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GLORIA JANE STREIT OLNESS

University of North Texas Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences 1155 Union Circle, #305010 Denton, Texas 76203-5017 U.S.A.

Phone: (940) 369-7455 Fax: (940) 565-4058 E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Human Development and Communication Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas (May 2000)

American Fellow (Dissertation), American Association of University Women, 1999-2000

• M.A., Linguistics, University of Oregon (March 1993)

• M.S., Communicative Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison (August 1987)

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Fellow (1984 – 1985)

• B.A., Speech and Hearing Sciences & French (double major), Indiana University-Bloomington (May 1984)

Graduation with Highest Distinction (1984) Phi Beta Kappa (1984)

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Faculty

• Assistant Professor, University of North Texas, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, (September 2006 to Present) Note: On unpaid, personal academic leave September 2007-May 2008

Non-Faculty Research

IN CLINICALLY-APPLIED DISCOURSE LINGUISTICS:

• Research Scientist (PI on NIH R03 grant), University of Texas at Dallas, Callier Center for Communication Disorders and School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, formerly School of Human Development (2003 – 2008) Note: From Fall 2006, this position was unpaid and concurrent with UNT faculty position

• Research Associate (Post-doctoral, Callier Excellence in Education Fellow) University of Texas at Dallas, Callier Center for Communication Disorders and School of Human Development (2000 - 2002)

• Research Assistant, University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Human Development and Communication Sciences (8 semesters during 1993 - 1999) (Final dissertation research year, 1999-2000, was externally funded by American Association of University Women, so internal assistantship was declined in that year.)

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IN SPEECH-MOTOR SKILLS AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS:

• Research Assistant, University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Human Development and Communication Sciences (Spring 1992 - Spring 1993)

IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL):

• Curriculum Researcher (Graduate Teaching Fellow), University of Oregon, American English Institute and Linguistics Department (Fall 1990 - Spring 1991) Designed and implemented pronunciation curriculum for department of English as a Second Language (ESL)

IN CHILD LANGUAGE AND MENTAL RETARDATION:

• Project Assistant, Waisman Center on Mental Retardation and Human Development (Madison, WI) (Fall 1986 - Spring 1987) Speech-language diagnostician in research program for children with Down Syndrome. Jon F. Miller, Mentor

• Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Communicative Disorders (Summer 1985 - Fall 1985) Computer analysis of child language transcripts. Jon F. Miller, Mentor

• Research Assistant, Indiana University-Bloomington, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences (Fall 1983 - Summer 1984) Research projects in normal language acquisition and psycholinguistics. Judith R. Johnston, Mentor

Clinical

Clinical Certification: Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP), American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) (1988 - Present)

• Speech-Language Pathologist, Eugene Hearing and Speech Center, Eugene, OR (1988 - 1991) Adult neurogenic communication disorders and dysphagia in non-profit clinic and nursing homes

• Speech-Language Pathologist, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (1988) Outpatient adult neurogenic communication disorders and dysphagia in rehabilitation hospital

• Clinical Fellow in Speech-Language Pathology, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago,

Chicago, IL (1987 - 1988) Outpatient adult neurogenic communication disorders and dysphagia in rehabilitation hospital

• Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Intern, Middleton Veterans Administration Hospital, Madison, WI (1986) Adult neurogenic communication disorders. John C. Rosenbek, Clinical Mentor

Teaching

• Adjunct Faculty (Doctoral), University of Texas at Dallas, Department of

Communication Disorders, (Spring 2006)

• Instructor (Pre-doctoral), University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Communication Disorders, (Fall 1995)

• Instructor (Pre-doctoral), Texas Woman's University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, (Spring 1994)


FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND OTHER HONORS (details) • Excellence in Education Fellow, Callier Center for Communication Disorders, University of

Texas at Dallas (2000 – 2002) Post-doctoral research fellowship at center specializing in research and clinical services for individuals with communication disorders

• American Fellow (Dissertation), American Association of University Women (1999 - 2000),

$15,000 Competitive national fellowship, awarded to approximately 7% of applicants in 1999. • Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellow (1984 - 1985), $9,200 plus $4,200 tuition

waiver One-year fellowship yearly awarded yearly to 1-2% of incoming graduate students at the University of Wisconsin--Madison

• Phi Beta Kappa, Indiana University (1984)

• Graduation from Indiana University with Highest Distinction (1984) • Kappa Kappa Gamma Graduate Rehabilitation Fellowship (1984) • University Scholarship, Indiana University (1980 – 1984) • Indiana University Special Scholarship (1980) • High School Valedictorian, Hobart Senior High School, Hobart, Indiana (1980)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS • American Speech-Language Hearing Association (1988 – Present) • Academy of Aphasia

Membership by peer nomination and application only

Regular (Full) Member (November 2012 – Present) Associate Member (2004 – 2012)

• Oregon Speech-Language Hearing Association (1988 – 1991) • Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association (1987 – 1988)

RESEARCH AFFILIATION • Collaboration Member: AphasiaBank (2005 to Present)

International collaborative multimedia database for on-line analysis of aphasic communication, directed by A. Holland (U. of Arizona) and B. MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon), with funding support from the National Institutes of Health awarded to MacWhinney and Holland.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE • French: Fluent reading and proficient conversational skills


FUNDING AWARDED Extramural

AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOCIATION (ASHA), OFFICE OF MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS (OMA) • Grant Program for Projects on Multicultural Activities, $8900

September 2009 to August 2010 Awarded through University of North Texas. In the 2009 application cycle, funding rate was 5%: funding offered to 3 of 54 applicants.

Project Director, G. Olness; Co-PD, K. Thomas “Cultural Competence for Clinicians Serving a Diverse Population with Aphasia”

Resulted in film/DVD, nationally distributed by granting agency. The DVD documents first-hand personal accounts of life with aphasia, fundamental for development of clinical research and training. Catalogued in UNT Media Library. Formed the basis for a platform presentation at a national conference Created a local, multicultural advisory panel of five adults with aphasia (MAP-A)

--panelists were paid for an expert panel presentation to UNT master’s students

Supported/funded two UNT master’s students, for intensive/extensive interaction experience with adults who have aphasia Funded a public presentation by a national expert on multicultural clinical practice in adult neurogenic communication disorders, for local clinicians and students

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS (NIH/NIDCD)

• R03 (1R03DC005151) $150,000

January 2003 to December 2005 (No-cost extension awarded through 2008) Awarded through University of Texas at Dallas; no-cost extension awarded through 2008 to continue the work at University of North Texas (UNT), to meet the challenge of recruiting African American research participants, who represented a population integral to the research design. African American graduate of UNT master’s program in speech-language pathology was hired to complete this data collection.

