Carol A. Miller, Ph.D.

photo of Carol A. Miller

Ph.D (Psychology), University of Pennsylvania, 1994
Associate Professor

Contact Information

404K Ford Building
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802

(814) 865-6213
Fax: (814) 863-3759

cam47@psu.edu

Courses Taught

CSD 300, Developmental Considerations in the Assessment and Treatment of Language Disorders
CSD 500, Research Methods in Communication Sciences and Disorders

Research Interests

Typical and atypical language development; children with specific language impairment; cognitive processes in communication disorders, with emphasis on speed of processing in children and adults with language disorders.

Member of the Center for Language Science

Examples of Collaborative Projects

Discriminating SLI and APD in School-aged Children (Principal Investigator). This project, funded by the National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, compares children with specific language impairment (SLI) and children with auditory processing disorder (APD) on a variety of behavioral tasks related to language, auditory processing, memory, and response time. The goal of the study is to determine what measures, if any, best distinguish between these two groups of children.


Collaboration on Specific Language Impairment--Project 2: Processing Abilities of Children with Specific Language Impairment (PI, Penn State subcontract and Investigator). This longitudinal project follows a large sample of children with typically developing language, specific language impairment (SLI), and low language and cognitive abilities. The collaboration includes researchers from several universities and is headquartered at the University of Iowa. Project 2 focuses on the domain-general processing abilities of children and asks how those abilities are related to language impairment.

Recent Publications

Miller, C.A., Leonard, L.B., and Finneran, D. (2008).  Grammaticality judgments in adolescents with and without language impairment.  International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders .

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

Miller, C.A. (2007).  [Review of the book A glossary of morphology ].  Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 21 (4), 319-320.

Miller, C.A., Leonard, L.B., Kail, R.V., Zhang, X., Tomblin, J.B., and Francis, D. (2006).  Response time in fourteen-year-olds with language impairment.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49 (4), 712-728.

Miller, C.A. (2006).  Developmental relationships between language and theory of mind.  American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 15, 142-154.

Miller, C.A., and Deevy, P. (2006). Structural priming in children with and without specific language impairment.  Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 20 (5), 387-399.

Kail, R.V., and Miller, C.A. (2006).  Developmental change in processing speed:  Domain specificity and stability. Journal of Cognition and Development, 7 (1), 119-137.