Tenure-Track Faculty
 | Shelley Gray Ph.D., University of Arizona Email: shelley.gray |
| Research Interests: Research in the Child Language Lab focuses on early literacy development and assessment and treatment of language disorders in preschool and school age children. One line of research is investigating lexical acquisition deficits in preschoolers with specific language impairment (SLI). Our program of research is designed to develop methods for identifying the individual word-learning deficits of young children with SLI, to evaluate prescriptive treatments targeting those deficits, and to investigate the relationship between word learning and alphabet learning, a foundational early reading skill. A second line of research is investigating how best to improve reading success in elementary school by preparing young children to become readers. The first objective is to train preschool teachers and other early childhood professionals in effective literacy techniques. The second objective is to teach families how to support their children's early literacy growth. | |
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