Principal Investigator, G. Olness “Narrative in African Americans and Caucasians with Aphasia”

(products of NIH grant, next page)


FUNDING AWARDED (Cont.) Extramural (cont.)

NIH/NIDCD R03 (cont.) Resulted in large database housed at UNT. Up to 17 narrative discourse recordings-with-transcripts from each of:

21 African-American narrators with aphasia 18 African-American narrators with no brain injury 28 Caucasian narrators with aphasia 14 Caucasian narrators with no brain injury

Since 2006 alone, data collection and analysis funded by the NIH grant have formed the basis for:

4 of 5 peer-reviewed publications and 1 submission under review 2 of 4 published conference abstracts 13 platform and poster presentations at national and international conferences and

1 presentation submission under review 2 master’s theses (University of Potsdam (Germany); University of North Texas) 3 undergraduate independent studies

Transcripts and recordings that form the basis for journal publications are contributed to international AphasiaBank database collaboration as publications emerge, so data may continue to contribute to international aphasia research efforts

Extramural, for travel

FOR PARTICIPATION IN GRANT REVIEW PANEL • American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation

Rockville, MD, August 2008

FOR PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION MEETING • European meeting of the AphasiaBank collaboration (hosted by B. MacWhinney, funded

by NIH) Odense, Denmark, April 2008

FOR DELIVERY OF INVITED LECTURES TO MASTER’S AND DOCTORAL STUDENTS • University of Groningen Department of Linguistics, and Joint Erasmus Mundus Master’s

Program in Clinical Linguistics (hosted by R. Bastiaanse) Groningen, The Netherlands, March 2008


FUNDING AWARDED (Cont.) Intramural

FOR RESEARCH • Faculty Research Opportunity Grant (ROP), $5000 for research

January 2007 to August 2007 (rolled over until May 2008 for student employment) Principal investigator: G. Olness

FOR PREPARATION OF EDITED BOOK PROPOSAL ON CLINICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

• Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, $5000 in salary support while working on

book proposal June 2007 to August 2007 Fellow: G. Olness

GRANT PROPOSALS SUBMITTED AND UNFUNDED Extramural

FOR RESEARCH • American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHF) New Century Scholars Research

Grant Competition, application for $10,000 for research. 2010 FOR MENTORED RESEARCH BY JUNIOR FACULTY • American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Advancing Academic-Research

Awards, application for $5000 for research, with E. Moore (department chair) / A. Holland (mentor in field). 2008, 2009, 2010

FOR TRAVEL BY JUNIOR FACULTY TO MENTORED RESEARCH MEETINGS

• Invited application for expense-paid travel and room/board for American Speech-

Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Lessons for Success Research Conference. 2011 • American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Research Mentoring-Pair travel

award, with J. R. Rosenbek (mentor in field), application for mentored expense-paid participation in professional seminar on neuroplasticity. 2010

Intramural

FOR RESEARCH

• Once Upon a Time Foundation (through UNT SPHS), application for $13,872 for research.

2011 • UNT Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity, with S. Matteson (Physics) and N. Caplow

(Linguistics), application for $9956 for research. 2010 • UNT Faculty Research Grant, ROP, application for $5000 for research. 2007


TEACHING AND MENTORSHIP ACTIVITIES Classroom-based courses and seminars

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCES (FACULTY) Note: No teaching at UNT during unpaid personal leave in academic year 2007-2008

• Graduate courses

Diagnostics: Speech Pathology: Five semesters, 2006-2012 Language Disorders III (adult neurogenic disorders): Four semesters, 2007-Spring 2013 Discourse Analysis: Seminar in Speech-Language Pathology: 2006 Advanced Adult Neurogenic Disorders: Seminar in Speech-Language Pathology: 2008

• Undergraduate courses

Neurological Bases of Speech and Hearing: Nine semesters, 2009-Spring 2013 Introduction to Disorders of Articulation and Phonology: 2007

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS, DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS (ADJUNCT)

• Graduate courses

Neurogenic Communication Disorders I: 2006 Cultural Issues in Communication (Seminar): 1995

TEXAS WOMAN’S UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS (ADJUNCT) • Undergraduate course

Normal Language and Cognitive Development: 1994

Research mentorship courses

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCES (FACULTY)

• Graduate research mentorship course

Research Project 1 (SPHS 6990), Craig Stewart, Spring 2010 • Undergraduate research mentorship courses

Honors College Thesis (SPHS 4951), Martin Smith, Spring 2010

Special Problems (SPHS 4900), Emlynn Chazhikat, Spring 2012

Special Problems (SPHS 4900), Colleen Dooley, Summer 2012

Special Problems (SPHS 4900), Julie Gober, Summer and Fall 2012; Spring 2013

Special Problems (SPHS 4900), Jami Eaton, Fall 2012; Spring 2013

Honor College Mentored Research (SPHS 3996), Theresa Hunter, Spring 2013


Thesis committees

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS

• Member of master’s thesis committee (Beginning 2010; completed June 2011) for Vanessa van Drunen, Master of Arts in Linguistics, “Lack of Evaluation as Evaluation: Analysis of an African American Woman’s Narrative” (Thesis supervisor Shobhana Chelliah, UNT Linguistics)

• Member of undergraduate honors thesis committee (Spring 2011) for Richard Joseph

Boyle, Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Honors “Interpersonal Decentering and Narratives: How What We Read Affects Perspective Taking” (Thesis supervisor Sharon Rae Jenkins, UNT Psychology)

• Chair of undergraduate honors thesis committee (Beginning Fall 2009; completed Spring

2010) for Martin Smith, Bachelor of Arts in Speech and Hearing Sciences, Honors “The Impact of Guardianship on the Rights of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities: A Case Study”

UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM (GERMANY) JOINT EUROPEAN ERASMUS MUNDUS MASTER’S PROGRAMME IN CLINICAL LINGUISTICS (EMCL) • Member of master’s thesis committee (Beginning June 2008; completed December 2008)

for Leah J. Overholt, Master of Science in Clinical Linguistics, “African American Vernacular English (AAVE) Speakers with Fluent and Non-fluent Aphasia: Auxiliary and Copula Use in Discourse Contexts” (Thesis supervisor Rolien Bastiaanse, University of Groningen (The Netherlands), Linguistics)

Guest lecturing


• Invited Guest Lecturer, UTD SPHS 3080, Nature of Communication Disorders: (Fall 2010; Fall 2011) Host: Dr. R. Yates

Lecture on rehabilitation research for adults who have neurogenic communication disorders

UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN (THE NETHERLANDS)

• Invited Guest Lecturer, Master's and Doctoral Programs in Clinical Linguistics (March 25 to 27, 2008); Host: Dr. R. Bastiaanse Lecture series on “Discourse/syntax interactions in aphasic discourse”

Grant-funded teaching


• Coordinated grant-funded class presentation by a multicultural panel of adults with aphasia: April 2010 Supported by funding awarded to G. Olness (PD) with K. Thomas (Co-PD) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Office of Multicultural Affairs (ASHA OMA). Edited video of the presentation has been distributed nationally by the ASHA OMA, and is catalogued in the University of North Texas Media Library.


