Boosting Engagement and Achievement in Classrooms through Oral Narratives (BEACON)
The BEACON project partners the CORAL lab with schools to implement Story Champs. Studying how children, especially those at risk for DLD and dyslexia, respond to the intervention. The lab provides training, monitors implementation, and assesses students’ language growth.
Collaborative Research to Explore Schools Context (CREST)
The CREST project is awaiting a pilot grant to study how school-based speech and language interventions align with or differ from the goals outlined in students’ IEPs.
Library Story Time, Resources, and Screenings (L-STRS)
The L-STRS project provides free speech and language screenings, community resources, and opportunities to engage with SLP students. Its goal is to support and inform the community while promoting speech and language development.
DITISLP
The Dissemination & Implementation with The Informed SLP (DITISLP) Is an ongoing project where we will conduct online surveys and focus groups with current practicing Speech Language Pathologists to explore the impact of one dissemination strategy, The Informed SLP, on the uptake of evidence-based practice in speech-language pathology. The Informed SLP is a subscription, web-based platform that provides monthly summaries and a quick-search database for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) looking to stay aware of current research evidence in the field. Although The Informed SLP purports to translate evidence from research articles into clinically actionable tools for busy SLPs, there are no studies to date supporting this claim. This dissemination research study aims to better understand the audience who has engaged with the evidence via The Informed SLP.
Community Outreach and Virtual Engagement
The COVE project builds community connections, creates outreach materials highlighting CORAL lab projects, and shares relevant research and discussions to promote collaboration and awareness.
CompILR
The Comprehension Intervention Literature Review (CompILR) project is a systematic review of current published literature on the effectiveness of small group and 1:1 oral language comprehension interventions in pre-readers (preschool through 1st grade).
Literacy Camp (CampLit)
The CampLIT project collected data from a 6-week Summer Literacy Camp with 10 children screened for dyslexia and DLD. Using the Story Champs intervention, the study aimed to improve receptive and expressive narrative skills. Progress was measured through a written Narrative Language Task and a sentence repetition probe assessing working memory.
