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Kirrie J. Ballard

Kirrie J. Ballard

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Psychology

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46
Citations
7276
World Ranking
6476
National Ranking
381

Overview

Kirrie J. Ballard is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in psychology, medicine, and neuroscience. Their work spans several key areas within these disciplines, focusing on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology, with additional contributions in social psychology, speech and hearing, and artificial intelligence.

The primary topics explored in Ballard's research involve language development and disorders, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, and dysphagia assessment and management. Additional focal points include reading and literacy development, phonetics and phonology research, tracheal and airway disorders, and assistive technology in communication and mobility.

Ballard's recent publications highlight a sustained engagement with speech and language challenges. Notable papers include:

  • "Behavioral Treatment for Speech and Language in Primary Progressive Aphasia and Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech: A Systematic Review" (2023, Neuropsychology Review)
  • "A Longitudinal Evaluation of Tablet-Based Child Speech Therapy with Apraxia World" (2021, ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing)
  • "Differential Diagnosis of Childhood Apraxia of Speech Compared to Other Speech Sound Disorders: A Systematic Review" (2020, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology)
  • "A Simple 3-Parameter Model for Examining Adaptation in Speech and Voice Production" (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "Genetic aetiologies for childhood speech disorder: novel pathways co-expressed during brain development" (2022, Molecular Psychiatry)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ballard include Fiona Kumfor, Hans Bogaardt, Penelope Monroe, Beena Ahmed, and Elizabeth Murray. These collaborations reflect a network of research partnerships primarily centered around topics in speech and language pathology and related psychological fields.

Ballard has published repeatedly in several academic journals, with significant contributions to the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other recurring publication venues include the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Head & Neck, and the International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders.

  • International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • Head & Neck
  • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders

The scope and integration of Ballard's work underscore a broad interdisciplinary approach combining insights across psychology, neuroscience, and clinical speech-language research.

Best Publications

  • Principles of Motor Learning in Treatment of Motor Speech Disorders

    Edwin Maas;Donald A. Robin;Shannon N. Austermann Hula;Skott E. Freedman

  • Subtypes of progressive aphasia: application of the International Consensus Criteria and validation using β-amyloid imaging.

    Cristian E. Leyton;Victor L. Villemagne;Sharon Savage;Kerryn E. Pike;Kerryn E. Pike

  • Differential Diagnosis of Children with Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech

    Elizabeth Murray;Patricia McCabe;Robert Heard;Kirrie J. Ballard

  • Speech, Prosody, and Voice Characteristics of a Mother and Daughter With a 7;13 Translocation Affecting FOXP2

    Lawrence D. Shriberg;Kirrie J. Ballard;J. Bruce Tomblin;Joseph R. Duffy

  • A treatment for dysprosody in childhood apraxia of speech.

    Kirrie J. Ballard;Donald A. Robin;Patricia McCabe;Jeannie McDonald

  • A systematic review of treatment outcomes for children with childhood apraxia of speech.

    Elizabeth Murray;Patricia McCabe;Kirrie J. Ballard

  • Influence of order of stimulus presentation on speech motor learning: A principled approach to treatment for apraxia of speech

    Taresa R. Knock;Kirrie J. Ballard;Donald A. Robin;Richard A. Schmidt

  • Understanding the nature of apraxia of speech: Theory, analysis, and treatment

    Kirrie J. Ballard;Jay P. Granier;Donald A. Robin

  • Patterns of language decline in non-fluent primary progressive aphasia

    C. K.. Thompson;K. J. Ballard;M. E. Tait;S. Weintraub

  • A systematic literature review of neuroimaging research on developmental stuttering between 1995 and 2016.

    Andrew C. Etchell;Andrew C. Etchell;Oren Civier;Kirrie J. Ballard;Paul F. Sowman

  • Treatment for Acquired Apraxia of Speech: A Systematic Review of Intervention Research Between 2004 and 2012

    Kirrie J. Ballard;Julie L. Wambaugh;Joseph R. Duffy;Claire Layfield

  • Apraxia of Speech and Phonological Errors in the Diagnosis of Nonfluent/Agrammatic and Logopenic Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia

    Karen Croot;Kirrie Ballard;Cristian E. Leyton;John R. Hodges

  • A Randomized Controlled Trial for Children With Childhood Apraxia of Speech Comparing Rapid Syllable Transition Treatment and the Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme–Third Edition

    Elizabeth Murray;Patricia McCabe;Kirrie J. Ballard

  • Training and Generalized Production of wh- and NP-Movement Structures in Agrammatic Aphasia

    Cynthia K. Thompson;Lewis P. Shapiro;Kirrie J. Ballard;Beverly J. Jacobs

  • Effects of Feedback Frequency and Timing on Acquisition, Retention, and Transfer of Speech Skills in Acquired Apraxia of Speech.

    Shannon N. Austermann Hula;Donald A. Robin;Edwin Maas;Kirrie J. Ballard

  • Treatment and Generalization of Complex Sentence Production in Agrammatism

    Kirrie J. Ballard;Cynthia K. Thompson

  • Paediatric speech-language pathology service delivery: An exploratory survey of Australian parents

    Leanne Ruggero;Patricia McCabe;Kirrie J. Ballard;Natalie Munro

  • Phonologic errors as a clinical marker of the logopenic variant of PPA

    Cristian E. Leyton;Kirrie J. Ballard;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges

  • Logopenic and Nonfluent Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia Are Differentiated by Acoustic Measures of Speech Production

    Kirrie J. Ballard;Sharon Savage;Cristian E. Leyton;Adam P. Vogel

  • The role of syntactic complexity in training wh- movement structures in agrammatic aphasia: Optimal order for promoting generalization

    Cynthia K. Thompson;Kirrie J. Ballard;Lewis P. Shapiro

  • Influence of order of stimulus presentation on speech motor learning

    Taresa R. Knock;Kirrie J. Ballard;Donald A. Robin;Richard A. Schmidt

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Piguet
Olivier Piguet University of Sydney
Fiona Kumfor
Fiona Kumfor University of Sydney
Cynthia K. Thompson
Cynthia K. Thompson Northwestern University
Malcolm R. McNeil
Malcolm R. McNeil University of Pittsburgh
Joseph R. Duffy
Joseph R. Duffy Mayo Clinic
Michael Hornberger
Michael Hornberger University of East Anglia
Lyndsey Nickels
Lyndsey Nickels Macquarie University
Muireann Irish
Muireann Irish University of Sydney
Glenda M. Halliday
Glenda M. Halliday University of Sydney
Jeffrey C. Murray
Jeffrey C. Murray University of Iowa

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