Student mentorship in research (authors in bold are students mentored by Olness)


• Publications co-authored with master’s students

Olness, G., Brewster, C., & Dutra, R. (2012). The effects of aphasia on the use of evaluative expression: Evidence from verbal mimicry in narrative. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 61, 230-231. (Peer-reviewed abstract associated with poster presentation at the October 2012 meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, San Francisco, CA) Olness, G. S., Gyger, J., & Thomas, K. (2012). Analysis of narrative functionality: Toward evidence-based approaches in managed care. Seminars in Speech and Language, 33, 55-67. Olness, G.S., & Englebretson, E.F. (2011). On the coherence of information highlighted by narrators with aphasia. Aphasiology, 25, 713-726. Olness, G.S., Matteson, S.E., & Stewart, C. T. (2010). “Let me tell you the point”: How speakers with aphasia assign prominence to information in narratives. Aphasiology, 24, 697-708. Olness, G.S., & Stewart, C. (2007). Assigning prominence to information through narrative evaluation: The effects of aphasia severity. Brain and Language, 103, 230-231. (Peer-reviewed published abstract resulting in poster presentation at the October 2007 meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Washington, DC)

• Platform conference presentations co-authored with master’s students

Olness, G.S., Thomas, K., Englebretson, E., & Inglis, J. (2010, November). Multicultural advisory panel on aphasia (MAP-A): Consulting the experts. Platform presentation at the 2010 Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Philadelphia, PA. Olness, G.S., & Englebreton, E. F. (2010, May). On "making points" with narratives: The semantics of prominence assignment in narratives of speakers with aphasia. Plenary platform presentation at the 2010 Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Isle of Palms, SC. Note: Student was awarded competitive departmental and college funding to support her travel to this conference.

• Poster conference presentations co-authored with master’s students

Olness, G. S., Brewster, C., & Dutra, R. (2012, October). The effects of aphasia on the use of evaluative expression: Evidence from verbal mimicry in narrative. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, San Francisco, CA. Olness, G. S., van Drunen, V., Hengst, J., & Brewster, C. (2012, May) Form and function of narrative repetition in aphasia: Clinical implications. Poster presentation at the 2012 Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC). Lake Tahoe, CA. Olness, G.S., Kohn, B., & Garner, J. (2011, June). “Transmission of significance”: On the use of evaluative devices by African-American narrators with aphasia. Poster presentation at the 2011 Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Olness, G.S., & Stewart, C. (2007, October). Assigning prominence to information through narrative evaluation: The effects of aphasia severity. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Washington, DC. (Abstract published in proceedings of the meeting, Brain and Language, 103, 230-231.) Olness, G. S., & Pelland, D. L. (2007, February). Narrative topic and evaluation as expressions of ethnicity and self-identity in aphasia. Poster presented at the 2007 Texas Research Symposium on Language Diversity, Austin, Texas.


Student mentorship in research (cont.) (authors in bold are students mentored by Olness)

• Poster conference presentations co-authored with undergraduate student

Olness, G. S., & Gober, J. M. (submitted January 2013, under review). Mild conduction aphasia and narrative functionality: Beyond the assessment of impairment (a case study). Proposal submitted for poster presentation at the 2013 Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC), Tucson, AZ. Note: Student was mentored in an application for competitive NIDCD travel support to attend this conference; application under review. Chazhikat, E., Olness, G. S., & Code, C. (2012, November). Awareness of aphasia and aphasia services in South India. Poster presentation at the annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA. Note: Student was awarded competitive UNT Honors College funding to support her travel to this conference.

• Electronic publication of undergraduate research (University of North Texas Eagle Feather)

Chazhikat, E., (2012). Awareness of aphasia and aphasia services in South India: Public health implications. Eagle Feather, 9 http://web3.unt.edu/honors/eaglefeather/ Smith, M. (2010). The impact of guardianship on the rights of adults with developmental disabilities: A case study. Eagle Feather, 7 (Behavioral Sciences) http://web3.unt.edu/honors/eaglefeather/

• Platform presentations at university Scholars Day by undergraduate students Chazhikat, E., (2012, April). Awareness of aphasia and aphasia services in South India: Public health implications. Platform presentation at the 2012 University of North Texas Scholars Day, Denton, TX. Note: This research project was awarded a Second Place ($400) prize in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Smith, M. (2010, April) The impact of guardianship on the right of individuals with developmental disabilities in Denton County: A case study. Platform presentation at the 2010 University of North Texas Scholars Day, Denton, TX.

• Coordination of volunteer undergraduate research team: Fall 2010 to Spring 2011 Four undergraduates (C. Cerda, J. Gyger, K. Kirby, & K. Luedeker) met together with Olness on a monthly basis to discuss and develop research materials to address research questions.

Student mentorship in service to the profession


• Mentored bicultural, bilingual UNT undergraduate volunteer, Elia Santamaría, who

provided consultation to the National Aphasia Association (NAA), for development of Spanish adaptation of educational DVD “It’s Still Me!” (“¡Sigo Siendo Yo!”) Fall 2010

• Mentored graduate students Elise Englebretson and Jordan Inglis, with co-mentor K.

