Elaine R. Silliman, Ph.D, is Professor Emeritus, Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Florida. An ASHA and IARLD Fellow and ASHA Honors recipient, her research on academic language/literacy proficiency has appeared in a wide variety of peer-reviewed journals. She has authored/co-authored 26 chapters and co-edited 7 books.
Dr. Silliman is a past Editor of the ASHA journal, Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. Her current research interests include children who are struggling with reading, writing, and spelling, including monolingual English-speaking students with social dialect variations and bilingual (Spanish-English) students.
The two purposes of this chapter are to: 1) define cultural and linguistic diversity and inclusio... more The two purposes of this chapter are to: 1) define cultural and linguistic diversity and inclusion among school-age children; and 2) review the current policy context for research on diversity and inclusion, as well as their relationships to successful schooling for culturally and linguistically diverse learners. The case of the United States is highlighted and considered within a global context. The chapter includes a discussion of current issues and trends in this area, and suggests how future research is likely to develop
Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose Morphology, which is a bridge between phonology and orthography, plays an important role ... more Purpose Morphology, which is a bridge between phonology and orthography, plays an important role in the development of word-specific spellings. This study, which employed longitudinal sampling of typically developing students in Grades 3, 4, and 5, explored how the misspellings of words with derivational suffixes shed light on the interplay of phonological, orthographic, and morphological (POM) linguistic features as students learn to integrate POM features appropriately to generate correct spellings. Method Sixty typically developing Grade 3 students were tested using the Spelling subtest from the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test–Second Edition (Wechsler, 2001) and were divided into superior, average, and poor spellers. Students' spelling skill was then assessed using the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test–Second Edition annually for another 2 years. Misspelled derivations from these three testing sessions were analyzed for linguistic feature errors and error complexity/s...
"I do better expressing myself in writing than orally because, if I write, I think... an... more "I do better expressing myself in writing than orally because, if I write, I think... and I can stop without trying to shoot it out really quick.... It's hard to think and talk at the same time to let it all be expres-sive, like do it smoothly. Like writing, you can go back and change like this paragraph I want first, second, third.. Then talking you won't understand me 'cause I'm like confusing you 'cause I was talking about this. Then I switched to this that should have been first and then. So, in writing. " (Betsy, age 17 years) Betsy is a telling case of the struggles and victories of a youngster who has grappled with a language learning disability for most of her 17 years.1 Her story is a fitting way to conclude this volume because she represents how a child with motivation and resilience can confront the educational and interpersonal obstacles she has experienced. Her story, which predates the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (hereafter NCLB) and the 1997 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (hereafter IDEA; see Silliman & Wilkinson, Chapter 1, this volume), is a metaphor for the on-
The two purposes of this chapter are to: 1) define cultural and linguistic diversity and inclusio... more The two purposes of this chapter are to: 1) define cultural and linguistic diversity and inclusion among school-age children; and 2) review the current policy context for research on diversity and inclusion, as well as their relationships to successful schooling for culturally and linguistically diverse learners. The case of the United States is highlighted and considered within a global context. The chapter includes a discussion of current issues and trends in this area, and suggests how future research is likely to develop
Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose Morphology, which is a bridge between phonology and orthography, plays an important role ... more Purpose Morphology, which is a bridge between phonology and orthography, plays an important role in the development of word-specific spellings. This study, which employed longitudinal sampling of typically developing students in Grades 3, 4, and 5, explored how the misspellings of words with derivational suffixes shed light on the interplay of phonological, orthographic, and morphological (POM) linguistic features as students learn to integrate POM features appropriately to generate correct spellings. Method Sixty typically developing Grade 3 students were tested using the Spelling subtest from the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test–Second Edition (Wechsler, 2001) and were divided into superior, average, and poor spellers. Students' spelling skill was then assessed using the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test–Second Edition annually for another 2 years. Misspelled derivations from these three testing sessions were analyzed for linguistic feature errors and error complexity/s...
The two purposes of this chapter are to: 1) define cultural and linguistic diversity and inclusio... more The two purposes of this chapter are to: 1) define cultural and linguistic diversity and inclusion among school-age children; and 2) review the current policy context for research on diversity and inclusion, as well as their relationships to successful schooling for culturally and linguistically diverse learners. The case of the United States is highlighted and considered within a global context. The chapter includes a discussion of current issues and trends in this area, and suggests how future research is likely to develop
Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose Morphology, which is a bridge between phonology and orthography, plays an important role ... more Purpose Morphology, which is a bridge between phonology and orthography, plays an important role in the development of word-specific spellings. This study, which employed longitudinal sampling of typically developing students in Grades 3, 4, and 5, explored how the misspellings of words with derivational suffixes shed light on the interplay of phonological, orthographic, and morphological (POM) linguistic features as students learn to integrate POM features appropriately to generate correct spellings. Method Sixty typically developing Grade 3 students were tested using the Spelling subtest from the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test–Second Edition (Wechsler, 2001) and were divided into superior, average, and poor spellers. Students' spelling skill was then assessed using the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test–Second Edition annually for another 2 years. Misspelled derivations from these three testing sessions were analyzed for linguistic feature errors and error complexity/s...
"I do better expressing myself in writing than orally because, if I write, I think... an... more "I do better expressing myself in writing than orally because, if I write, I think... and I can stop without trying to shoot it out really quick.... It's hard to think and talk at the same time to let it all be expres-sive, like do it smoothly. Like writing, you can go back and change like this paragraph I want first, second, third.. Then talking you won't understand me 'cause I'm like confusing you 'cause I was talking about this. Then I switched to this that should have been first and then. So, in writing. " (Betsy, age 17 years) Betsy is a telling case of the struggles and victories of a youngster who has grappled with a language learning disability for most of her 17 years.1 Her story is a fitting way to conclude this volume because she represents how a child with motivation and resilience can confront the educational and interpersonal obstacles she has experienced. Her story, which predates the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (hereafter NCLB) and the 1997 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (hereafter IDEA; see Silliman & Wilkinson, Chapter 1, this volume), is a metaphor for the on-
The two purposes of this chapter are to: 1) define cultural and linguistic diversity and inclusio... more The two purposes of this chapter are to: 1) define cultural and linguistic diversity and inclusion among school-age children; and 2) review the current policy context for research on diversity and inclusion, as well as their relationships to successful schooling for culturally and linguistically diverse learners. The case of the United States is highlighted and considered within a global context. The chapter includes a discussion of current issues and trends in this area, and suggests how future research is likely to develop
Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose Morphology, which is a bridge between phonology and orthography, plays an important role ... more Purpose Morphology, which is a bridge between phonology and orthography, plays an important role in the development of word-specific spellings. This study, which employed longitudinal sampling of typically developing students in Grades 3, 4, and 5, explored how the misspellings of words with derivational suffixes shed light on the interplay of phonological, orthographic, and morphological (POM) linguistic features as students learn to integrate POM features appropriately to generate correct spellings. Method Sixty typically developing Grade 3 students were tested using the Spelling subtest from the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test–Second Edition (Wechsler, 2001) and were divided into superior, average, and poor spellers. Students' spelling skill was then assessed using the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test–Second Edition annually for another 2 years. Misspelled derivations from these three testing sessions were analyzed for linguistic feature errors and error complexity/s...
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