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Jennifer Windsor

Jennifer Windsor

Jennifer Windsor

612-624-8675
Speech Language Hearing Sciences 115 Shev H

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • cognitive processing
  • language development
  • language-learning disabilities in childhood

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Speech-Language Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1990.

Publications

  • General slowing in language impairment: Methodological considerations in testing the hypothesis: Windsor, Jennifer, R.L. Milbrath, E.J. Carney, & S.E. Rakowski, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 44 446-461, 2001.
  • The role of phonological opacity in reading achievement: Windsor, Jennifer, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 43 50-61, 2000.
  • Verb and noun morphology in the spoken and written language of children with language learning disabilities: Windsor, Jennifer, C.M. Scott & C.K. Street, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 43 1322-1336, 2000.
  • Testing the generalized slowing hypothesis in specific language impairment: Windsor, Jennifer, M. Hwang, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 42 1205-1218, 1999.
  • Language intervention: Preschool through the elementary years. Windsor, Jennifer, M.E. Fey & S.F. Warren, Editor, Brookes, 1995.
  • School-age language disorders: Windsor, Jennifer, MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2003.
  • Contrasting general and process-specific slowing in language impairment: Windsor, Jennifer, Topics in Language Disorders, 2002.
  • The search for common ground - Part II: Nonlinguistic performance of linguistically diverse learners: Windsor, Jennifer, Kohnert, K., Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2004.
  • The search for common ground - Part I: Lexical performance of linguistically diverse learners: Windsor, Jennifer, Kohnert, K., Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2004.
  • The influence of vocabulary size, phonotactic proabability, and wordlikeness: Windsor, Jennifer, Munson, B. & Kurtz, B., Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005.
  • Crossing borders: Recognition of Spanish words by English-speaking children: Windsor, Jennifer, Kohnert, K. & Miller, R., Applied Psycholinguistics, 2004.
  • Acoustic and perceptual correlates of stress in nonwords produced by children: Windsor, Jennifer, Munson, B. & Bjorum, E., Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2003.
  • Do language-based processing tasks separate children with language impairment from typical bilinguals?. Windsor, Jennifer, K. Kohnert, D. Yim, Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2006.
  • Language acquisition with limited input: Romanian institution and foster care.: Windsor, Jennifer, Glaze, L., Koga, S., & the BEIP Core Group, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, in press.
  • Counting span and the assessment of primary language impairment.: Windsor, Jennifer, K. Danahy, K. Kohnert, International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 42 349-365, 2007.
  • Examining the language performance of children with and without SLI: Contributions of phonological working memory and speed of processing.. Windsor, Jennifer, Montgomery, J, Co-Author, in press.

Research Activities

  • General slowing in language impairment: funded by the National Institutes of Health, June 2000 - May 2004
  • Processing measures of LI in linguistically diverse learners: funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development., May 2005 - April 2008

Professional Activities

  • Professor and Chair: Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences: 2002 - present
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: 2002 - 2005
  • Consulting Editor: Plural Publishing , 2005 - 2009

Outreach Activities

  • Co-Director, Center for Cognitive and Social Processes in Language: http://www.ccsl.umn.edu, 2003

Awards

  • Editor's Award, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2001
  • Scholar of the College, College of Liberal Arts, 2007 - 2010

Courses Taught

  • SLHS 5603 - Language and Cognitive Disorders of Children
  • SLHS 8410 - Research seminar
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