Thomas, as mentees prepared adults with aphasia for a filmed panel presentation, which was subsequently distributed nationally by the granting agency. Students’ work was supported by a grant awarded to Olness (PD) and Thomas (Co-PD) 2009-2010


Teaching assistantships

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS

• Teaching Assistant, Department of Communication Disorders (6 semesters during 1994 - 1999) Graduate courses "Language and Linguistics”, "Cultural Issues”, and "Aging Brain"

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

• Graduate Teaching Fellow, Linguistics Department, (Fall 1991) "Second Language Acquisition" SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Service to the department Note: No administrative service at UNT during unpaid personal leave in academic year 2007-2008

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS, UNT SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCES

• Director of Graduate Studies, Speech-Language Pathology Master’s Program, 2012-2013

• Graduate Advisor, Speech-Language Pathology Master’s Program, 2012-2013 CHARTER COMMITTEES, UNT SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCES

• Executive Committee, Member, 2012-2013

• Curriculum Committee, Member, 2006-2007; 2009-2010; 2011-2012; 2012-2013

• Personnel Affairs Committee, annual review of tenure-track faculty, Member, 2007; 2009; 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013

• Graduate Admissions Committee Member, 2008-2013 Chair of Admissions for Speech-Language Pathology Master’s Program, 2012-2013

AD-HOC COMMITTEES, UNT SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCES

• Ad-hoc committee to assess feasibility of development of Speech and Hearing Sciences Ph.D. studies with other UNT departments Member, 2012

• Faculty search committee for two tenure-track assistant professor positions, Chair, 2009-2010

• Faculty search committee for visiting assistant professor, Chair, 2009

• Personnel Affairs Sub-committee, annual review of non-tenure faculty, Chair, 2006-2007

• Professional journal ranking, Member, 2006-2007

AD-HOC SERVICE, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS, SCHOOL OF BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

• Second reader/reviewer of doctoral literature review, 2004


Service to the profession

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL

• Grant review panel member/trainee, American Speech-Language Hearing Foundation (ASHF)/ Research and Scientific Affairs Committee (RSAC) Grant Review Meeting, 2008

• Program Committee Member, Clinical Aphasiology Conference, 2007

• Referee for book proposal on pragmatics/discourse, Cambridge University Press, 2007

• Member of National Aphasia Association (NAA) Multicultural Task Force: 2010-Present • National Aphasia Association (NAA) Texas State Representative: 2010-Present

• Associate editor

* = Tier 1 journal

* American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology: Clinical Aphasiology Conference special issue, 2012

• Ad-hoc reviewer for professional journals

* = Tier 1 journal; # = top journal of specialty discipline

* American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC) special issue, 2011

* Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research (JSLHR), 2011

# Aphasiology

Regular Issue, 2010, 2011, 2012 Special Issue on Discourse (H. Wright, Editor), 2011 Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC) special issue, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008,

2009, 2010 Special Issue on Perseveration (J. Stark, Editor), 2006

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2002, 2005

Critical Inquiry in Language Studies: An International Journal (CILS), 2003

* Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2004

• Ad-hoc peer reviewer of on-line educational program, to determine program’s suitability

for professional continuing education credits

SpeechPathology.com, 2012


LOCAL • Coordinating lecture by Dr. Ron Tikofsky of Columbia University Medical Center,

aphasiologist and expert in neuroimaging on UNT Denton campus. Attendees will be clinicial and academic faculty and students of the UNT Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences. February 2013

• Coordinated public lecture by Dr. Audrey Holland of University of Arizona and Adler

Aphasia Center (NJ), international expert on aphasia in Denton, Texas, UNT Gateway Center . 150+ attendees were local clinicians, researchers and students in field of speech-language pathology. January 2011

• Organized public screening of film/DVD “Living with Aphasia: Perspectives of the

Multicultural Advisory Panel on Aphasia (MAP-A)” in Dallas, Texas, Callier Center. 40+ attendees included laypersons with aphasia, and local aphasia therapists and researchers. January 2011

• Coordinated (with K. Thomas, Co-PD) a grant-funded public workshop by Dr. Joan Payne

of Howard University, national expert in multicultural issues and neurogenic communication disorders in Dallas, Texas, Baylor Hospital. 25+ attendees were professionals and students in field of speech-language pathology. October 2009

• Organized monthly aphasia journal group (part of Aphasia Resource and Research

Consortium) Approximately 9 participants per meeting, comprised of area clinicians, clinical faculty, researchers and graduate students from a variety of institutions. Spring 2005 to Spring 2006

• Presented in-service to the Speech-Language Pathology Staff at Denton Regional Medical

Center: “Aphasia and Discourse: Research to Clinical Application”. November 2006 • Presented (by invitation) at the meeting of the Dallas – Fort Worth Aphasiology

Association, Dallas, TX: “Aphasia and Discourse: Clinical Research Efforts in Dallas-Fort Worth”. December 2004

• Co-produced presentation at the monthly clinical staff meeting, Callier Center for Communication Disorders, Dallas, TX: “Discourse of African Americans with Aphasia” with H. Ulatowska, M. Keebler, and J. Thompson. February 2002

• Presented (by invitation) at the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Clinical Forum for associates of Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital, Lisle, IL: “Communication in normal aging: Changes in discourse and inference skills”. May 1998

Service to the local lay community

DEVELOPMENT OF STROKE/APHASIA SELF-ADVOCACY GROUP

• Developer of a multicultural aphasia self-advocacy panel (Multicultural Advisory Panel on Aphasia, MAP-A) composed of individuals who have aphasia from north-central Texas. Development supported through grant funding awarded to G. Olness (PD) and K. Thomas (co-PD): 2010


PRESENTATION TO STROKE/APHASIA SUPPORT GROUPS

• Presentation to Vickery Towers (Dallas) Stroke Survivors Support Group: “Aphasia and Stroke: Local Resources and Research”. December 2005

• Presentation to Methodist Dallas Medical Center Stroke Support Group: “‘Telling the

Story’ in Aphasia”. September 2005 SERVICE TO LAY ORGANIZATION

• Keynote presentation at Spring Awards meeting of the Dallas Branch of the American Association of University Women, Dallas, Texas. May 2005

• Presentation to Plano/Collin County Branch of the American Association of University

Women on AAUW-funded career history; Davis Library, Plano, Texas. January 2003 • Program Vice-President, American Association of University Women-Dallas. 1995 – 1996 • Presentation to Southwest Dallas County Branch of the American Association of

University Women, “Considering Our Assumptions about Aging” at the South Campus of the University of North Texas, Dallas, Texas. October 2000

SERVICE TO LOCAL YOUNG SCIENTISTS • Grand Prize Judge, Junior Division Life Sciences, Dallas Regional Science and

Engineering Fair. March 2005 • Joint Chairperson for "Expanding Your Horizons in Science and Mathematics" career

conference for 240 young women in Grades 7 and 8 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, sponsored by the Dallas Branch of the AAUW and Southern Methodist University. August 1992 -February 1993 Responsibilities included arranging for slate of 20+ women presenters in math- and science-related careers, and coordinating the event with host university

• Presenter at "Expanding Your Horizons in Science and Mathematics," career conference

for young women in Grades 7 and 8, sponsored by the Dallas Branch of the AAUW. March 1995

