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Janna B. Oetting, Ph.D.
Professor
Office: 78 Hatcher Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225/578-3932
E-mail: cdjanna@lsu.edu
Education:
B.A. Augustana College, Speech-Language Pathology, 1986
M.A. University of Kansas, Speech-Language Pathology, 1988
Ph.D. University of Kansas, Child Language, 1992 | 
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Janna is a Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics. Her research focuses on the nature of childhood language impairment (especially in the areas of semantics and morphosyntax); child language development and disorders within the context of linguistic diversity and poverty; and prevention methods in the field of speech language pathology. She directs the Language Development and Disorders Lab within the Department. Her work has been funded by the National Institute of Deafness & Communication Disorders, Department of Education, LA Board of Regents, Children’s Trust Fund, the American Speech Language Hearing Foundation, the Irene W. Pennington Foundation, and the San Diego State University Foundation. She also has helped secure funding for graduate students from the National Institutes of Health and the Southern Regional Education Board, and she has served as the mentor to one undergraduate student as part of the McNair Summer Research Program. Janna is an active member of the American Speech Language Hearing Association and served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Speech Language Hearing Research in 1999-2001. She also is active in the Louisiana Speech Language Hearing Association and served as Vice President and President of this organization in 2001 and 2002.
Courses Taught:
COMD 4380 Development of Speech and Language in Children
COMD 7480 Diagnostics
COMD 7153 Research Design
COMD 7750 Advanced Special Topic Seminars (topic varies)
Some Recent Publications:
In Childhood Language Impairment
Oetting, J., & McDonald, J. (2001). Nonmainstream dialect use and specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 44, 207-223.
Horohov, J. & Oetting, J. (2004). Effects of input manipulations on the word learning abilities of children with and without specific language impairment. Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics, 25, 43-65 .
Oetting, J. (2004). Dialect vs. Disorder. MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders (pp. 297-299). Boston, MA: MIT Press.
Oetting, J., & Cleveland, L. (2006). The utility of nonword repetition for southern African American and White children. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 20, 553-561.
Oetting, J., & Hadley, P. (2008). Morphosyntax in child language disorders. In. R. G. Schwartz (Ed.). The Handbook of Child Language Disorders (pp. 341-364). New York, NY: Psychological Press.
Oetting, J., & Newkirk, B. (2008). Subject relative clause use by children with and without SLI across dialects. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 22, 111-125.
Michiels, H. M., & Oetting, J. (in press). On the value of repeated measures of intention, vocabulary, and grammar for children with autism. Contemporary Issues in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Oetting, J. (2005). In. M.J. Ball (Ed.). Assessing language in children who speak a nonmainstream dialect of English. Clinical Sociolinguistics (pp. 180-192). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Oetting, J., Cleveland, L. H, & Cope, R. (2008). Empirically derived combinations of tools and clinical cutoffs: An illustrative case with a sample of culturally/linguistically diverse children. Speech, Language, and Hearing Services in Schools, 39, 44-53.
Oetting, J., Newkirk, B., Hartfield, L., Pruitt, S., & Garrity, A. (under revision). Index of Productive Syntax for children who speak African American English. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools.
Oetting, J., & McDonald, J. (2002). Methods for characterizing participants’ nonmainstream dialect use within studies of child language. Journal of Speech Language Hearing Research, 45, 505-518.
Ross, S., Oetting, J. & Stapleton, B. (2004). Preterite Had+Ved: A narrative discourse marker in AAE. American Speech, 79, 167-193.
Oetting, J. (2004). Dialect speakers. MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders (pp. 294-296). Boston, MA: MIT Press.
Oetting, J. & Pruitt, S. (2005). Use of Southern African American English across groups. Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders, 3,136-144.
Oetting, J. & Garrity, A. (2006). Variation within dialects: A case of Cajun marking within child SAAE and SWE. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49, 16-26.
Oetting, J. (2007). Speech Acquisition in Cajun/Creole English. In S. McLeod (Ed.). The international guide to speech acquisition (pp. 169-176). Delmar Thompson.
Pruitt, S. & Oetting, J. (in press). Past tense marking by African American English-speaking children reared in poverty. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
Oetting, J., Pruitt, S., & Roy, V. (2006). Community-based caregiver training: A rationale and model for early interventionists who work with low-income families. Zero to Three, 27, 13-22.
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