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Gwyneth Campbell Rost

University of Iowa
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
WJSHC 309
Iowa City, IA, 52240
gwyneth-rost@uiowa.edu

Education

Ph.D. in progress, University of Iowa, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Advisor: Karla K. McGregor, Ph.D.

M.S. (August 2005), University of Louisville, Department of Surgery, Division of Communication Disorders, Advisor: Patricia B. Blackwell, Ph.D.

M.A. (December, 2002), University of Louisville, Department of Linguistics

B.A. (May, 1995), Grinnell College, Department of French

Professional Memberships
American Speech-Language Hearing Association, Certificate of Clinical Competence, Account 12089130

International association for the study of child language

Professional History

2005-current: Research Assistant, Word Learning Laboratory, dir. Karla McGregor

2006-2010: Research Assistant, Mechanisms of Audiovisual Categorization Laboratory, dir. Bob McMurray

2010, fall: Developmental Speech and Language Disorders.

2010, spring: Teaching Assistant, Language Development.

2009, fall: Teaching Assistant. Introduction to Speech & Hearing Processes & Disorders.

2007-2009: Speech-Language Pathologist, Great Prairie Area Educational Agency

2007, spring: Research Assistant, Stuttering Laboratory, dir. Patricia Zebrowski

2007, spring: Teaching Assistant, Anatomy and physiology for speech production.

2006, fall: Teaching Assistant, Language disorders from birth to 18 years.

1997-2004: Teacher / Registrar, St. Francis High School, Louisville, KY

Peer Reviewed Publications

Rost, G.C. and McMurray, B. (2010). Finding the signal by adding noise: The role of non-contrastive phonetic variability in early word learning. Infancy.

McGregor, K.K., Rost, G.C., Guo, L.Y., and Sheng, L. (2010). What compound words mean to children with SLI. Applied Psycholinguistics, 31, 463-487.

Rost, G.C. and McMurray, B. (2009). Speaker variability augments phonological processing in early word learning. Developmental Science, 12(2), 339-349.

Peer Reviewed Presentations

Rost, G.C. and McGregor, K.K. (2010, June) Adjudicative Competence in Young Adults with Specific Language Impairment. Poster at the 31st Annual Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, USA.

Rost, G.C. and McMurray, B. (2008, July) Phonetic variability and word learning: Infants can learn lexical neighbors, in “The role of input variability in language acquisition and use”, symposium at the International Association for the Study of Child Language conference, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Rost, G.C. and McMurray, B. (2008, March) Phonetic variability and early word learning, in “The emergence of phonological contrast from lexical and perceptual processes”, symposium at the 16th International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

McGregor, K.K. and Rost, G.C. (2007, November) Good social cue use but poor statistical learning among children with SLI, in “Word Learning in situ: Interplay between learners and learning environments.” Symposium at the 2007 American Speech-Language and Hearing Foundation conference.

McGregor, K.K., Rost, G.C., and Guo, L. (2007, June.) Are children with SLI challenged by the grammatical or lexical components of compound words? Poster at the 28th Annual Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, USA.

Awards

Travel Award, Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders, 2010.

Travel Award, International Society for Infant Studies, 2008

Honorable Mention, James F. Jakobsen Graduate Student Conference, University of Iowa, March, 2007.