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (in reverse chronological order) Principal author is underlined. Dual and multiple-authored publications are recognized as the norm in the field (Addendum, Dept. P&T Criteria, p. 3), with order of authorship ranked by relative author contribution. All peer-reviewed and invited publications within last eleven years were published in Tier 1 or Tier 2 journals (Addendum, Dept. Journal Ranking List) * = peer-reviewed journal publication; ∞ = peer-reviewed conference abstract publication; £ = invited journal publication; G = results from research grant on which Olness is PI/PD G Matteson, S. E., Olness, G. S., & Caplow, N. J. (initial submission 2011, most recent

revised submission November 2012, currently under review). Toward a quantitative account of pitch distribution in spontaneous narrative: Method and validation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) (Research collaboration that forms the basis of this work, submitted to a prestigious Tier 1 journal, began in Fall 2008)


∞ G Olness, G., Brewster, C., & Dutra, R. (2012). The effects of aphasia on the use of

evaluative expression: Evidence from verbal mimicry in narrative. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 61, 230-231. (Peer-reviewed published of abstract associated with poster presentation at the October 2012 meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, San Francisco, CA)

* £ G Olness, G. S., Gyger, J., & Thomas, K. (2012). Analysis of narrative functionality: Toward evidence-based approaches in managed care settings. Seminars in Speech and Language (Special Issue - Discourse Across Disorders: Acquired Neurogenic Conditions), 33, 55-67. DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1301163 (Invited submission peer-reviewed by special issue editor, E. Armstrong, and journal editor, A. Holland)

∞ Olness, G. S., & Muñoz, M. (2011). Toward an expanded operationalization of the verbal expression of affective meanings. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 23, 217-218. (Peer-reviewed published abstract associated with poster presentation at the October 2011 meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

* G Olness, G.S., & Englebretson, E.F. (2011). On the coherence of information highlighted by narrators with aphasia. Aphasiology, 25, 713-726. DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2010.537346

* £ G Olness, G. S., & Ulatowska, H. K. (2011). Personal narratives in aphasia: Coherence in the context of use. Aphasiology (Special Issue – Discourse in Aphasia), 25, 1393-1413. DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2011.599365 (Invited submission peer-reviewed by anonymous peers)

£ Ulatowska, H. K., & Olness, G. S. (2011). Kilka uwag o znaczeniu badań nad afazją dla teorii narracji [Some observations on narratives by aphasics and their contributions to narrative theory] (A. Kinecka & B. Zakrzewski, Trans., with cooperation of J. Kordys & G. Grochowski). Teksty Drugie [Second Texts], 1/2 Język, Umysł, Mózg [Language, Mind, Brain], 183-189. (Reprint in Polish translation of the original English version from Journal of Narrative and Life History, 7, 259-264, 1997) (Invited contribution to periodical of the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences.)

* G Olness, G.S., Matteson, S.E., & Stewart, C. T. (2010). “Let me tell you the point”: How speakers with aphasia assign prominence to information in narratives. Aphasiology, 24, 697-708. DOI: 10.1080/02687030903438524

∞ G Olness, G.S., & Stewart, C. (2007). Assigning prominence to information through narrative evaluation: The effects of aphasia severity. Brain and Language, 103, 230-231. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.07.018 (Peer-reviewed published abstract associated with poster presentation at the October 2007 meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Washington, DC)

* £ Ulatowska, H. K. & Olness, G. S. (2007). Pragmatics in discourse performance: Insights from aphasiology. Seminars in Speech and Language (Special Issue - Pragmatics and Adult Language Disorders), 28, 148-157. DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-970572 (Invited submission peer-reviewed by special issue editor, L. Cummings, and journal editor, A. Holland)

∞ Ulatowska, H., Olness, G., Keebler, M., & Tillery, J. (2006). Evaluation in stroke narratives: A study in aphasia. Brain and Language, 99, 61-62. DOI: 10.1016/j.band1.2006.06.040 (Peer-reviewed published abstract associated with poster


presentation at the October 2006 meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Victoria, Canada)

All publications that appear later than this point (higher in the listing) are associated with tenure period at University of North Texas

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* G Olness, G. S. (2006). Genre, verb, and coherence in picture-elicited discourse of adults with aphasia. Aphasiology, 20, 175-187. DOI: 10.1080/02687030500472710

∞ Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., & Williams-Hubbard, L. J. (2005). Macrostructure revisited: An examination of gist responses in aphasia. Brain and Language, 95, 109-110. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.07.059 (Peer-reviewed published abstract associated with poster presentation at the October 2005 meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.)

* Olness, G. S., Ulatowska, H. K., Carpenter, C. M., Williams-Hubbard, L. J., & Dykes, J. C. (2005). Holistic assessment of narrative quality: A social validation study. Aphasiology, 19, 251-262. DOI: 10.1080/02687030444000723

∞ Ulatowska, H. K., & Olness, G. S., & Williams, L. J. (2004). Coherence of narratives in aphasia. Brain and Language, 91, 42-43. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2004.06.024 (Peer-reviewed published abstract associated with poster presentation at the October, 2004 meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Chicago, IL, USA).

* Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., Samson, A. M., Keebler, M. W., & Goins, K. E. (2004). On the nature of personal narratives of high quality. Advances in Speech Language Pathology, 6(1), 3-14.

∞ Ulatowska, H. K., & Olness, G. S. (2003). On the nature of direct speech in narratives of African Americans with aphasia. Brain and Language, 87, 69-70. DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00202-5 (Peer-reviewed published abstract associated with poster presentation at the October, 2003 meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Vienna, Austria).

* Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., Wertz, R. T., Samson, A. M., Keebler, M. W., & Goins, K. E. (2003). Relationship between discourse and Western Aphasia Battery performance in African Americans with aphasia. Aphasiology, 17, 511-521. DOI: 10.1080/02687030344000102

* Olness, G. S., Ulatowska, H. K., Wertz, R.T., Thompson, J. L., & Auther-Steffan, L. L. (2002). Discourse elicitation with pictorial stimuli in African Americans and Caucasians with and without aphasia. Aphasiology, 16, 623-633.

∞ Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., Wertz, R. T., & Hill, C. L. (2002). Patterns of verb use in narratives of African Americans with aphasia. Brain and Language, 83, 57-59. PII S0093-934X(02)00079-2 (Peer-reviewed published abstract associated with platform presentation at the October, 2002 meeting of Academy of Aphasia, New York, New York).

* Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., Wertz, R. T., Thompson, J. L., Keebler, M. W., Hill, C. L., & Auther, L. L. (2001). Comparison of language impairment, functional communication, and discourse measures in African-American aphasic and normal adults. Aphasiology, 15, 1007-1016.


