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Pamela Claire Snow

Pamela Claire Snow

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Psychology

D-Index
43
Citations
9362
World Ranking
7188
National Ranking
420

Overview

Pamela Claire Snow is affiliated with La Trobe University in Australia and has an extensive body of research primarily addressing psychological and social scientific aspects of language and literacy development. Their work spans several fields including psychology, social sciences, and education, with a strong focus on developmental and educational psychology along with clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

The research topics covered in Pamela Snow's publications include reading and literacy development, language development and disorders, child development and digital technology, family and disability support research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child abuse and trauma, as well as educational and psychological assessments.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "The Role of Background Knowledge in Reading Comprehension: A Critical Review" (2021) published in Reading Psychology
  • "SOLAR: The Science of Language and Reading" (2020) published in Child Language Teaching and Therapy
  • "Teacher Knowledge of Oral Language and Literacy Constructs: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Professional Learning Intervention" (2020) published in Scientific Studies of Reading
  • "Oral Language and Emergent Literacy Strategies Used by Australian Early Childhood Teachers During Shared Book Reading" (2022) published in Early Childhood Education Journal
  • "The oral language and emergent literacy skills of preschoolers: Early childhood teachers' self-reported role, knowledge and confidence" (2022) published in International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders

Frequent coauthors in their work include Tanya Serry, Tessa Weadman, Lorraine Hammond, Patricia Eadie, and Beth Shingles. Collaborative efforts with these researchers have contributed to the breadth of investigation into literacy, oral language development, and education-based topics.

Their research has been frequently published in venues such as the Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, Child Language Teaching and Therapy, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, and OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University).

Best Publications

  • Phase 2 of CATALISE: a multinational and multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study of problems with language development: Terminology

    Dorothy V.M. Bishop;Margaret J. Snowling;Paul A. Thompson;Trisha Greenhalgh

  • Clinical pathways: effects on professional practice, patient outcomes, length of stay and hospital costs

    Thomas Rotter;Leigh Kinsman;Erica James;Andreas Machotta

  • What is a clinical pathway? Development of a definition to inform the debate

    Leigh Kinsman;Thomas Rotter;Erica James;Pamela Claire Snow

  • Traumatic Brain Injury: Rehabilitation for Everyday Adaptive Living, 2nd Edition

    Jennie Ponsford;Sue Sloan;Pamela Snow

  • Measuring perception of communicative ability: the development and evaluation of the La Trobe communication questionnaire

    Jacinta M. Douglas;Christine A. O'Flaherty;Pamela C. Snow

  • The effects of clinical pathways on professional practice, patient outcomes, length of stay, and hospital costs: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Thomas Rotter;Leigh Kinsman;Edward James;Andreas Machotta

  • The Role of Background Knowledge in Reading Comprehension: A Critical Review

    Reid Smith;Pamela Snow;Tanya Serry;Lorraine Hammond

  • Guide to questioning children during the free‐narrative phase of an investigative interview

    Martine B Powell;Pamela Claire Snow

  • Oral Language Competence, Social Skills and High-risk Boys: What are Juvenile Offenders Trying to Tell us?

    Pamela Claire Snow;Martine B Powell

  • Child speech, language and communication need re-examined in a public health context: a new direction for the speech and language therapy profession.

    James Law;Sheena Reilly;Pamela Claire Snow

  • Conversational discourse abilities following severe traumatic brain injury: a follow up study

    Pamela Snow;Jacinta Douglas;Jennie Ponsford

  • Oral language competence in incarcerated young offenders: Links with offending severity

    Pamela C. Snow;Martine B. Powell

  • What's the story? An exploration of narrative language abilities in male juvenile offenders

    Pamela Claire Snow;Martine B Powell

  • Language and reading instruction in early years’ classrooms: the knowledge and self-rated ability of Australian teachers

    Hannah L. Stark;Pamela C. Snow;Patricia Ann Eadie;Sharon R. Goldfeld;Sharon R. Goldfeld

  • Youth (in)justice: oral language competence in early life and risk for engagement in antisocial behaviour in adolescence

    Pamela Snow;Martine Powell

  • Developmental language disorders and adolescent risk: A public-health advocacy role for speech pathologists?

    Pamela Claire Snow;Martine B Powell

  • Measuring perceived communicative ability after traumatic brain injury : Reliability and validity of the La Trobe Communication Questionnaire.

    Jacinta M Douglas;Christine Bracy;Pamela Claire Snow

  • Interventions for improving medical students' interpersonal communication in medical consultations.

    Conor Gilligan;Erica L James;Pamela Snow;Sue Outram

  • Teacher identification of children at risk for language impairment in the first year of school.

    Diana Antoniazzi;Pamela Claire Snow;Virginia Dickson-Swift

  • Principles That Underpin Effective School-Based Drug Education

    Richard Midford;Geoffrey Munro;Nyanda McBride;Pamela Claire Snow

  • Conversational assessment following traumatic brain injury: a comparison across two control groups

    Pamela Snow;Jacinta Douglas;Jennie Ponsford

Frequent Co-Authors

Martine B. Powell
Martine B. Powell Griffith University
Jacinta Douglas
Jacinta Douglas La Trobe University
Jennie Ponsford
Jennie Ponsford Monash University
Jarrad A. G. Lum
Jarrad A. G. Lum Deakin University
Kevin Wheldall
Kevin Wheldall Macquarie University
David J. Hawes
David J. Hawes University of Sydney
John W. Toumbourou
John W. Toumbourou Deakin University
Anne Castles
Anne Castles Macquarie University
Andrea Reupert
Andrea Reupert Monash University
David J. Amor
David J. Amor Murdoch Children's Research Institute

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