Publications

Selected Publications

Ellis Weismer, S., Venker, C., Evans, J.L., & Moyle, M. (in press). Fast mapping in late-talking toddlers. Applied Psycholinguistics.

Venker, C., McDuffie, A., Ellis Weismer, S., & Abbeduto, L. (2011). Increasing Verbal Responsiveness in Parents of Children With Autism: a Pilot Study. Autism. Advance online publication. doi:10.1177/1362361311413396
PMID:21846665

Moyle, M., Karasinski, C., Ellis Weismer, S., & Gorman, B. (2011). Grammatical morphology in school-age children with and without language impairment: A discriminant function analysis. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in the Schools, 42, 550-560.

Ellis Weismer, S. & Kaushanskaya, M. (2010). The use of descriptive data from bilingual children to inform theories of specific language impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics, 31, 277-282. doi:10.1017/S0142716409990427

Karasinski, C., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2010). Comprehension of Inferences in Discourse Processing by Adolescents With and Without Language Impairment. J Speech Lang Hear Res, 53, 1268-1279

Pierpont EI, Weismer SE, Roberts AE, Tworog-Dube E, Pierpont ME, Mendelsohn NJ, Seidenberg MS. (2010). The language phenotype of children and adolescents with Noonan syndrome. J Speech Lang Hear Res, 53 (4), pp 917-32.

Ellis Weismer, S., Gernsbacher, M., Stronach,S. Karasinski, C., Eernisse, E., Venker, C. & Sindberg, H. (2010). Lexical and Grammatical Skills in Toddlers on the Autism Spectrum Compared to Late Talking Toddlers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41 (8), 1065-1075.

Ray-Subramanian, C., Huai, N. and Ellis Weismer, S. (2010). Brief Report: Adaptive Behavior and Cognitive Skills for Toddlers on the Autism Spectrum. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41 (5), pp 679-684. PMID:20697794

Ellis Weismer, S., Lord, C., & Esler, A. (2010). Early Language Patterns of Toddlers on the Autism Spectrum Compared to Toddlers with Developmental Delay. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 40 (10), pp 1259-127. DOI: 10.1007/s10803-010-0983-1
PMID: 20195735

Ellis Weismer, S. Language and communication on the autism spectrum. (2010). In M. Barnes (Ed.), Genes, Brain and Development: The Neurocognition of Genetic Disorders. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Roos, E., & Ellis Weismer, S. Outcomes of late talking toddlers at preschool and beyond. (2008). Perspectives on Language and Learning Education, 15, 119-126. Rockville, MD: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Roos, E., McDuffie, A., Ellis Weismer, S., Gernsbacher, M.A., & Eisenband, L. (2008). A comparison of contexts for assessing joint attention in toddlers on the autism spectrum. Autism, 12, 275-291.

Horton-Ikard, R., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2007). A preliminary examination of vocabulary and word-learning in African-American Toddlers from Middle and low SES homes. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 16, 381-392.

Leonard, L., Ellis Weismer, S., Miller, C., Francis, D., Tomblin, J.B., & Kail, R. (2007). Speed of processing, working memory, and language impairment in children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 408-428.

Moyle, M.J., Ellis Weismer, S, Lindstrom, M., & Evans, J. (2007). Longitudinal relationships between lexical and grammatical development in typical and late talking children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 508-528.

Ellis Weismer, S. (2007). Typical talkers, late talkers, and children with specific language impairment: A language endowment spectrum? In R. Paul (Ed.), Language disorders and development from a developmental perspective: Essays in honor of Robin S. Chapman (pp.83-101). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Ellis Weismer, S., & Edwards, J. (2006). The role of phonological storage deficits in specific language impairment: A reconsideration. Invited commentary on S.E. Gathercole, Nonword repetition and word learning: The nature of the relationship. Applied Psycholinguistics, 27, 556-562.

Catts, H., Adlof, S., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2006). Language deficits in poor comprehenders: A case for the simple view of reading. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49, 278-293.

Ellis Weismer, S., & Robertson, S.B. (2006). Focused stimulation approach to language intervention. In R. McCauley & M. Fey (Eds.), Treatment in Language Disorders in Children: Conventional and Controversial Approaches (pp. 175-202). Baltimore: Brookes Publishing Co., Inc.

Catts, H., Adlof, S., Hogan, T., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2005). Are specific language impairment and dyslexia distinct disorders? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 48, 1378-1396.

Ellis Weismer, S. (2005). Speech perception in specific language impairment (pp. 567-588). D. Pisoni and R. Remez (Eds.), Handbook of Speech Perception. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

Ellis Weismer, S., Plante, E., Jones, M., & Tomblin, J.B. (2005). A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of verbal working memory in adolescents with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 48, 405-425.

Gernsbacher, M.A., Geye, H.M., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2005). The role of language and communication impairments within autism (pp. 73-93). In P. Fletcher & J.F. Miller (Eds.), Language disorders and developmental theory. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Heilmann, J., Ellis Weismer, S., Evans, J., & Hollar, C. (2005). Utility of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory in identifying children's language level. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 14, 40-51.

Horton-Ikard, R., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2005) Distinguishing African American English from developmental errors in the language production of toddlers. Applied Psycholinguistics, 26, 597-620.

Horton-Ikard, R., Ellis Weismer, S., & Edwards, C. (2005). Examining the use of standard language production measures in the language samples of African-American toddlers. Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders, 3, 169-182.

Ellis Weismer, S. (2004). Memory and processing capacity. In R. Kent (Ed.), MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders (pp. 349-352). Boston: MIT Press.

Gutiérrez-Clellen, V., Calderón, J., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2004). Verbal working memory in bilingual children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47, 863-876.

Tomblin, J.B., Zhang, X., Weiss, A., Catts, H., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2004). Dimensions of individual differences in communication skills among primary grade children. In M.L. Rice & S.F. Warren (Eds.), Developmental language disorders: From phenotypes to etiologies (pp.53-76). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Ellis Weismer, S., & Evans, J. (2002). The role of processing limitations in early identification of specific language impairment. Topics in Language Disorders, 22, 15-29.

Ellis Weismer, S., & Thordardottir, E.T. (2002). Cognition and language. In P. Accardo, A. Capute, & B. Rogers (Eds.), Disorders of Language Development (pp. 21-37). Timonium, MD: York Press, Inc.

Throdardottor, E.T. & Ellis Weismer, S. (2002). Content mazes and filled pauses in narrative language samples of children with specific language impairment. Brain and Cognition, 48, 587-592.

Thordardottir, E.T., Ellis Weismer, S., & Evans, J. (2002). Continuity in lexical and morphological
development in Icelandic- and English-speaking 2-year-olds. First Language, 22, 3-28.

Thordardottir, E.T., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2002). Verb argument structure weakness in SLI in relation to age and utterance length. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 16, 233-250.

Thordardottir, E.T., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2001). High-frequency verbs and verb diversity in the spontaneous speech of school-age children with specific language impairment. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 36, 221-244.