£ Ulatowska, H. K., & Olness, G. S. (2001) Dialectal variants of verbs in narratives of African Americans with aphasia: Some methodological considerations. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 14, 93-110. DOI: 10.1016/S0911-6044(01)00010-0 (Also published in M. Paradis (Ed.), Manifestations of aphasia symptoms in different languages (pp. 9-26). Amsterdam: Pergamon.)

* Ulatowska, H. K., Wertz, R., Chapman, S., Hill, C., Thompson, J., Keebler, M., Olness, G. Parsons, S., Miller, T., & Auther, L. (2001). Interpretation of fables and proverbs by African-Americans with and without aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 10, 40-50. DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2001/007)

* Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., Hill, C. L., Roberts, J., & Keebler, M. W. (2000) Repetition in narratives of African Americans: The effects of aphasia. Discourse Processes, 30, 265-283. DOI: 10.1207/S15326950dp3003_3

* Ulatowska, H.K., & Olness, G. S. (2000). Discourse revisited: Contributions of lexico-syntactic devices. Brain and Language, 71, 249-251. DOI: 10.1006/brln.1999.2261

* Ulatowska, H.K., & Olness, G. S. (1998). Reflections on the nature of proverbs: Evidence from aphasia. Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, 15, 329-346.

* Ulatowska, H. K., & Olness, G. S. (1997). Some observations on narratives by aphasics and their contributions to narrative theory. Journal of Narrative and Life History, 7, 259-264.

∞ Katz, W., & Olness, G.S. (1995). Idiom processing: Online analyses. Brain and Cognition, 28, 123-124. (Peer-reviewed published abstract associated with poster presentation at TENNET IV, the 1993 Annual Meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology).

* Olness, G. S. (1991). Pronunciation instruction within an integrated curriculum: A curriculum development progress report. Journal of the Oregon Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, 12, 82-91.

* Johnston, J., Blatchley, M, & Olness, G. S. (1990). Miniature language system acquisition by children with different learning proficiencies. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 33, 335-342.

DVD PRODUCTION G Olness, G. & Thomas, K. with funding from the ASHA Office of Multicultural Affairs

(Producers) (2010). Living with aphasia: Perspectives of the multicultural advisory panel on aphasia (MAP-A) [DVD]. Available from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Office of Multicultural Affairs, and held in the collection of the University of North Texas Media Library, call number DVD 13131r

BOOK REVIEW £ Olness, G. S., & Ulatowska, H. K. (2004). Media reviews. [Review of the book

Understanding Storytelling Among African American Children: A Journey from Africa to America]. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 1(2), 113-116. (Authors were invited to provide this review of a new book in the area of narrative production of African Americans, one of the authors’ areas


of specialty study.)

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY £ Ulatowska, H. K., & Olness, G. S. (2004). Discourse. The MIT encyclopedia of

communication disorders (pp. 300-302). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. NEWSPAPER ARTICLE Olness, G. S., & Ramey, L. M. (1991, April 7). Trouble with speech common in

preschoolers. The (Eugene) Register Guard, p. 2F. SOFTWARE MANUAL AND SOFTWARE Streit, G. J., MacLaughlin, B., & Clark, P. (1986). User's Manual for SALT (Systematic

Analysis of Language Transcripts) [computer program by J. F. Miller and R. S. Chapman]. Madison, WI: Language Analysis Laboratory of the Waisman Center on Mental Retardation and Human Development.

Miller, J. F., Johnston J., Nockerts, A., & Streit, G. (1986). Johnston Predicate Analysis [computer program, SALT Implementation, Version 1.0]. Madison, WI: Language Analysis Laboratory of the Waisman Center on Mental Retardation and Human Development.

DISSERTATION AND THESES

Olness, G. S. (2000, May). Expression of narrative main-point inferences in adults: A developmental perspective. Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Human Development and Communication Sciences. (Advisor: Hanna K. Ulatowska)

Olness, G. S. (1993). The influence of pictorial context on lexical-semantic processing of ambiguous auditory homophones: A cross-modal lexical priming experiment. Master's thesis, University of Oregon, Department of Linguistics. (Advisor: Russell Tomlin) Streit, G. J. (1987). Language semantics in Down Syndrome: A comparative study. Master's thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Communicative Disorders. (Advisor: Jon F. Miller)

PRESENTATIONS (in reverse chronological order) ∞ = peer-reviewed conference presentation; £ = invited presentation; N = conference with national audience; I = conference with international audience; G = results from research grant on which Olness is PI/PD ∞ I G Olness, G. S., & Gober, J. M. (submitted January 2013, under review). Mild

conduction aphasia and narrative functionality: Beyond the assessment of impairment (a case study). Proposal submitted for poster presentation at the 2013 Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC), Tucson, AZ.


∞ N Chazhikat, E., Olness, G. S., & Code, C. (2012, November). Awareness of aphasia and aphasia services in South India. Poster presentation at the annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA. (First author is undergraduate student mentored by G. Olness.)

∞ I G Olness, G. S., Brewster, C., & Dutra, R. (2012, October). The effects of aphasia on the use of evaluative expression: Evidence from verbal mimicry in narrative. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, San Francisco, CA.

∞ I G Olness, G. S., van Drunen, V., Hengst, J., & Brewster, C. (2012, May). Form and function of narrative repetition in aphasia: Clinical implications. Poster presentation at the 2012 Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC), Lake Tahoe, CA.

∞ I

Olness, G. S., & Muñoz, M. (2011, October). Toward an expanded operationalization of the verbal expression of affective meanings. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Abstract published in Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 23, 217-218.)

∞ I G

Olness, G.S., Kohn, B., & Garner, J. (2011, June). “Transmission of significance”: On the use of evaluative devices by African-American narrators with aphasia. Poster presentation at the 2011 Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

∞ N G

Olness, G.S., Thomas, K., Englebretson, E., & Inglis, J. (2010, November). Multicultural advisory panel on aphasia (MAP-A): Consulting the Experts. Platform presentation at the 2010 Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Philadelphia, PA.

∞ I G Olness, G.S. & Englebretson, E. F. (2010, May). On “making points” with narratives: The semantics of prominence assignment in narratives of speakers with aphasia. Plenary platform presentation at the 2010 Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Isle of Palms, SC.

£ Olness, G. S. (2010, May). Clinical discourse analysis. Presentation to University of North Texas Linguistics Circle, Denton, TX. (Evening of presentations by UNT faculty who specialize in discourse analysis; organized by S. Chelliah)

∞ I G Olness, G.S. (2009, May). “Let me tell you the point”: How speakers with aphasia assign prominence to information in narratives. Poster presentation at the annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Keystone, CO.

