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Dr Laura Justice
Dr Laura Justice is EHE Distinguished Professor of
Educational Psychology at The Ohio State University. She
is also Executive Director of the Crane Center for Early
Childhood Research and Policy and the Schoenbaum Family
Center.
Laura is interested in identifying ways to more effectively
support the early language and literacy development
of children experiencing risk, including children with
communication disorders and children living in poverty.
Justice is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed
articles, appearing in such journals as Child Development;
Psychological Science; Developmental Psychology; Journal
of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; and American
Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. She is also the
author of two major textbooks in Communication Sciences
(Communication Sciences and Disorders: A Contemporary
Perspective, and Language Development: Theory of
Practice).
Laura is heavily involved with literacy promotion in
international contexts, including ongoing work scaling up a
parent-child reading program in indigenous Maya villages in
eastern Mexico.
WKP: Keynote Presentation:
Conceptualising “Dose” in speech-language interventions: Current findings and
future directions
Provision of speech-language services involves specifying the dose of the intervention to be delivered; speech-
language therapists make presumably crucial decisions about the duration of a course of treatment, the length of
individual sessions, and the overall volume of ‘active ingredients’ embedded within individual sessions. What is
treatment dose and is it important?
In this keynote, Laura defines dose in relation to provision of speech-therapy services for treatment of language
and speech disorders in children and adults. She discusses the current state of the evidence regarding the relation
between dose and treatment outcomes.
Finally, Laura provides recommendations for clinicians in how to carefully examine the dose of their own
interventions and the profession for moving forward regarding this important dimension of our services.
Featured Presenters
Wednesday 31 May
9.00am - 10.30am
Wednesday 31 May
11.00am – 12.45pm continued 2.15pm – 3.45pm
W1A: Keynote Seminar Presentation:
Powering up our vocabulary intervention approaches: Applying robust vocabulary
techniques to speech-language intervention (S)
Many children with developmental language disorder exhibit lags in their vocabulary growth; not surprisingly,
vocabulary goals are often included in children’s treatment plan. Improving children’s vocabulary skills can improve
basic communication processes, but also may contribute to improved reading comprehension in the short and long-
term.
A large, growing body of research points to the importance of "robust vocabulary intervention" as a means to improve
children’s vocabulary skills across the continuum of preschool to adolescence. This seminar will describe vocabulary
development and intervention using the lens of robust vocabulary intervention, focusing on: (a) Selection of words,
and (b) Implementation of empirically supported techniques for promoting knowledge of these words.
The overall goal of this seminar is to translate research on vocabulary intervention into everyday practices
implemented within classroom or clinical settings.
Prerequisite:
Knowledge of language acquisition