Lillywhite Building 1000 Old Main Hill, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-1000, Phone: 435-797-1375, FAX: 435-797-0221
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Ron Gillam, Ph.D.;
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Education
PhD, Speech and Hearing Sciences
Indiana University, 1989
MS, Communication Disorders
Colorado State University, 1979
BS, Communicative Disorders
Colorado State University, 1977
Courses Typically Taught
COMD 6230 - Introduction to Research in Communication Disorders
SpEd 7810 - Evidence-Based Practices in Disability Disciplines
Area of Specialty
Psycholinguistics, Assessment and intervention of language and literacy abilities in school-age children, Basic and Applied Research
Projects and Grants
Co-Principal Investigator and Site PI. Diagnostic Markers of Language Impairment in Bilinguals. National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (with Elizabeth Peña, PI, and Lisa Bedore, Co-PI). 1/15/06 – 12/30/10 - $3,160,578
Publications
Gillam, R.B., Logan, K.L., & Pearson, N. (in press). Test of Childhood Stuttering. Austin, TX: PRO-ED.
Gillam, R. B., Montgomery, J.M., & Gillam, S.L. (in press). Attention and memory in children with language disorders. In Schwartz, R. (Ed.), Handbook of Language Disorders. New York: Guilford.
*Hayward, D. V., Schneider, P. & Gillam, R.B. (in press). Age and task related effects on young children’s understanding of a complex picture story. Alberta Journal for Educational Research.
*Eisenberg, S.N., Ukrainetz, T.A., Gillam, R.B., Kadaravek, J.M., & Justice, L.M. (in press). Noun Phrase Elaboration in Children’s Spoken Stories, Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools.
Petersen, D.B., Gillam, S.L., & Gillam, R.B. (in press). Emerging Procedures in Narrative Assessment: The Index of Narrative Complexity. Topics in Language Disorders.
*Gillam, R.B., Loeb, D.F., Hoffman, L.M., Bohman, T., Champlin, C., Thibodeau, L., Widen, J., Brandl, L., & Friel-Patti, S. (2008). The Efficacy of Fast ForWord-Language Intervention in School-Age Children with Language Impairment: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research, 51, 97-119.
*Cirrin, F., & Gillam, R.B. (2008). Language intervention practices with school-age children with spoken language impairments: A systematic review. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 39, 1 (Supplement), S110-S137.
*White, A.W., & Gillam, R.B. (2007). Brief report: Immediate memory for movement sequences in children with and without language impairment. Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, 31, 186-193.
* Hayward, D., Gillam, R., & Lien, P. (2007). Retelling a script-based story: Do children with and without language impairments focus on script and story elements? American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 16, 235-245.
*Peña, E.D., Resendiz, M., & Gillam, R.B. (2007). The role of clinical judgments of modifiability in the diagnosis of language impairment. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 8, 1-14.
Professional Organizations
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
