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  1. Predicting Developmental Language Disorder in Bilinguals From Multiple Sources of Evidence: A Decision Tree Approach

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, October 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña, Joseph Hin Yan Lam

  2. Development and Validation of Nomogram-Based Prediction Models for Developmental Language Disorder in Bilingual Children

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Dr Aquiles Iglesias, Joseph Hin Yan Lam, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  3. Relationships Between Home and School Language Exposure and Changes in Bilingual Oral Language Performance From Kindergarten to First Grade

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Joseph Hin Yan Lam, Dr. Ronald B Gillam, Dr. Elizabeth D. Peña

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. “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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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