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Laurence B. Leonard publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Laurence B. Leonard sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 288 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Laurence B. Leonard D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Laurence B. Leonard sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Laurence B. Leonard is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions to developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, occupational therapy, and public health, environmental, and occupational health.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies

Leonard has published extensively in numerous journals. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Autism & Developmental Language Impairments
  • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • PLoS ONE

Notable recent papers by Laurence B. Leonard are:

  • "Retrieval Practice and Word Learning in Children With Specific Language Impairment and Their Typically Developing Peers," published in 2020 in the Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • "A 200-Year History of the Study of Childhood Language Disorders of Unknown Origin: Changes in Terminology," published in 2020 in Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups
  • "After Initial Retrieval Practice, More Retrieval Produces Better Retention Than More Study in the Word Learning of Children With Developmental Language Disorder," published in 2020 in the Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

Other highly cited collaborative papers associated with Leonard's research include:

  • "Evaluation of a 'serious game' on nursing student knowledge and uptake of influenza vaccination," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Moving towards accurate and early prediction of language delay with network science and machine learning approaches," 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Laurence B. Leonard are Patricia Deevy, Jeffrey D. Karpicke, Justin B. Kueser, Eileen Haebig, and Sharon L. Christ.

In 2015, Leonard was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Children with Specific Language Impairment

    Laurence B. Leonard

  • Speed of Processing, Working Memory, and Language Impairment in Children

    Laurence B. Leonard;Susan Ellis Weismer;Carol A. Miller;David J. Francis

  • Speed of processing in children with specific language impairment.

    Carol A. Miller;Robert Kail;Laurence B. Leonard;J. Bruce Tomblin

  • Language learnability and specific language impairment in children

    Laurence B. Leonard

  • Three Accounts of the Grammatical Morpheme Difficulties of English-Speaking Children With Specific Language Impairment

    Laurence B. Leonard;Julia A. Eyer;Lisa M. Bedore;Bernard G. Grela

  • Grammatical morphology deficits in Spanish-speaking children with specific language impairment.

    Lisa M. Bedore;Laurence B. Leonard

  • 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

  • The Role of Speed of Processing, Rapid Naming, and Phonological Awareness in Reading Achievement

    Hugh W. Catts;Matthew Gillispie;Laurence B. Leonard;Robert V. Kail

  • Specific language impairment and grammatical morphology: a discriminant function analysis.

    Lisa M. Bedore;Laurence B. Leonard

  • Do children pick and choose? An examination of phonological selection and avoidance in early lexical acquisition.

    Richard G. Schwartz;Laurence B. Leonard

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

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

  • Speech and Language Impairments in Children : Causes, Characteristics, Intervention and Outcome

    Dorothy V. M. Bishop;Laurence B. Leonard

  • Specific Language Impairment Across Languages.

    Laurence B. Leonard

  • Nonword Repetition and Sentence Repetition as Clinical Markers of Specific Language Impairment: The Case of Cantonese.

    Stephanie F. Stokes;Anita M-Y. Wong;Paul Fletcher;Laurence B. Leonard

  • Sustained attention in children with specific language impairment (SLI).

    Denise A. Finneran;Alexander L. Francis;Laurence B. Leonard

  • Clinical markers for specific language impairment in Italian: The contribution of clitics and non-word repetition.

    Umberta Bortolini;Barbara Arfé;Cristina M. Caselli;Luisa Degasperi

  • Functional Categories in the Grammars of Children With Specific Language Impairment

    Laurence B. Leonard

  • Grammatical morphology and the lexicon in children with specific language impairment.

    Laurence B. Leonard;Carol Miller;Erika Gerber

  • Verb inflections and noun phrase morphology in the spontaneous speech of Spanish-speaking children with specific language impairment

    Lisa M. Bedore;Laurence B. Leonard

  • Specific language impairment in children: A cross-linguistic study

    Laurence B. Leonard;Letizia Sabbadini;Jeanette S. Leonard;Virginia Volterra

  • Speech and language impairments in children

    Dorothy V.M. Bishop;Laurence B. Leonard

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard G. Schwartz
Richard G. Schwartz City University of New York
Marc E. Fey
Marc E. Fey University of Kansas
Stephen Camarata
Stephen Camarata Vanderbilt University
Robert Kail
Robert Kail Purdue University West Lafayette
Jeffrey D. Karpicke
Jeffrey D. Karpicke Purdue University West Lafayette
J. Bruce Tomblin
J. Bruce Tomblin University of Iowa
Lisa M. Bedore
Lisa M. Bedore Temple University
Marilyn A. Nippold
Marilyn A. Nippold University of Oregon
Virginia Volterra
Virginia Volterra National Research Council (CNR)

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