
Amanda Owen Van Horne
Amanda Owen Van Horne
Interim MA Program Director
Professor
302-831-3982
Office Location:
531 Tower at STAR
Research Interests
- Developmental Language Disorder (also known as Specific Language Impairment)
- Grammatical Development
- Complex Syntax
- Connectionist modeling & Self-organizing maps
- Language Intervention
- Implementation Science
- Treatment Research
Honors, Awards, and Major Professional Offices Held
- 2022-2024 LSHSS Editor In Chief
- 2022 UD College of Health Sciences Diversity Advocacy Award
- 2018 ASHA Editor’s Award, JSLHR, in the area of Language for Do the hard things first: Exemplar selection influences generalization following therapy for grammatical morphology, with Marc Fey and Maura Curran
- 2016 SROP Outstanding Mentor ~ Honorable Mention, Summer Research Opportunity Program
- 2016 NIDCD/NIH, Communication Disorders Review Committee, Reviewer, Grant Proposals
- 2013 Outstanding Undergraduate Honors Advisor
- 2010 Rising Star Award, University of Texas at Dallas
- Owen Van Horne, A.J. (submitted). Considerations for eliciting grammatical forms from children. Language Speech and Hearing Services in the Schools.
- McGregor, K. K., Goffman, L., Owen Van Horne, A.J., Hogan, T.P., & Finestack, L.H. (submitted) Developmental Language Disorder: Applications for policy, clinical service, and research. ASHA Perspectives.
- Hall, J.E., Owen Van Horne, A.J., McGregor, K.K., & Farmer, T.A. (submitted). Individual differences in verb bias sensitivity in children and adults with Developmental Language Disorder. Frontiers.
- Curran, M. K., & Owen Van Horne, A.J., (in press). Use of recast intervention to teach causal adverbials to young children with DLD within a science curriculum. A single case design study. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology.
- Hall, J.E., Owen Van Horne, A.J., Farmer, T., & McGregor, K. (2019). Deficits in the use of verb bias information in real time processing by college students with developmental language disorder. Journal of Speech Language Hearing Research, 62(2), 337-355.
- Hall, J.E., Owen Van Horne, A.J., Farmer, T., & McGregor, K. (2018). Individual and developmental differences in distributional learning. Language Speech and Hearing Services in the Schools, 49(3S), 694–709.
- Owen Van Horne, A.J., Curran, M., Larson, C., & Fey, M. (2018). Effects of a complexity-based approach on generalization of past tense -ed and related morphemes. Language Speech and Hearing Services in the Schools, 49(3S), 681–693.
- Owen Van Horne, A.J., Curran, M., & Hall, J. (2017). Can vocabulary lessons increase the amount of complex syntax produced by Head Start teachers? A pilot study. Child Language Teaching & Therapy, 33, 305-319.
- Hollister, J., Owen Van Horne, A.J., Zebrowski, P. (2017) The relationship between grammatical development and disfluencies in preschool children who stutter and who recover. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 26, 44-56.
- Hall, J.E., Owen Van Horne, A.J., Farmer, T. & McGregor, K.K. (in press). Distributional Learning in College Students with Developmental Language Disorder. Journal of Speech Language Hearing Research.
- Owen Van Horne, A.J., Fey, M., & Curran, M. (in press). Do the hard things first: Exemplar selection influences generalization following therapy for grammatical morphology. Journal of Speech Language Hearing Research.]
- Owen Van Horne, A.J., Green Fager, M. (2015). Quantifying the relative contributions of lexical and phonological factors to regular past tense accuracy. International Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 17, 605-616.
- Koehlinger, K., Owen Van Horne, A.J., Oleson, J., McCreery, R., Moeller, M. P. (2015). The role of sentence position, allomorph, and morpheme type on accurate use of s-related morphemes by children who are hard of hearing. J Speech Lang Hear Res, 58(2), 396-409.
- Cleave, P. L., Becker, S. D., Curran, M. K., Owen Van Horne, A.J., Fey, M. E. (2015). The efficacy of recasts in language intervention: a systematic review and meta-analysis. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 24(2), 237-55.
- Koehlinger, K. M., Owen Van Horne, A.J., Moeller, M. P. (2013). Grammatical outcomes of 3- and 6-year-old children who are hard of hearing. J Speech Lang Hear Res, 56(5), 1701-14.
- Guo, L. Y., Owen, A.J., Tomblin, J. B. (2010). Effect of subject types on the production of auxiliary is in young English-speaking children. J Speech Lang Hear Res, 53(6), 1720-41.
- Owen, A.J.(2010). Factors affecting accuracy of past tense production in children with specific language impairment and their typically developing peers: the influence of verb transitivity, clause location, and sentence type. J Speech Lang Hear Res, 53(4), 993-1014.
- Owen, A.J., Leonard, L. B. (2006). The production of finite and nonfinite complement clauses by children with specific language impairment and their typically developing peers. J Speech Lang Hear Res, 49(3), 548-71.
- Owen, A.J., Leonard, L. B. (2002). Lexical diversity in the spontaneous speech of children with specific language impairment: application of D. J Speech Lang Hear Res, 45(5), 927-37.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)