num_pages: 57
description: A comprehensive inquiry into the phenomena of late-talking toddlers--part of the San Diego State University Annual Research Lecture Series, Volume 12. About the Author Donna Thal, Ph.D. Dr. Donna Thal is Professor in the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at San Diego State University and Research Psychologist at the Center for Research in Language at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Thal holds the M.S. degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Brooklyn College and the Ph.D. degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research in Language at UCSD (1985-1988), an Assistant Professor at Hofstra University (1981-1985), and an Assistant Professor at Queens College of CUNY (1979-1981). Dr. Thal is a developmental psycholinguist and a certified and licensed speech-language pathologist who has conducted research in a number of areas including normal and disordered development of language and cognition, studies of children with focal brain injury and studies of children with delayed onset of language. She has also carried out studies of language development in Spanish-speaking infants and toddlers. Her most recent work focuses on early identification of risk for clinically significant language impairment and is funded by RO1 grant from the NIH National Institute of Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders. Dr. Thal is and ASHA Fellow. She is also an editorial consultant for language for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research and the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
language: English
title: Late-talking toddlers: Are they at risk?
titlecomplete: Late-talking toddlers: Are they at risk? (Twelfth University research lecture)
publisher: San Diego State University Press