Jamie D. Fisher | Child Language and Literacy Lab

Jamie D. Fisher, (Dissertation Title:Complex syntax production in preschool teacher talk, 2013) completed her PhD in August 2013. She received a B.S. (2005) in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Tennessee State University and a M.A. (2007) in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Cincinnati. As an undergraduate Jamie completed a summer research internship at the University of Maryland, College Park with Dr. Nan Berstein-Ratner. She completed a master's thesis, Head Start Teachers’ and Low Socio-Economic Status Parents’ Vocabulary Usage, with Dr. Nancy Creaghead.

Conference Presentations

Dunn Davidson, M., Schuele, C. M., Fisher, J., Combs, S., Krimm, H., & Dickinson, D. (2012, November). Preschool teacher talk: What relates to more complex syntax. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.

Werfel, K., Lancaster, H., Weiler, B., Fisher, J., Barako Arndt, K., Guillot, K., & Schuele, C. M. (2011, November). Explicit phonemic awareness skills of graduate students at program entry. Poster at The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA.

Fisher, J., Schuele, C. M., Dickinson, D., & Combs, S. (2011, June). Head Start teachers' complex syntax production. Poster presentation presented at the Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

Fisher, J. & Schuele, C. M. (2011, April). Preschool teacher talk: An analysis of complex syntax production. Poster presented National Black Association of Speech-Language and Hearing, Indianapolis, IN.

Fisher, J., Barako-Arndt, K., Guillot, K., Schuele, C.M., & Combs, S. (2010, November). Preschool teacher talk: How much complex syntax is in there? Poster session presented at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Fisher, J., & Schuele, C.M. (2010, April). Elicited infinitival complement production by preschool children. Poster session presented at the National Black Association Speech Language and Hearing Annual Convention, Tampa, FL.

Fisher, J. & Schuele, C. M. (2010, April). SES and age effects on the production of infinitival complements in preschoolers. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the National Black Association for Speech-Language-Hearing,Tampa, FL.

Craig, J., Fisher, J., Acquaah-Harrison, T., Lineback, A., Makoba, L., Werfel, K., & Schuele, C.M. (2009, November). Increasing preschool teacher knowledge of speech-language and literacy. Poster session presented at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, LA.

Schuele, C.M., Brako-Arndt, K., Spencer, E., Guillot, K., Werfel, K., & Fisher, J. (2009, November). Preschoolers' production of relative clauses in elicited tasks. Poster session presented at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, LA.

Fisher, J. & Schuele, C. M. (2009, April). SES influences on preschoolers performance on the Preschool Language Scale and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. Poster session Seminar presented at the Annual Convention of the National Black Association for Speech-Language-Hearing, Atlanta, GA.

Schuele,C. M. & Fisher, J. (2009, April). Complex syntax: A neglected area of study. Seminar presented at the Annual Convention of the National Black Association for Speech-Language-Hearing, Atlanta, GA.

Awards

Travel Award to the Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders

Dissertation Fellowship, Southeast Education Regional Board

Research Information

Her research interests include language and literacy skills of typically developing children, children with specific language impairment, children from diverse cultural backgrounds (including children who use African American English and children of varying socio-economic status) and preschool teacher talk. She has presented her research at local, regional, and national conferences. Jamie was a trainee on a Leadership Training Grant from the US Department of Education, Preparing Teachers/Scholars in Language and Literacy, (PI: Schuele) and was a recipient of the Southern Regional Education Board Dissertation Award.