£ Olness, G. S. (2009, April). How speakers with aphasia selectively assign prominence to information in narratives: Theoretical and clinical implications. Presentation at the University of Texas at Dallas Callier Center FLASH Lecture Series, Dallas, TX.

∞ £ Olness, G. S. (2009, March). Toward functional assessment of discourse production abilities of individuals with aphasia. Platform presentation at the 2010 Annual Convention of the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association (TSHA). Fort Worth, TX.

∞ N G Olness, G. S. (2009, November). Applications of discourse production research: Toward functional assessment of aphasia. Platform presentation at the 2009


Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). New Orleans, LA.

∞ I G Olness, G.S. (2008, June). Rehabilitation of the ability to make a ‘point’ using personal narratives: A data-based exploration of approaches. Plenary platform presentation at the 2008 International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference (IARC), Ljubljana, Slovenia.

∞ I G

Olness, G. S. & Matteson, S. E. (2008, March). Expression of one’s point of view by universal means: Narrative evaluation in language dissolution. Poster presentation at the Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics, Washington, DC.

∞ I G

Olness, G.S., & Stewart, C. (2007, October). Assigning prominence to information through narrative evaluation: The effects of aphasia severity. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Washington, DC. (Abstract published in proceedings of the meeting, Brain and Language, 103, 230-231.)

∞ I G Olness, G. S. (2007, May). Narrative structure in aphasia: Impact of task and aphasia severity. Plenary platform presentation at the 2007 Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona.

∞ G Olness, G. S., & Pelland, D. L. (2007, February). Narrative topic and evaluation as expressions of ethnicity and self-identity in aphasia. Poster presentation at the 2007 Texas Research Symposium on Language Diversity, Austin, Texas.

∞ Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., & Candia, L. (2007, February). Evaluation in narratives of adults with aphasia: Does culture matter? Poster presentation at the 2007 Texas Research Symposium on Language Diversity, Austin, Texas.

∞ I Ulatowska, H., Olness, G. S., Keebler, M., & Tillery, J. (2006, October). Evaluation in stroke narratives: A study in aphasia. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. (Abstract published in proceedings of the meeting, Brain and Language, 99, 61-62.)

All presentations that appear later than this point (higher in the listing) are associated with tenure period at University of North Texas

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∞ I G Olness, G. S. (2006, June). Structural assessment of narratives: Some issues and illustrative data. Plenary platform presentation at the annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Ghent, Belgium.

∞ I Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., & Williams-Hubbard, L. J. (2005, October). Macrostructure revisited: An examination of gist responses in aphasia. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Abstract published in proceedings of the meeting, Brain and Language, 95, 109-110.)

∞ I G Olness, G. S. (2005, May). Discourse genre and verb performance in picture-elicited discourse of adults with aphasia. Plenary platform presentation at the annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Sanibel Island, Florida.


∞ Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., Keebler, M. W., Carpenter, C. M., Haynes, S., & Williams-Hubbard, L. J. (2005, February). Effects of conversational topics and ethnicity in aphasia group settings. Poster presentation at the Texas Research Symposium on Language Diversity, Austin, TX.

£ N G Olness, G. S., & Moshay, B. R. (2004, November). Securing research participants from diverse backgrounds: Focus on Adults (Part I). Invited platform presentation at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA. (Presentation invited by the Research and Scientific Affairs Committee of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)

∞ I Ulatowska, H. K., & Olness, G. S., & Williams, L. J. (2004, October). Coherence of narratives in aphasia. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Chicago, IL. (Abstract published in proceedings of the meeting, Brain and Language, 91, 42-43.)

∞ I Olness, G. S., Ulatowska, H. K., Carpenter, C., Williams, L., & Dykes, J. (2004, May). Toward holistic assessment of narrative quality: A clinical perspective. Poster presentation at the annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Park City, UT.

∞ I Ulatowska, H. K., & Olness, G. S. (2003, October). On the nature of direct speech in narratives of African Americans with aphasia. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Vienna, Austria. (Abstract published in proceedings of the meeting, Brain and Language, 87, 69-70.)

∞

Olness, G. S., Ulatowska, H. K., Keebler, M. W. (2003, April). Assessing narrative production in culturally and linguistically diverse populations with aphasia. Platform presentation at the annual meeting of the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Dallas, TX.

∞ Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., & Dykes, J. C. (2003, February/March). Manifestations of ethnicity in narratives of African Americans. Poster presentation at the Texas Symposium on Language Diversity, Austin, TX.

∞ N Wertz, T., Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., Hill, C. L., Keebler, M. W., & Auther, L. L. (2002, November). Differences in aphasia between African Americans and Caucasians. Platform presentation at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.

Wertz, R. T., Auther, L. L., Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G., & Thompson, J. (2002, February). Cultural influences on aphasia in African Americans. Poster presentation at the Third VA Rehabilitation R&D Meeting, Arlington, VA.

∞ N Olness, G. S., Ulatowska, H. K., Wertz, R. T., Keebler, M. W., & Thompson, J. L. (2001, November). Methodological guidelines for assessing discourse in adult ethnically diverse populations. Platform presentation at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, LA.

∞ I Ulatowska, H. K., & Olness, G. S. (2001, August). Dialectal variants of verbs in narratives of African Americans with aphasia: Some methodological considerations.


Platform presentation at the 2001 triennial meeting of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, Montreal, Canada.

∞ I Olness, G. S., Ulatowska, H. K., Wertz, R. T., Thompson, J. L., & Auther-Steffen, Linda L. (2001, June). Discourse elicitation with pictorial stimuli in African Americans and Caucasians with and without aphasia. Plenary platform presentation at the 2001 Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Santa Fe, NM.

∞ Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., Wertz, R. T., Thompson, J. L., & Keebler, M. W. (2001, February). Preservation and impairment of ethnic features in African Americans with aphasia. Poster presentation at the Texas Symposium on Language Diversity, Austin, TX.

∞ I Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., Wertz, R. T., Thompson, J., Keebler, M. W., Hill, C. L., & Auther, L. (2000, May). Narrative discourse in African-American aphasic and normal adults. Poster presentation at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Kona Coast, HI.

∞ N Olness, G. S. (1999, November). Principled discourse comprehension testing: Differentiating normal aging effects from pathology. Platform presentation at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Francisco, CA.

∞ N Olness, G. S. (1999, November). Proverbs as textual summaries: Trans-generational differences in frequency and form of expression. Poster presentation at the 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.

