VITA

 

BERNARD G. GRELA

EDUCATION

 

1994-1999       Doctor of Philosophy.  Audiology and Speech Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

Major emphasis: Child language development and disorders, phonological development and disorders.  Minor emphasis: Adult language disorders.

1987-1989       Master of Science.  Audiology and Speech Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

1981-1985       Bachelor of Arts.  Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

1999-present   Assistant Professor.  Communication Sciences.  University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.

1999                Lecturer.  Audiology and Speech Sciences.  Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

1997-1999       Clinical Supervisor. Audiology and Speech Sciences.  Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

1994-1999       Research Assistant.  Audiology and Speech Sciences.  Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. 

1989-1994       Speech‑Language Pathologist. Regina Rural Health Region, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND CERTIFICATION

 

2001-2004       Connecticut Speech and Hearing Association.

1989-2001       Canadian Association of Speech‑Language Pathologists and Audiologists  (C-SLP)

1989-2001       Saskatchewan Association of Speech‑Language Pathologist and Audiologists (SK)

1988-2004       American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (CCC-SLP)

 

 

GRANTS

 

2003                American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation 2003 Research Grants for New Investigators ($4,928: not funded).

2003                American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Century Scholars Program Research Grant Competition ($9,615: not funded).

2002-2003University of Connecticut Research Advisory Council Large Grant                   (Amount Awarded: $14, 663).

2000-2001University of Connecticut Research Advisory Council Large Grant                   (Amount Awarded: $9,000).

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

 

1997                American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Editor's Award in Language (See Leonard, Eyer, Bedore, & Grela, 1997).

1997                Weinberg Student Travel Award.

1989                Outstanding Student Clinician, Indiana Speech and Hearing Association.

1989                Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

1987-1989              Saskatchewan Health Training Bursary for Speech-Language Pathology.

 

SERVICE

 

2004                Member of the Cognitive Science Steering Committee

2000-2003       Interdisciplinary Committee for an Undergraduate Program in Cognitive Sciences

1999-2004       Representative for the Department of Communication Sciences – Disorders at the Spring and Fall Open Houses

1999- 2004      Graduate Admissions Committee for Speech-Language Pathology

                        M.A. – SLP Curriculum Committee, Committee Chair

                        Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

                        NSSLHA Faculty Representative

 

OUTSIDE SERVICE

 

1999-2000       Speech and Language consultant for Helping Our Mothers in Education (HOME) Preschool, Hartford, Connecticut           

           

CONTINUING EDUCATION

 

2004                American Speech and Hearing Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA

2003                American Speech and Hearing Association Convention, Chicago, IL

2002                American Speech and Hearing Association Convention, Atlanta, GA

2002                Joint Conference of the IX International Congress for the Study of Child Language and the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI

2001                22nd Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI

2000                American Speech and Hearing Association Convention, Washington, DC

2000                21st Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI

1999                American Speech and Hearing Association Convention, San Francisco, CA

20th  Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI

1998                19th  Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI

1997                18th  Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI

                        American Speech and Hearing Association Convention, Boston, MA

1996                17th  Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI

1995                16th  Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

 

TEACHING

 

CDIS 363 Literacy and Children with Language Impairments (University of Connecticut)

                        CDIS 349 Language Management (University of Connecticut)

                        CDIS 348 Language Assessment  (University of Connecticut)

                        CDIS 253 Introduction to Language Pathologies in Children (University of Connecticut)

COMS 252 Introduction to Language Pathologies (University of Connecticut)

                        CDIS 202 Speech and Language Acquisition (University of Connecticut)

AUS 421 Introduction to Developmental Speech and Language Disorders (Purdue University)

 

 BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

PUBLICATIONS (Peer Reviewed)

 

Grela, B. G., Johnson, V., & Lin, Y. (submitted May, 2005). Lexical aspect and past tense morphology in African American English. American Speech.

 

Krcmar, M., Grela, B. G., & Lin, Y. J. (submitted August, 2004). Learning vocabulary from television: Toddlers, teletubbies, and attention. Communication Research.

 

Grela, B. G., & McLaughlin, K. (in press). Focused stimulation used for a child with autism spectrum disorder: A treatment study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

 

Grela, B. G., Snyder, W., & Hiramatsu, K. (in press). The production of novel root compounds in children with specific language impairment. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics.

 

Coelho, C. A., Grela, B. G., Corso, M., Gamble, A., & Feinn, R. (in press). Microlinguistic impairments in the narrative discourse of adults with closed head injury. Brain Injury.

 

Grela, B. G., Rashiti, L., & Soares, M. (2004). Dative prepositions in children with specific language impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics, 25, 467-480.

 

Grela, B. G., Krcmar, M., & Lin, Y.J. (2004, May 18). Can television help toddlers acquire new words? Retrieved May 18, 2004, from http://www.speechpathology.com/articles/arc_disp.asp?article_id=72&catid=491.

 

Grela, B. G. (2003). Production based theories may account for subject omission in normal children and children with SLI. Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, 27, 221-228.

 

Grela, B. G. (2003). Do children with Down syndrome have difficulty with argument structure? Journal of Communication Disorders, 36, 263-279.

 

Grela, B. G. (2003). The omission of subject arguments in children with specific language impairment. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 17, 153-169.

