cell Inputs To Human Hand And Lip Induces Shortterm Adaptation Of The Primary Somatosensory Cortex, Lalit Venkatesan, Steven M. Barlow, Mihai Popescu, Anda Popescu, and Edward T. Auer
Vowel Recognition from Continuous Articulatory Movements for Speaker-Dependent Applications, Jun Wang, Jordan R. Green, Ashok Samal, and Tom D. Carrell
Vowel Recognition from Continuous Articulatory Movements for Speaker-Dependent Applications, Jun Wang, Jordan R. Green, Ashok Samal, and Tom D. Carrell
Breath Group Analysis for Reading and Spontaneous Speech in Healthy Adults, Yu-Tsai Wang, Jordan R. Green, Ignatius S. B. Nip, and Ray D. Kent
Accuracy of perceptually based and acoustically based inspiratory loci in reading, Yu-Tsai Wang, Jordan R. Green, Ignatius S. B. Nip, Ray D. Kent, Jane Finley Kent, and Cara Ullman
Kinematics of disease progression in bulbar ALS, Yana Yunusova, Jordan R. Green, Mary J. Lindstrom, Laura J. Ball, Gary L. Pattee, and Lorne Zinman