coral.lab@sdsu.edu
SLHS Building, Room 201A, San Diego State University
coral.lab@sdsu.edu
SLHS Building, Room 201A, San Diego State University
coral.lab@sdsu.edu
SLHS Building, Room 201A, San Diego State University

Current Projects

Language Intervention Impacts on Executive Function (LIIEF)

Language Intervention Impacts on Executive Function (LIIEF)

The Language Intervention Impacts on Executive Function (LIIEF) project aims to better understand the relationship between language and executive function as well as story grammar and inferencing. This will serve as preliminary work that leverages this understanding to optimize current interventions to address language and cognitive skills more efficiently and thus be more ecologically valid and feasible for overburdened SLPs. We will be collaborating with an SLP and her current caseload to have children ages 4-7 receive tier 2 or 3 intervention using the Story Champs narrative language intervention. They will receive approximately 16 lessons over 8 weeks. Additionally, their language and executive function skills will be assessed at pre- and post- intervention as well as several times throughout the intervention period.

Enrollment for LIIEF

Reader's Reef

Graduate and undergraduate students studying to become speech-language pathologists create book lessons that focus on strengthening young children’s language and early reading skills. These book lessons are designed for 3-5 year olds, and they will be implemented in local public preschools beginning in 2022. This project also aims to equip teachers and parents with resources to support children’s vocabulary, comprehension, early reading, and language development.

CompILR

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).

Knowledge, Learning, & Executive Function in Comprehension (KnowLEFIC)

Knowledge, Learning, & Executive Function in Comprehension (KnowLEFIC)

KnowLEFIC looks at the impacts of the relationship between learning and processing on young children’s comprehension. This project will include children with a spectrum of language abilities, including children with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) who are Spanish-English bilinguals. This project aims to understand where the difficulties arise during comprehension. Learning more about how children’s learning and processing impact their comprehension can help us understand children with DLD better, illuminate potential differences between children with DLD and children with typical development, and help us learn how to better support children with DLD who are monolingual or bilingual.

Enrollment for KnowLEFIC
L-STRS

L-STRS

The Library Story Time Resources and Screenings (L-STRS) project is an initiative that aims to provide speech and language resources to the community by offering free screeners, opportunities to engage with speech-language pathology students, and to create community initiated resources. It is an effort to inform the community and provide essential resources to support speech and language development.

DITISLP

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.