SRCLD Presentation Details
  Title  
       
    Gene linkage and association for phenotypes of language, reading and speech: Progress for etiological models  
Author(s)
Mabel L. Rice - University of Kansas

SRCLD Info
SRCLD Year: 2010
Presentation Type: Invited Speaker
Presentation Time: (na)
Abstract
This presentation will summarize findings from genetic investigations of language, reading, and speech disorders. A recent discovery of a new candidate gene for Specific Language Impairment will be highlighted, with results that point toward the likelihood of multiple genes contributing to language impairment, some of which also contribute to reading or speech impairment. The findings have implications for developmental biological and behavioral models and possible gene effects on interrelated phenotypes. Clinical implications will be addressed. This research was funded by the National Institutes of Health P30DC005803, R01DC001803, and R01DC005226 to Mabel Rice, as well as by the University of Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center P30HD002528.
Author Biosketch(es)

Mabel L. Rice, Ph.D., is the Fred & Virginia Merrill Distinguished Professor of Advanced Studies at the University of Kansas. She directs the Merrill Advanced Studies Center, the Child Language Doctoral Program, and the NIDCD-funded Center for Biobehavioral Neurosciences of Communication Disorders. She has been a Scholar-in-Residence at MIT, Harvard, the University of Potsdam, German, and Curtin University in Perth, Australia, and a Japan Fellow in Tokyo. She serves on the Advisory Council of NIDCD, on the Communication Disorders Workgroup for American Psychiatric Association DSM-V, is a consultant for the Norwegian Institute of Public Health Longitudinal Study of Child Health Outcomes, and the Autism Speaks Treatment Advisory Board. She is a Fellow of AAAS and APA and received ASHA Honors as well as the Alfred A. Kawana Council of Editors Award of ASHA. Her research interests focus on language acquisition and language impairments, morphosyntax (grammar markers of language impairment), genetics of language, reading, and speech impairments, language acquisition and impairments in twins, language impairments in children affected by HIV, language impairments in children with autism, and language impairments in bilingual children. Her investigations are funded by awards from NIH. She enjoys and appreciates the support and contributions of scientific collaborators from Nebraska (Shelley Smith and Lesa Hoffman), Australia (Steve Zubrick and Kate Taylor), Spain (Javier Gayán), Johns Hopkins (Rebecca Landa), Tulane (Russ Van Dyke), University of Illinois (Ken Rich), Canada (Johanne Paradis and Martha Crago) and Norway (Synnve (Synnve.Schjolberg) and the members of the Language Acquisition Studies lab at the University of Kansas.

Web Link: http://www2.ku.edu/~cldp/MabelRice/