Dr. Lesley B. Olswang

University of Washington

College of Arts and Sciences

Speech and Hearing Sciences

ProfessorAppointed: 1981

Mailing Address

1417 NE 42nd Street

Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences

Seattle, Washington 98105

United States

Phone: (206) 543-7974

Fax: (206) 543-1093

Ph.D., University of Washington, Speech and Hearing Sciences, 1978.

Social Communication in Children, with a particular emphasis on infants and school-age children.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Language Acquisition and Development, Speech and Language Disorders.

Disorders/clinical Processes, Infant Early Signals of Communication, Language Development, Social Communication in the Classroom.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

2004-2005, Marsha Landolt Graduate Mentor Award, University of Washington - Graduate School, University of Washington

1994-1995, Fulbright Scholar, Fulbright Foundation, University of Reading, University of Edinburgh

1996, Asha Fellow, American Speech, Language, Hearing Association

2004, Clinical Achievement Award, Washington State Speech, Language, Hearing Association

Timler G, Olswang L, Coggins T (2005) "Do I Know What I need to Do?" A social communication intervention for children with complex clinical profiles, Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 36, 73-85
Rodriguez B, Olswang L B (2003) Mexican-American and Anglo-American mothers' beliefs and values about child rearing, education, and language impairment, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 452-462
Olswang L, Svensson L, Coggins T, Beilinson J, Donaldson A, Reliability issues and solutions for coding social communication performance in classroom settings, Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, In Press

Last Updated: 5/6/2006

COS Expertise ID #320292

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