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  1. Measuring the Effects of Cognitive Capacity on Sentence Comprehension: Evidence From Elementary School-Age Children

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, September 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam

  2. Validation of the Mediated Learning Observation Instrument Among Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder in Dynamic Assessment

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, May 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Joseph Hin Yan Lam

  3. Contextualized, Multicomponent Language Instruction: From Theory to Randomized Controlled Trial

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Philip Capin, Sharon Vaughn, Sandra Gillam

  4. Evaluating the Efficacy of a Narrative Language Intervention for Bilingual Students

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, October 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Philip Capin, Sarai Holbrook, Sandra Gillam

  5. Enhancing Syntactic Knowledge in School-Age Children With Developmental Language Disorder: The Promise of Syntactic Priming

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, September 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam

  6. Improving oral and written narration and reading comprehension of children at-risk for language and literacy difficulties: Results of a randomized clinical trial.

    Article • Journal of Educational Psychology, September 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam

  7. Online Administration of the Test of Narrative Language–Second Edition: Psychometrics and Considerations for Remote Assessment

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Sandra Gillam, Sharon Vaughn, Philip Capin

  8. A New Memory Perspective on the Sentence Comprehension Deficits of School-Age Children With Developmental Language Disorder: Implications for Theory, Assessment, and Intervention

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam

  9. The Use of Structural Priming and Focused Recasts to Facilitate the Production of Subject- and Object-Focused Relative Clauses by School-Age Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, November 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Rebekah Wada, Sandra Gillam

  10. A Comparison of the Storage-Only Deficit and Joint Mechanism Deficit Hypotheses of the Verbal Working Memory Storage Capacity Limitation of Children With Developmental Language Disorder

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2019, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Sarah Schwartz

  11. The Use of Dynamic Assessment for the Diagnosis of Language Disorders in Bilingual Children: A Meta-Analysis

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2019, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Rebekah Wada

  12. Cognitive predictors of sentence comprehension in children with and without developmental language disorder: Implications for assessment and treatment

    Article • International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Sandra Gillam

  13. Structural Relationship Between Cognitive Processing and Syntactic Sentence Comprehension in Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Sarah Schwartz

  14. Cognitive Predictors of Spoken Word Recognition in Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorders

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam

  15. “Whatdunit?” Sentence Comprehension Abilities of Children With SLI: Sensitivity to Word Order in Canonical and Noncanonical Structures

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, September 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam

  16. Syntactic Versus Memory Accounts of the Sentence Comprehension Deficits of Specific Language Impairment: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2016, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam

  17. Utility of a Language Screening Measure for Predicting Risk for Language Impairment in Bilinguals

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2015, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Dr. Ronald B Gillam

  18. Narrative Intervention for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2015, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Sandra Gillam, Daphne Hartzheim

  19. Dynamic Assessment of Narrative Ability in English Accurately Identifies Language Impairment in English Language Learners

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Dr. Ronald B Gillam

  20. Classroom-Based Narrative and Vocabulary Instruction: Results of an Early-Stage, Nonrandomized Comparison Study

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, July 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Sandra Gillam

  21. Improving Clinical Services: Be Aware of Fuzzy Connections Between Principles and Strategies

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Sandra Gillam

  22. Identification of Specific Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: I. Assessment in English

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2013, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Dr. Ronald B Gillam

  23. Language Outcomes of Contextualized and Decontextualized Language Intervention: Results of an Early Efficacy Study

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, July 2012, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Sandra Gillam

  24. Speech Disfluency in School-Age Children’s Conversational and Narrative Discourse

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 2012, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam

  25. Concurrent and Construct Validity of Oral Language Measures With School-Age Children With Specific Language Impairment

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2011, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Jayne Brandel

  26. Content and Form in the Narratives of Children With Specific Language Impairment

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2011, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Dr. Judith R Johnston, Megan Wood Pagonis

  27. Risk for Poor Performance on a Language Screening Measure for Bilingual Preschoolers and Kindergarteners

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, November 2011, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Dr. Ronald B Gillam