The Student Research Grant in Early Childhood Language Development supports master's and doctoral students in communication sciences and disorders pursuing research in early childhood language development for a proposed one-year study. This grant supported in part by the Arlene M. and Noel D. Matkin Memorial Fund.
2025
Awarded $2,000 each
- Brittany Ciullo
- PhD Candidate
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Mentor: Jill Hoover
- Participation Matters: Improving Outcomes in Young Children with Communication Disorders through Implementation Science
- Jane Eppstein
- PhD Candidate
- Vanderbilt University
- Mentor: Melanie Schuele
- Syntax Matters: Testing an Intervention that Teaches Preschoolers with Developmental Language Disorder to Produce Subject Relative Clauses
- Nikki Hoopes
- PhD Candidate
- Texas Christian University
- Mentor: Emily Lund
- Age of Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Outcomes on a Language Tasks
- Daniel Ibarra
- PhD Candidate
- Texas Christian University
- Mentor: Emily Lund
- Early Childhood Trajectories and Barriers for Bilingual Children Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: A Mixed-Methods Study
- Tracy Preza
- PhD Candidate
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Mentor: Pamela A. Hadley
- Screening Developmental Language Disorder at Preschool Entry: Evaluating Novel Measures of Grammar and Effortful Sentence Production
2024
Awarded $2,000 each
- McKenzie Cullinan
- PhD Candidate
- University of Texas at Dallas
- Mentor: Pumpki Lei Su
- Using Production Practice to Improve Word Learning in Autistic Children
- Ada López González
- PhD Candidate
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Mentor: Megan Gross
- Caregiver-Implemented Early Language Interventions in Puerto Rico: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Provider and Caregiver Practices and Perspectives to Develop Culturally Responsive Interventions
- Suzanne Stiles
- PhD Candidate
- Vanderbilt University
- Mentor: Stephen Camarata
- Teaching Black American Caregivers to Implement Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) With Their Young Children Developmental Language Disorder: A Pilot Study
2023
Awarded $2,000 each
- Diana Lucia Abarca
- PhD Candidate, Florida State University
- Mentor: Mollie Romano
- Proposal: Supporting Early Intervention Providers to Work With Families of Marginalized Backgrounds Through Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: A Mixed Methods Study
- Olivia Boorom
- PhD Candidate, University of Kansas
- Mentor: Nancy Brady
- Proposal: Understanding How Caregiver Behavior Shapes Reciprocal Communication in Nonspeaking Autistic Children
- Savanna Brittlebank-Douglas
- PhD Candidate, The Pennsylvania State University
- Mentor: Janice Light
- Proposal: Parent Tele-Training to Support Language Development Outcomes in Young Children With Multiple Disabilities
- Emily Jackson
- PhD Candidate, University of Connecticut
- Mentor: Bernard Grela
- Proposal: Exploring Parental Ethnotheories Related to Early Childhood Language Development, Disorders, and Interventions
2022
Awarded $2,000 each
- Lauramarie Pope
- PhD Candidate
- Pennsylvania State University
- Mentor: Janice Light
- Supporting the Early Language Development of Young Children on the Autism Spectrum: Incorporating Augmentative and Alternative Communication into Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions
- Katharine Radville
- PhD Candidate
- MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Mentor: Tiffany Hogan
- The Effects of a Caregiver Training on Developmental Language Disorder
2021
Awarded $2,000 each
- Keysha Martinez-Torres
- PhD Candidate
- Vanderbilt University
- Mentor: Stephen Camarata
- Social Validity of a Teletherapy Parent Training Program for Latinx Families of Children With Autism
- Sarah Lynn Neiling
- PhD Candidate
- The University of Arizona
- Mentor: Mary Alt
- Telehealth and Train-the-Trainer Service Delivery Models for Word-Learning Treatment (VAULT): A Single-Case Experimental Study With Latine Late Talkers
View Student Research Grant in Early Childhood Language Development recipients before 2021 [PDF].