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Karla K. McGregor

Karla K. McGregor

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Psychology

D-Index
44
Citations
7744
World Ranking
6985
National Ranking
3782

Overview

Karla K. McGregor is affiliated with Boys Town in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Psychology, with significant contributions in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health, Clinical Psychology, and Education.

Their main topics of study encompass Language Development and Disorders, Reading and Literacy Development, Infant Development and Preterm Care, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Family and Disability Support Research, Child and Animal Learning Development, and Child Development and Digital Technology.

Notable recent papers include:

  • How We Fail Children With Developmental Language Disorder, 2020, Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
  • Developmental Language Disorder: Applications for Advocacy, Research, and Clinical Service, 2020, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups
  • The word learning profile of adults with developmental language disorder, 2020, Autism & Developmental Language Impairments
  • Sustained Attention in Developmental Language Disorder and Its Relation to Working Memory and Language, 2020, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Abilities and Disabilities Among Children With Developmental Language Disorder, 2023, Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools

Frequent coauthors in their work include Nichole Eden, Timothy Arbisi-Kelm, Amanda Owen Van Horne, Ron Pomper, and Maura Curran.

McGregor's research has appeared in several publication venues repeatedly. These include:

  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
  • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders

Best Publications

  • Morphological Deficits in Children With Specific Language Impairment: The Status of Features in the Underlying Grammar

    Laurence B. Leonard;M. Cristina Caselli;Umberta Bortolini;Karla K. McGregor

  • Semantic Representation and Naming in Children With Specific Language Impairment

    Karla K. McGregor;Robyn M. Newman;Renée M. Reilly;Nina C. Capone

  • Grammatical morphology and speech perception in children with specific language impairment.

    Laurence B. Leonard;Karla K. McGregor;George D. Allen

  • Children with Developmental Language Impairment Have Vocabulary Deficits Characterized by Limited Breadth and Depth

    Karla K. McGregor;Jacob Oleson;Alison Bahnsen;Dawna Duff

  • Gesture development: a review for clinical and research practices.

    Nina C. Capone;Karla K. McGregor

  • Lexical–Semantic Organization in Children With Specific Language Impairment

    Li Sheng;Karla K. McGregor

  • Semantic representation and naming in young children.

    Karla K. McGregor;Rena M. Friedman;Renée M. Reilly;Robyn M. Newman

  • How We Fail Children with Developmental Language Disorder.

    Karla K. McGregor;Karla K. McGregor

  • Early lexical development in English- and Korean-speaking children: language-general and language-specific patterns

    Mikyong Kim;Karla K. McGREGOR;Cynthia K. Thompson

  • The Effect of Semantic Representation on Toddlers' Word Retrieval

    Nina C. Capone;Karla K. McGregor

  • Associations between syntax and the lexicon among children with or without ASD and language impairment.

    Karla K. McGregor;Amanda J. Berns;Amanda J. Owen;Sarah A. Michels

  • The University Experiences of Students with Learning Disabilities.

    Karla K. McGregor;Natalie Langenfeld;Sam Van Horne;Jacob Oleson

  • The nature of word-finding errors of preschoolers with and without word-finding deficits.

    Karla K. McGregor

  • Lexical–Semantic Organization in Bilingual Children: Evidence From a Repeated Word Association Task

    Li Sheng;Karla K. McGregor;Viorica Marian

  • Assistive technology interventions for adolescents and adults with learning disabilities

    Bogi Perelmutter;Karla K. McGregor;Katherine R. Gordon

  • On the relation between mental representation and naming in a child with specific language impairment

    Karla K. McGregor;Alison Appel

  • Socio-Pragmatics and Attention: Contributions to Gesturally Guided Word Learning in Toddlers

    Amy E. Booth;Karla K. McGregor;Katharina J. Rohlfing

  • Subject pronoun and article omissions in the speech of children with specific language impairment: a phonological interpretation.

    Karla K. McGregor;Laurence B. Leonard

  • Teachers and laypersons discern quality differences between narratives produced by children with or without SLI.

    Robyn M. Newman;Karla K. McGregor

  • Object and Action Naming in Children With Specific Language Impairment

    Li Sheng;Karla K. McGregor

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence B. Leonard
Laurence B. Leonard Purdue University West Lafayette
Rebecca L. Gómez
Rebecca L. Gómez University of Arizona
Sandra R. Waxman
Sandra R. Waxman Northwestern University
LouAnn Gerken
LouAnn Gerken University of Arizona
Viorica Marian
Viorica Marian Northwestern University
Richard G. Schwartz
Richard G. Schwartz City University of New York
Tiffany P. Hogan
Tiffany P. Hogan MGH Institute of Health Professions
James R. Booth
James R. Booth Vanderbilt University
Cynthia K. Thompson
Cynthia K. Thompson Northwestern University

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