∞ N Ulatowska, H. K., Hill, C. L., Keebler, M. W., Olness, G. S., Parsons, S., & Wertz, R., (1999, November). Discourse production in African Americans with aphasia. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Francisco, CA.

∞ Ulatowska, H., Chapman, S. B., Hill, C., Thompson, J., Keebler, M., Olness, G., Parsons, S. & Wertz, R. T. (1999, February). Discourse production in African Americans with aphasia. Plenary platform presentation at the 1999 Texas Research Symposium on Language Diversity, Austin, TX.

∞ N Olness, G. S. (1998, November). Narrative main-point inferences across the life span. Poster presentation at the 51st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Philadelphia, PA.

∞ Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., & Chapman, S. B. (1997, February). Ethnographic approach to proverb assessment in aphasia. Poster presentation at the 1997 Research Symposium on Language Diversity in Multicultural Communication Sciences and Disorders, Austin, TX.

∞ I Katz, W., & Olness, G. (1993, May). Idiom processing: On-line analyses. Poster presentation at Tennet IV, An Annual Meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.


∞ I Katz, W., Olness, G. S., Baum, S., & Kim, J. (1992, October). Compensatory articulation in Broca's aphasia. Poster presentation at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

∞ Olness, G. S., & Carroll, K. (1991, October). A referral-based pronunciation program for non-native speakers. Platform presentation at the annual meeting of the Oregon Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Neskowin, OR.

Olness, G. S. (1991, January). Functor word comprehension in Broca's aphasia: An on-line methodology. Colloquium presentation sponsored by the University of Oregon Department of Linguistics and the Institute for Cognitive and Decision Sciences, Eugene, OR.

ADDITIONAL PLATFORM PRESENTATIONS, DELIVERED BY CO-AUTHORS ∞ = peer-reviewed conference presentation N = conference with national audience; I = conference with international audience ∞ I Ulatowska, H. K., & Olness, G. S. (2003, May). Narrative elicitation in culturally diverse

populations: Guidelines from discourse research with African Americans. Platform presentation at the inaugural conference of the International Society for Language Studies, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

∞ I Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., Wertz, R. T., & Hill, C. L. (2002, October). Patterns of verb use in narratives of African Americans with aphasia. Plenary platform presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, New York, NY. (Abstract printed in proceedings of the meeting, Brain and Language, 83, 57-59.)

∞ I Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., Wertz, R. T., Samson, A., Keebler, M., & Goins, K. (2002, May/June). Relationship between Western Aphasia Battery and discourse performance in African Americans with aphasia. Plenary platform presentation presented at the annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Ridgedale, MO.

∞ N Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., Hill, C. L., Samson, A., & Goins, K. (2002, April). The influence of aphasia on narrative quality in African Americans. Platform presentation at the meeting of the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing. Raleigh, NC.

∞ N Wertz, R. T., Ulatowska, H. K., Olness, G. S., Keebler, M. W., & Thompson, M. L. (2001, November). Western Aphasia Battery sensitivity and specificity: A multicultural comparison. Platform presentation at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, LA.

∞ N Wertz, R. T., Ulatowska, H., Wallace, G., Payne, J., Chapman, S., Auther-Steffen, L. L., Olness, G., & Thompson, J. (2000, November). A comparison of aphasia in African Americans and Caucasians. Seminar platform presentation at the meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Washington, DC.

∞ N Ulatowska, H. K., Wertz, R. T., Chapman, S. B., Hill, C. L., Thompson, J. L., Keebler, M. W., Olness, G. S., Parsons, S. D., Miller, T., & Auther, L L. (1999, November).


Interpretation of proverbs by African Americans with aphasia. Platform presentation at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Francisco, CA.

∞ I Ulatowska, H. K, & Olness, G. S. (1997, September). Investigating proverbs in neurolinguistics. Platform presentation at the EuroCongress of Phraseology, Liptovy Jan, Slovakia.

∞ I Chapman, S. B., Ulatowska, H. K., Branch, C., & Olness, G. S. (1994, June). Summarization in mild aphasia: A potential index of cognitive/linguistic abilities. Plenary platform presentation at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Traverse City, MI.

∞ N Miller, J. F., Streit, G., Salmon, D, & LaFollette, L. (1987, November). Developmental synchrony in the language of children with Down Syndrome. Platform presentation at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, LA.

∞ N Miller, J., Streit, G., & Salmon, D. (1987, May). Monitoring speech, language and cognitive development in children with Down Syndrome. Platform presentation at the 111th meeting of the American Association on Mental Deficiency, Los Angeles, CA.

∞ N Miller, J. F., Streit, G. J., Ross, C. S., & Cavicchio, M. E. (1985, November). The development of past tense: Lexical vs. morphological change. Platform presentation at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Washington, D.C.

∞ N Johnston, J., Blatchley, M., & Streit, G. (1985, June). Miniature language system learning by normal and language disordered children. Plenary platform presentation at the annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (EXCLUDES CONFERENCES AT WHICH PRESENTATIONS OF POSTERS WERE DELIVERED)

20th Annual NIDCD-Sponsored Research Symposium on Neural Plasticity at ASHA Convention, Pittsburgh, PA; November 20, 2010. Symposium on application of principles of neuroplasticity to rehabilitation research. Seminar, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, “The Challenge of Multimodality for Corpus Linguistics” May 21-23, 2008 Seminar on theories and methods associated with analysis of the interaction of linguistic text with other modalities (intonation and gesture)

On-site, interactive visit to Connect, the communication disability network (London, England, United Kingdom), a British national charity dedicated to improving life for people with aphasia and other communication disabilities, May 16, 2008 Exchange of ideas, toward development of a local aphasia support, research, and advocacy network in the Dallas-FortWorth-Denton metroplex


British Aphasiology Society Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, September 10-12, 2007. Exchange of ideas with British researchers working in my research area Reprogramming the Human Brain: Translating Brain Plasticity Research into Clinical Practice, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, April 7-8, 2005 The 1999 Bruton Conference: Clinical Updates in Adult Language Disorders: The Use and Abuse of Pragmatics in Aphasia, Right CVA, Dementia, and TBI, Callier Center for Communication Disorders, Dallas, TX, March 27, 1999 28th Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Asheville, NC, June 14-17, 1998 50th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Cincinnati, OH, November 14-18, 1997 The 1996 Bruton Conference: Pragmatics of Communication in Culturally Diverse Adult Clinical Populations: Applications to Diagnosis and Treatment, Dallas, TX September 27-28, 1996 International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference, Cambridge, MA, August 20-23, 1996 32nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Cambridge, MA, October 23-35, 1994

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