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  1. Speech Intervention for Children With Cleft Palate Using Principles of Motor Learning

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

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr Alison A Purcell

  2. Dynamic Assessment for Children With Communication Disorders: A Systematic Scoping Review and Framework

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, July 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Claire King Bamford, Elise Baker

  3. A Developmental Approach to Assessing and Treating Agrammatic Aphasia

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, May 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Bronwen Dyson

  4. A Longitudinal Evaluation of Tablet-Based Child Speech Therapy with Apraxia World

    Article • ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  5. Differential Diagnosis of Childhood Apraxia of Speech Compared to Other Speech Sound Disorders: A Systematic Review

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, January 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Edwin Maas, Dr Elizabeth J Murray, Jenya Iuzzini-Seigel, Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  6. Supporting Children With Speech Sound Disorders During COVID-19 Restrictions: Technological Solutions

    Article • Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, December 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Professor Sharynne McLeod, Michelle Brown

  7. Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Connectivity Between Semantic and Phonological Regions of Interest May Inform Language Targets in Aphasia

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, September 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  8. Preliminary Results From a Longitudinal Study of a Tablet-Based Speech Therapy Game

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  9. Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition for Child Speech Therapy Applications

    Article • October 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  10. Bringing advanced speech processing technology to the clinical management of speech disorders

    Article • International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  11. Speech-driven mobile games for speech therapy: User experiences and feasibility

    Article • International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  12. Segmental and prosodic variability on repeated polysyllabic word production in acquired apraxia of speech plus aphasia

    Article • Aphasiology, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Tricia McCabe, Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  13. Clinically Available Assessment Measures for Lingual and Labial Somatosensation in Healthy Adults: Normative Data and Test Reliability

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Nicole Etter

  14. Telehealth delivery of Rapid Syllable Transitions (ReST) treatment for childhood apraxia of speech

    Article • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, May 2016, Wiley

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr Tricia McCabe

  15. Ultrasound visual feedback in articulation therapy following partial glossectomy

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, May 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr Tricia McCabe

  16. Syntactic comprehension deficits across the FTD-ALS continuum

    Article • Neurobiology of Aging, May 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  17. Primary progressive aphasia: conceptual evolution and challenges

    Article • Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics, April 2016, Dove Medical Press

    Dr Cristian E Leyton, Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  18. Divergent Network Patterns of Amyloid-β Deposition in Logopenic and Amnestic Alzheimer’s Disease Presentations

    Article • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, January 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  19. New method for diagnosing acquired apraxia of speech

    Article • Neuropsychologia, January 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Professor Mark Halaki

  20. Development of a Remote Therapy Tool for Childhood Apraxia of Speech

    Article • ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, November 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  21. Childhood Apraxia of Speech RCT

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

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr Elizabeth J Murray, Dr Tricia McCabe

  22. Is the logopenic-variant of primary progressive aphasia a unitary disorder?

    Article • Cortex, June 2015, Elsevier

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  23. Tabby Talks: An automated tool for the assessment of childhood apraxia of speech

    Article • Speech Communication, June 2015, Elsevier

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  24. Apraxia of speech systematic review

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

    Ph.D. Joseph R Duffy, Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr. Julie L Wambaugh, DR. Malcolm R McNeil, Edwin Maas

  25. Persistent Speech Sound Disorder in a 22-Year-Old Male: Communication, Educational, Socio-Emotional, and Vocational Outcomes

    Article • Perspectives on School-Based Issues, April 2015, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  26. Differential Diagnosis of Children with Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech

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

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr Elizabeth J Murray, Dr Tricia McCabe

  27. Altered resting-state network connectivity in stroke patients with and without apraxia of speech

    Article • NeuroImage Clinical, January 2015, Elsevier

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  28. Speech and swallow rehabilitation following partial glossectomy: A systematic review

    Article • International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, December 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr Tricia McCabe

  29. Classification of lexical stress patterns using deep neural network architecture

    Article • December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  30. Retrogaming as visual feedback for speech therapy

    Article • November 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  31. Speech invaders & yak-man

    Article • November 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  32. Behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging studies of acquired apraxia of speech

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, November 2014, Frontiers

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  33. Cancers of the Tongue and Floor of Mouth: Five-Year File Audit Within the Acute Phase

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, November 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr Tricia McCabe

  34. Flappy voice

    Article • October 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  35. Rapid Syllable Transitions (ReST) treatment for Childhood Apraxia of Speech: The effect of lower dose-Frequency

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, September 2014, Elsevier

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr Tricia McCabe

  36. A Systematic Review of Treatment Outcomes for Children With Childhood Apraxia of Speech

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr Elizabeth J Murray, Dr Tricia McCabe

  37. Orthographically sensitive treatment for dysprosody in children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech using ReST intervention

    Article • Developmental Neurorehabilitation, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr Tricia McCabe

