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Current NIH Funded Study

Start Date: July, 2009
End Date: June, 2014

 

 

 

We are currently working on a five-year project funded by NIH. The Co-PIs on the grant are: Janna Oetting, Michael Hegarty, and Janet McDonald. The work seeks to learn more about children who speak nonstandard English and who present specific language impairment. To do this work, we will compare children with and without impairments who speak different Louisiana dialects of English.

Media blitz: http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/82535007.html?showAll=y&c=y

Target Age of Children	Participating Parishes	Goal of Work
Kindergarten	Assumption Iberville West Ascension St. James	To better identify children with clinical language impairments in communities where different Louisiana dialects of English are spoken.