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Elena Plante is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and specializes in research within the field of psychology, with a focus on developmental and educational psychology. Their work spans clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, occupational therapy, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their primary research topics include language development and disorders, reading and literacy development, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, stuttering research and treatment, family and disability support research, child and animal learning development, and assistive technology in communication and mobility.

Frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
  • Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups

Elena Plante has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Alexander Tucci
  • Rebecca Vance
  • John Heilmann
  • Jon F. Miller
  • Nickola Wolf Nelson

Their recent papers include:

  • "Diagnosis of Developmental Language Disorder in Research Studies" (2020), Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • "Assessing Functional Language in School-Aged Children Using Language Sample Analysis" (2020), Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups
  • "Evaluating the Equivalence of Telepractice and Traditional Administration of the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills" (2022), Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
  • "Predictors of Treatment Response for Preschool Children With Developmental Language Disorder" (2020), American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • "Translating Enhanced Conversational Recast to a Telepractice Setting" (2022), Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools

Best Publications

  • Selection of Preschool Language Tests

    Elena Plante;Rebecca Vance

  • Normal fMRI brain activation patterns in children performing a verb generation task.

    Scott K. Holland;Elena Plante;Anna Weber Byars;Richard H. Strawsburg

  • Time course of word identification and semantic integration in spoken language.

    Cyma Van Petten;Seana Coulson;Susan Rubin;Elena Plante

  • Eligibility Criteria for Language Impairment: Is the Low End of Normal Always Appropriate?

    Tammie J. Spaulding;Elena Plante;Kimberly A. Farinella

  • MRI findings in boys with specific language impairment.

    Elena Plante;Linda Swisher;Rebecca Vance;Steven Rapcsak

  • Functional MRI of language lateralization during development in children

    Scott K. Holland;Scott K. Holland;Jennifer Vannest;Marc Mecoli;Lisa M. Jacola

  • The Diagnostic Accuracy of Four Vocabulary Tests Administered to Preschool-Age Children

    Shelley Gray;Elena Plante;Rebecca Vance;Mary Henrichsen

  • Factors that influence lexical and semantic fast mapping of young children with specific language impairment.

    Mary Alt;Elena Plante

  • Memory and executive function in older adults: relationships with temporal and prefrontal gray matter volumes and white matter hyperintensities.

    Cyma Van Petten;Elena Plante;Patrick S.R Davidson;Trudy Y Kuo

  • Criteria for SLI: The Stark and Tallal Legacy and Beyond

    Elena Plante

  • A longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging study of language development in children 5 to 11 years old.

    Jerzy P. Szaflarski;Vincent J. Schmithorst;Vincent J. Schmithorst;Mekibib Altaye;Anna W. Byars

  • Semantic features in fast-mapping: performance of preschoolers with specific language impairment versus preschoolers with normal language.

    Mary Alt;Elena Plante;Marlena Creusere

  • Sustained Selective Attention Skills of Preschool Children With Specific Language Impairment: Evidence for Separate Attentional Capacities

    Tammie J. Spaulding;Elena Plante;Rebecca Vance

  • Practical Aspects of Conducting Large-Scale Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies in Children

    Anna Weber Byars;Scott K. Holland;Richard H. Strawsburg;Wendy Bommer

  • The neural substrates of writing: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Pelagie M. Beeson;Steven Z. Rapcsak;Elena Plante;Jullyn Chargualaf

  • A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation of Verbal Working Memory in Adolescents With Specific Language Impairment

    Susan Ellis Weismer;Elena Plante;Maura Jones;J. Bruce Tomblin

  • Left-handedness and language lateralization in children.

    Jerzy P. Szaflarski;Akila Rajagopal;Mekibib Altaye;Anna W. Byars

  • Variability in the language input to children enhances learning in a treatment context.

    Elena Plante;Trianna Ogilvie;Rebecca Vance;Jessica M. Aguilar

  • Cognitive Modules Utilized for Narrative Comprehension in Children: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

    Vincent J. Schmithorst;Scott K. Holland;Elena Plante

  • MRI findings in the parents and siblings of specifically language-impaired boys.

    Elena Plante

Frequent Co-Authors

LouAnn Gerken
LouAnn Gerken University of Arizona
Rebecca L. Gómez
Rebecca L. Gómez University of Arizona
Cyma Van Petten
Cyma Van Petten Binghamton University
Kenneth Hugdahl
Kenneth Hugdahl University of Bergen
Pélagie M. Beeson
Pélagie M. Beeson University of Arizona
Seana Coulson
Seana Coulson University of California, San Diego
Julius Fridriksson
Julius Fridriksson University of South Carolina
Susan Ellis Weismer
Susan Ellis Weismer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lyn S. Turkstra
Lyn S. Turkstra McMaster University
Audrey Holland
Audrey Holland University of Arizona

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