Janna Oetting is a Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics at Louisiana State University. Her research focuses on the linguistic abilities of children with and without language impairments within the context of English dialect diversity and poverty as well as the efficacy of parent training programs and language screening services for children. Along with Drs. Michael Hegarty and Janet McDonald, her current NIH grant examines the linguistics systems of nonmainstream English-speaking children as a function of their English dialect type, nonmainstream dialect density, and clinical status. Her grant history includes funding from the National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Louisiana Department of Education, Louisiana Board of Regents, Children’s Trust Fund, the American Speech Language Hearing Foundation, and the Irene W. Pennington Foundation. She has also helped secure funding for graduate student training from the National Institutes of Health, the Southern Regional Education Board, the Louisiana Board of Regents, and the LSU McNair Program. She is currently the Editor of Language for the Journal of Speech Language Hearing Research and served as an Associate Editor for this journal in 1999-2001. She became a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 2007 and currently serves on the Multicultural Issues Board for this organization. She became a Fellow of the Louisiana Speech Language Hearing Association in 2005, received Honors in 2007 and the Jeanette Laguaite Higher Education Award in 2008, and served as Vice President and President of this organization in 2001 and 2002.
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