Student Research Grant in Early Childhood Language 1984 - 1997

1997

Awarded $2,000

Kathy J. Jakielski, University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Barbara L. Davis
"Motor Organization in the Acquisition of Consonant Clusters"

1996

Awarded $2,000

Shelley Gray, University of Arizona
Mentor: Linda Swisher
"Vocabulary Deficits in in Children With specific Language Impairment: The Identification Accuracy of Norm-Referenced Tests and a Language-Learning Task"

1995

Awarded $2,000

Linda J. Hesketh, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Mentor: Susan E. Weismer
"Toddlers' Learning of Synonymous Verbs: Is There Evidence for a Mutual Exclusivity Bias?"

1994

No Award

1993

Awarded $1,000

Teresa Ukrainetz McFadden, University of Texas at Austin
"The Conceptual Basis of Emergent Literacy: Children Preserving Stories"

1992

Awarded $1,000

Catherine Laszlo, Portland State University
"Phonological Awareness Skills in Late Talkers"

1991

Awarded $1,000

Susan I. Kemp-Fincham, University of Illinois, Urbana-champaign
"Indices of Sensorimotor Processes in 20 34-Month-Old Toddlers' Phonological Development"

1990

Awarded $1,000

Rita L. Bauersmith, Portland State University
"Story Retelling Skills as an Indicator of Persistent Language Delays in Pre-school Children"

1989

Awarded $1,000

Barbara Byrd Fazio, Indiana University
"Conceptual and Linguistic Factors Associated With Young Language-Impaired Children's Counting Abilities"

1988

Awarded $1,000

Diane Frome Loeb, Purdue University
"The Development of Subject Roles in Normally Developing and Language-Impaired Children"

1987

Awarded $1,000

Barbara J. Kiernan, University of Arizona
"Bilingual and Monolingual Vocabulary Learning by Predominantly Navajo-Speaking, Preschool Children"

1986

Awarded $1,000

Kiyoshi Otomo, University of Washington
"Development of Certain Vowels in Early Meaningful Speech of Children 20 to 32 Months of Age"

1985

Awarded $1,000

Patricia Sorenson, University of Western Ontario
"Facilitating Vocabulary Acquisition in Preschool Language-Impaired Children: An Evaluation of the Informativeness Principle as a Clinical Procedure"

1984

Awarded $1,000

Elizabeth Heublein, University of Colorado
"Analysis of Child Language Use in Natural Conversations"