 

Grela, B. G. (2002). Lexical diversity in children with Down syndrome. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 16, 251-263.

 

Grela, B. G., &  Leonard, L. B. (2000).  The influence of sentence complexity on the use of auxiliary verbs by children with SLI.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 43, 1115-1125.

 

Leonard, L. B., Miller, C. A., Grela, B. G., Holland, A. L., Gerber, E., & Petucci, M. (2000).  Production operations contribute to the grammatical morpheme limitations of children with specific language impairment. Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 362-378.

 

Grela, B. G. (1999). The influence of argument structure complexity and sentence length on morphosyntax in children with specific language impairment. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Purdue University, West Lafayette.

 

Grela, B., & Gandour, J. (1999). Stress shift in aphasia: a multiple case study. Aphasiology, 13, 151-166.

 

            Grela, B., & Gandour, J. (1998). Locus of functional impairment in the production

            of speech rhythm after brain damage: A preliminary study. Brain and Language, 64, 361-376.

 

Grela, B., & Illerbrun, D. (1998). Evaluating rural preschool speech‑language

            services: Consumer satisfaction. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 45, 203-216.

 

Grela, B. G., and Leonard, L. B. (1997). Subject arguments in children with specific

            language impairment. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 11, 443‑454.

 

Leonard, L. B., Eyer, J. M., Bedore, L. M., & Grela, B. G. (1997). Three accounts of the grammatical morpheme difficulties of English‑speaking children with specific language impairment, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 40, 741‑753.

 

Illerbrun, D., & Grela, B. (1997). Preschool language intervention: teacher perceptions at kindergarten and grade one. Exceptional Education Canada, 7, 3-17.

 

INVITED PAPER

 

Krcmar, M., & Grela, B. (2004). Teletubbies teaches first words? Literacy Today, 39, 19.

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

Grela, B. G. (2005, June). Acquisition of verbs with fixed and alternating argument frames. Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

 

Cienkowski, K., & Grela, B. G. (2004, November). Is auditory-visual fusion influenced by the mental lexicon? Poster presented at the American Speech and Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA.

 

Grela, B. G. (2004, August). Metalinguistic skills and narratives in children with cognitive deficits. Inservice presented to the speech and language staff in the Wolcott School District, Wolcott, CT.

 

Grela B. G. (2004, March). Preschool assessment and intervention: How does it fit with Connecticut’s preschool assessment framework? Inservice presented to the speech and language staff in the Farmington School District, Farmington, CT.

 

Grela, B. G., Krcmar, M., & Lin, Y. (2003, November). Can television be used to teach vocabulary to toddlers? Poster presented at the American Speech and Hearing Association Convention, Chicago, IL.

 

Lin, Y., Johnson, V., & Grela, B. G. (2003, November). Telicity and past tense marking in African American English-speaking children. Poster presented at the American Speech and Hearing Association Convention, Chicago, IL.

 

McLaughlin, K., & Grela, B. G. (2003, November). Using focused stimulation to treat a child with ASD.

Poster presented at the American Speech and Hearing Association Convention, Chicago, IL.

 

Grela, B. G. (2002, December). A psycholinguistic approach to children with specific language impairment. Colloquium presentation to the Cognitive Science Focus at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

 

Grela, B. G., Rashiti, L., & Soares, M. (2002, November). Preposition errors in children with specific language impairment. Poster presented at the American Speech and Hearing Association Convention, Atlanta, GA.

 

Grela, B. G., Snyder, W., & Hiramatsu, K. (2002, July). The production of novel root compounds in children with specific language impairment. Paper presented at Joint Conference of the IX International Congress for the Study of Child Language and the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

 

Rashiti, L., Soares, M., & Grela, B. G. (2002, April). Preposition errors in children with specific language impairment. Poster presented at the University of Connecticut Frontiers 2002 in Undergraduate Research:  Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, Storrs, CT.

 

Grela, B. G., & Snyder, W. (2001, December). The production of compounds in children with SLI. Paper presented at the UConn/UMass/Smith Language Acquisition Workshop, Storrs, CT.

 

Grela, B. G., (2001, May). Omission of subjects in children with SLI. Poster presented at the Connecticut Speech and Hearing Association Conference, West Hartford, CT.

 

Grela, B. G. (2000, November). Omission of subjects in children with SLI. Poster presented at the American Speech and Hearing Association Convention, Washington, DC.

 

Smith, A., & Grela, B. G. (2000, November). Verb use in children with Down syndrome.  Poster presented at the American Speech and Hearing Association Convention, Washington, DC.

 

Grela, B. G. (2000, March). The influence of argument structure complexity on the use of auxiliary verbs by children with SLI.  Paper presented to the Faculty and Graduate Students in the Department of Linguistics, UConn, Storrs, CT.

 

Grela, B. G. (1998, May). What is specific language impairment?  Paper presented

            to the Regina Public School Speech-Language Pathologists, Regina, SK.

 

Illerbrun, D., & Grela, B. (1998, August). Children's early school performance following preschool language intervention. Paper presented at the 24th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

 

Grela, B. G., & Gandour, J. T. (1997, November). Stress clash phenomena in

            aphasia. Poster presented at the American Speech and Hearing Association Convention, Boston, MA.

 

Grela, B. G., & Leonard, L. B. (1996, June). Subjects arguments in children with

             specific language impairment. Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.