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Mary Alt

Professor, Speech/Language and Hearing | Department Head, Speech/Language and Hearing | Professor, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP | Professor, Cognitive Science - GIDP | Member of the Graduate Faculty

Speech Language & Hearing Sci

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Collaboration(14)

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Grants(14)

Fostering Underrepresented Employees' Resilience and Zeal for Academic (FUERZA)
Active·2024·$91.8K / $270K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
workplace diversity, employee well-being, education, resilience, professional development
Reading Arizona: An Interprofessional Personnel Training Program to Train Diverse Personnel to Serve Multicultural/Multilingual Children with Disabilities.
Active·2023·$311.8K / $445.5K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
interprofessional training, multicultural children, disability services, personnel training, multilingual children
Advancing Inclusion: Multicultural Multilingual Research for Children with Disabilities (AIMM)
Active·2023·$235.2K / $391.9K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
inclusion, multicultural, multilingual, children, disabilities
Identification of Treatment Parameters that Maximize Language Treatment Efficacy for Children.
Active·2022·$769.6K / $2.5M·
External
Co-Investigator (COI)
language treatment, children, treatment parameters, efficacy, supplement
Identification of treatment parameters that maximize language treatment efficacy for children. TALK Initiative supplement.
Active·2022·$577.2K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
language treatment, children, treatment parameters, efficacy, supplement

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Publications(50)

Recent

Phonological Working Memory and Sentence Production in School-Age Children with Typical Language, Dyslexia, and Comorbid Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder

2024

phonological working memory, sentence production, dyslexia, developmental language disorder, school-age children

Vocabulary Acquisition and Usage for Late Talkers: The Feasibility of a Caregiver-Implemented Telehealth Model

2023

language development, telehealth, caregiver intervention, vocabulary acquisition, late talkers

Harnessing automatic speech recognition to realise Sustainable Development Goals 3, 9, and 17 through interdisciplinary partnerships for children with communication disability

2022

automatic speech recognition, sustainable development goals, interdisciplinary partnerships, communication disability, children

Working Memory Predicts New Word Learning Over and Above Existing Vocabulary and Nonverbal IQ

2022

cognitive development, language acquisition, memory, intelligence, learning

Phonological working memory and central executive function differ in children with typical development and dyslexia

2021

phonological memory, central executive, child development, dyslexia, cognitive function

A Vocabulary Acquisition and Usage for Late Talkers Treatment Efficacy Study: The Effect of Input Utterance Length and Identification of Responder Profiles

2021

language acquisition, speech therapy, treatment efficacy, responder profiles, vocabulary development

Phonological Vulnerability for School-Aged Spanish-English-Speaking Bilingual Children

2021

phonological development, bilingualism, language acquisition, speech sound disorder, educational linguistics

Exploring Input Parameters in an Expressive Vocabulary Treatment With Late Talkers

2020

language development, speech therapy, vocabulary intervention, late talkers, language assessment

Using AAC to unlock communicative potential in late-talking toddlers

2020

aac, late-talking, communicative potential, toddler development, language intervention

Exploring input parameters Alt et al. 2020)

2020

parameter exploration, data analysis, scientific research, algorithm development

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Mary Alt

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Nicole Marrone

Elena Plante

Dean Billheimer

Stephen Cowen

Kate Bunton

Grants(14)

Fostering Underrepresented Employees' Resilience and Zeal for Academic (FUERZA)

Reading Arizona: An Interprofessional Personnel Training Program to Train Diverse Personnel to Serve Multicultural/Multilingual Children with Disabilities.

Advancing Inclusion: Multicultural Multilingual Research for Children with Disabilities (AIMM)

Identification of Treatment Parameters that Maximize Language Treatment Efficacy for Children.

Identification of treatment parameters that maximize language treatment efficacy for children. TALK Initiative supplement.

Publications(50)

Phonological Working Memory and Sentence Production in School-Age Children with Typical Language, Dyslexia, and Comorbid Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder

Vocabulary Acquisition and Usage for Late Talkers: The Feasibility of a Caregiver-Implemented Telehealth Model

Harnessing automatic speech recognition to realise Sustainable Development Goals 3, 9, and 17 through interdisciplinary partnerships for children with communication disability

Working Memory Predicts New Word Learning Over and Above Existing Vocabulary and Nonverbal IQ

Phonological working memory and central executive function differ in children with typical development and dyslexia

A Vocabulary Acquisition and Usage for Late Talkers Treatment Efficacy Study: The Effect of Input Utterance Length and Identification of Responder Profiles

Phonological Vulnerability for School-Aged Spanish-English-Speaking Bilingual Children

Exploring Input Parameters in an Expressive Vocabulary Treatment With Late Talkers

Using AAC to unlock communicative potential in late-talking toddlers

Exploring input parameters Alt et al. 2020)