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31
Citations
8448
World Ranking
11050
National Ranking
5762

Overview

Keith E. Nelson is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily centers on psychology, with a particular focus on developmental and educational psychology. The scientist's main topics of work involve language development and disorders.

The publication record includes a paper titled EDUCATIONAL ADVANCES ACROSS ALL LANGUAGE DOMAINS: RESULTS AND EXTENSIONS FROM THE DYNAMIC TRICKY MIX MODEL, published in 2022 in the journal Psychological applications and trends. This journal is also the only frequently appearing publication venue for their work.

Keith E. Nelson has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Anne Van Kleeck
  • Gina Conti-Ramsden
  • Catherine E. Snow
  • Zita Réger
  • Carolyn E. Johnson

In addition to journal publications, Nelson has contributed to book literature through at least one publication with Psychology Press eBooks. A notable work is the book titled Children's Language, released in 2021, which has garnered citations reflecting its engagement within the field.

Their academic output spans fields related to both fundamental and applied psychology concerning language acquisition and its disorders. The research combines theoretical and educational approaches aimed at understanding language development across different domains.

Best Publications

  • Promoting Academic and Social‐Emotional School Readiness: The Head Start REDI Program

    Karen L. Bierman;Celene E. Domitrovich;Robert L. Nix;Scott D. Gest

  • The Development of Cognitive Skills and Gains in Academic School Readiness for Children from Low-Income Families.

    Janet A. Welsh;Robert L. Nix;Clancy Blair;Karen L. Bierman

  • Children's language

    Keith E. Nelson;Anne Van Kleeck;Gina Conti-Ramsden;Catherine E. Snow

  • Increasing reading and communication skills in children with autism through an interactive multimedia computer program

    Mikael Heimann;Keith E. Nelson;Tomas Tjus;Christopher Gillberg

  • Facilitating children's syntax acquisition

    Keith E. Nelson

  • Comparison of conversational-recasting and imitative procedures for training grammatical structures in children with specific language impairment.

    Stephen M. Camarata;Keith E. Nelson;Mary N. Camarata

  • Syntax Acquisition: Impact of Experimental Variation in Adult Verbal Interaction with the Child.

    Keith E. Nelson;Gaye Carskaddon;John D. Bonvillian

  • Effects of imitative and conversational recasting treatment on the acquisition of grammar in children with specific language impairment and younger language-normal children

    Keith Nelson;Stephen M. Camarata;Janet Agnes Welsh;Laura Butkovsky

  • Recasting and related conversational techniques for triggering syntactic advances by young children

    Nancy D. Baker;Keith E. Nelson

  • The young child's development of sentence comprehension: influence of event probability, nonverbal context, syntactic form, and strategies.

    Hans Strohner;Keith E. Nelson

  • Neonatal imitation of tongue protrusion and mouth opening: Methodological aspects and evidence of early individual differences

    Mikael Heimann;Keith E. Nelson;Joseph Schaller

  • The Many faces of imitation in language learning

    Gisela E. Speidel;Keith E. Nelson

  • Temperament and language: Relations from toddlerhood to middle childhood.

    Cheryl L. Slomkowski;Keith Nelson;Judy Dunn;Robert Plomin

  • Language delays of impoverished preschool children in relation to early academic and emotion recognition skills

    Keith E. Nelson;Janet A. Welsh;Elisabeth M. Vance Trup;Mark T. Greenberg

  • Treatment efficiency as a function of target selection in the remediation of child language disorders.

    Stephen M. Camarata;Keith E. Nelson

  • The Young Child's Development of Sentence Comprehension: Influence of Event Probability, Nonverbal Context, Syntactic Form, and Strategies

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  • Sign Language Acquisition in a Mute Autistic Boy

    John D. Bonvillian;Keith E. Nelson

  • Strategies for first language teaching.

    Keith E. Nelson

  • Idiom, Syntax, and Advanced Theory of Mind Abilities in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Elisabeth M. Whyte;Keith E. Nelson;K. Suzanne Scherf

  • Trajectories of pragmatic and nonliteral language development in children with autism spectrum disorders.

    Elisabeth M. Whyte;Keith E. Nelson

  • Children's Language, I

    Campbell Leaper;Keith Nelson

Frequent Co-Authors

Mikael Heimann
Mikael Heimann Linköping University
Stephen Camarata
Stephen Camarata Vanderbilt University
Stephen M. Kosslyn
Stephen M. Kosslyn Harvard University
Jerker Rönnberg
Jerker Rönnberg Linköping University
Mary Rudner
Mary Rudner Linköping University
Karen L. Bierman
Karen L. Bierman Pennsylvania State University
Mark T. Greenberg
Mark T. Greenberg Pennsylvania State University
Clancy Blair
Clancy Blair New York University
Gina Conti-Ramsden
Gina Conti-Ramsden University of Manchester
Scott D. Gest
Scott D. Gest University of Virginia

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