  38. An acoustic measure of lexical stress differentiates aphasia and aphasia plus apraxia of speech after stroke

    Article • Aphasiology, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  39. Logopenic and Nonfluent Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia Are Differentiated by Acoustic Measures of Speech Production

    Article • PLOS One, February 2014, PLOS

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  40. Phonological encoding in apraxia of speech and aphasia

    Article • Aphasiology, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Edwin Maas

  41. Bringing words back to mind – Improving word production in semantic dementia

    Article • Cortex, July 2013, Elsevier

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  42. Shaping questions for the next decade: Listening to clients, parents, and clinicians

    Article • International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  43. sPeAK-MAN

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  44. Architecture of an automated therapy tool for childhood apraxia of speech

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  45. Developmental Trajectory for Production of Prosody: Lexical Stress Contrastivity in Children Ages 3 to 7 Years and in Adults

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2012, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Professor Jan van Doorn, Joanne Arciuli

  46. Automatic classification of unequal lexical stress patterns using machine learning algorithms

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  47. A neural network based lexical stress pattern classifier

    Article • Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum Proceedings, October 2012, QScience

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  48. Bilingual Children With Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip and/or Palate: Language and Memory Skills

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2012, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr Alison A Purcell

  49. Apraxia of Speech and Phonological Errors in the Diagnosis of Nonfluent/Agrammatic and Logopenic Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2012, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  50. A comparison of two treatments for childhood apraxia of speech: methods and treatment protocol for a parallel group randomised control trial

    Article • BMC Pediatrics, August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr Tricia McCabe

  51. Training Production of Lexical Stress in Typically Developing Children Using Orthographically Biased Stimuli and Principles of Motor Learning

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2012, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr Tricia McCabe, Joanne Arciuli

  52. Paediatric speech-language pathology service delivery: An exploratory survey of Australian parents

    Article • International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, April 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr Tricia McCabe

  53. Visual feedback of acoustic data for speech therapy

    Article • January 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  54. Communication and cognition profiles in parents of children with nonsyndromic cleft lip and/or palate

    Article • Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, July 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  55. Treatment in Childhood Apraxia

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2010, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr. Donald A Robin, Dr Tricia McCabe

  56. CE Introduction

    Article • Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders, October 2010, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  57. Promising Approaches to Treatment of Apraxia of Speech: Preliminary Evidence and Directions for the Future

    Article • Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders, October 2010, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  58. Neural control of the lips differs for young and older adults following a perturbation

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, September 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  59. When is Progressive Aphasia Due to Alzheimer's Disease? A PIB-PET Study

    Article • Alzheimer s & Dementia, July 2010, Elsevier

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  60. Language Features in a Mother and Daughter of a Chromosome 7;13 Translocation InvolvingFOXP2

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2009, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  61. Effects of Feedback Frequency and Timing on Acquisition, Retention, and Transfer of Speech Skills in Acquired Apraxia of Speech

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2008, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Edwin Maas

  62. Motor programming in apraxia of speech

    Article • Brain and Language, August 2008, Elsevier

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Edwin Maas

  63. Principles of Motor Learning in Treatment of Motor Speech Disorders

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2008, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Edwin Maas

  64. Treating control of voicing in apraxia of speech with variable practice

    Article • Aphasiology, December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Edwin Maas

  65. Speech, Prosody, and Voice Characteristics of a Mother and Daughter With a 7;13 Translocation Affecting FOXP2

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2006, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  66. Linguistic Specific Treatment: Just for Broca's aphasia?

    Article • Aphasiology, September 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  67. Assessment of AOS for Treatment Planning

    Article • Seminars in Speech and Language, January 2002, Thieme Publishing Group

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  68. Principles of Motor Learning and Treatment for AOS

    Article • Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders, December 2001, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  69. Age-Related Changes in Motor Control During Articulator Visuomotor Tracking

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2001, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  70. Response generalization in apraxia of speech treatments: taking another look

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, January 2001, Elsevier

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  71. Understanding the nature of apraxia of speech: Theory, analysis, and treatment

    Article • Aphasiology, October 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  72. Influence of order of stimulus presentation on speech motor learning: A principled approach to treatment for apraxia of speech

    Article • Aphasiology, May 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard

  73. Treatment and Generalization of Complex Sentence Production in Agrammatism

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 1999, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr. Cynthia Thompson

  74. Agrammatic Aphasic Subjects' Comprehension of Subject and Object ExtractedWhQuestions

    Article • Brain and Language, May 1999, Elsevier

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr. Cynthia Thompson

  75. The role of syntactic complexity in training wh-movement structures in agrammatic aphasia: Optimal order for promoting generalization

    Article • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, November 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr. Cynthia Thompson

  76. Training and Generalized Production of wh - and NP-Movement Structures in Agrammatic Aphasia

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 1997, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr. Cynthia Thompson

  77. Developmental motor speech disorders

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Prof Kirrie J Ballard, Dr Tricia McCabe