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Academic C. V.

Elena Plante, Ph.D.
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0071
Phone:520 621-5080 (office) 520-621-9901 (fax)
Email: eplante[at]email.arizona.edu

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Education | Professional Employment | Honors & Awards | Professional Certification and Professional Membership | Publications | Scholarly Presentations | Grants

EDUCATION    
Loyola College 1980-1984 B.A. Speech-Language Pathology
Loyola College 1985 M.S. Speech-Language Pathology
University of Arizona 1987-1990 Ph.D. Speech & Hearing Science
University of Arizona 1990-1992 Post Doctoral Fellow, Speech & Hearing Science

Current Position
 

Professor & Head, Department of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, The University of Arizona

  Faculty member in the Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience programs
HONORS AND AWARDS
2003 Galileo Circle Fellow, UA Science
2004 Fellow, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
2006 Editor's Award, Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION AND ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP
Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech Language Pathology, American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA)
Member, ASHA
Member, Special Interest Division 10: Higher Education
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Plante, E. & Beeson, P.M. (1999). Communication and communication disorders: A clinical introduction. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Hotz, G., Helm-Estabrooks, N., Nelson, N.W., & Plante, E. (2010). Pediatric Test of Brain Injury. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brooks Publishing Co.

Selected Journal Publications
Karunanayaka, P., Schmithorst, V.J., Vannest, J., Szaflarski, J.P., Plante, E. and Holland, S.K. (2010). A Group Independent Component Analysis of Covert Verb Generation in Children: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. Neuroimage,51, 472-487.

Holland, S.K., Byars, A.W., Plante, E. Szaflarski, J.P., Dietrich, K., & Altaye, M. (2010).  Letter:  MRI safety.  Science, 329, 512-513.

Greenslade, K.J., Plante, E., & Vance, R. (2009). The Diagnostic Accuracy and Construct Validity of the Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test – Preschool: Second Edition (SPELT-P2) Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools.

Christensen, T., Antonucci, S., Lockwood, J.L., Kittleson, M. & Plante, E. (2008).  Cortical and subcortical contributions to the attentive processing of speech.  NeuroReport, 1, 1101-1105.

Tillema, J.M., Byars, A.W., Jacola, L.M., Schapiro, M.B., Schmithorst, V.J., Szaflarski, J.P. and Holland, S.K., (2008). Cortical reorganization of language functioning following perinatal left MCA stroke. Brain & Language, 105, 99-111.

Holland, S.K., Plante, E., Byars, A.W. , Strawsburg, R.H. and Schmithorst, V.J., (2008). Functional MRI of Brain Lateralization Changes Associated with Normal Language Development. Proc. Indo-US Workshop on Developmental Neuroscience and Imaging 2007.

Spaulding, T.J., Plante, E., & Vance, R.B. (2008). Sustained selective attention skills of preschool children with specific language impairment: Evidence for separate attentional capacities.  Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research, 51, 16-34.

Norrix, L.W., Plante, E., Vance, R., & Boliek, C.A. (2007). Auditory-Visual Integration for Speech by Children with and without Specific Language Impairment.  Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research, 50, 1639-1651.

Schmithorst, V.J., Holland, S.K. and Plante, E., (2007). Development of effective connectivity for narrative comprehension in children. NeuroReport, 18, 1411-5.

Fisher, J., Plante, E., Vance, R., Gerken, LA., Glattke, T.J. (2007). Do Children and Adults with Language Impairment Recognize Prosodic Cues?  Journal of Speech, Language, Hearing Disorders, 50, 746–758.

Holland, S.K., Vannest, J., Mecoli, M., Jacola, L.M., Tillema, J.M., Karunanayaka, P.R., V.J., S., Yuan, W.H., Plante, E. and Byars, A.W.  (2007). Functional MRI of Language Lateralization During Development in Children". International Journal of Audiology, 46,   533-55.

Pankratz, M., Plante, E., Vance, R., Insalaco, D. (2007). The Diagnostic and Predictive Validity of The Renfrew Bus Story.  Language, Speech, & Hearing Services in Schools, 38, 390 - 399.

Karunanayaka, P.R., Holland, S.K., Schmithorst, V.J., Solodkin, A., Chen, E.E., Szaflarski, J.P., Plante, E. (2007).  Age -Related Connectivity Changes in fMRI Data from Children Listening to Stories.  NeuroImage.  34, 349-60.

Schmithorst, V.J., Holland, S.K., & Plante, E. (2007). Object Identification and Lexical/Semantic Access in Children: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Word-Picture Matching.  Human Brain Mapping. 28,1060–1074.

Richardson, J., Harris, L., Plante, E., & Gerken, L.A.  (2006).  Subcategory Learning in            Normal and Language Learning-Disabled Adults: How much information do they need? Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research, 49, 1257-1266.

Alt, M. & Plante, E. (2006) Factors That Influence Lexical and Semantic Fast-Mapping of Young        Children with Specific Language Impairment.  Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research, 49, 941 - 954.

Jacola, L.M. Schapiro, M.B, Schmithorst, V.J., Byars, A.W., Strawsburg, R.H., Szaflarski, J.P., Holland, S.K., Plante, E.  (2006).  Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals Atypical Language Organization in Children Following Perinatal Left Middle Cerebral Artery Stroke.  Neuropediatrics. 37, 46-52.

Szaflarski, J.P., Schmithorst, V.J., Altaye, M., Byars, A.W., Rett, J., Plante, E., & Holland, S.K. (2006). fMRI study of longitudinal language development in children ages 5-18. Annals of Neurology, 59, 796-807.

Peña, E.D., Spaulding, T.J., & Plante, E. (2006).  The Composition of Normative Groups and Diagnostic Decision Making:  Shooting Ourselves in the Foot.  American Journal of
Speech-Language Pathology, 15, 247-254.

Plante, E., Holland, S.K., & Schmithorst, V.J. (2006). Prosodic Processing by Children:  An           fMRI Study.  Brain and Langauge, 97, 332-342.

Plante, E., Schmithorst, V.J., Holland, S.K., & Byars, A.W.  (2006).  Sex Differences in the Activation of   Language Cortex During Childhood.  Neuropsychologia, 44, 1210-1221.

Norrix, L.W., Plante, E., & Vance, R. (2006). Auditory-Visual Speech Integration by Adults
with and without Language Learning Disabilities  Journal of Communication Disorders,
39, 22-36.

Spaulding, T.J., Plante, E., & Farinella, K.A. (2006). Do children with impaired language
score at the low end of the normative distribution? Language, Speech, & Hearing
Services in Schools, 37, 61-72.

SELECTED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

Plante, E. (2010, June).  Windows into receptive processing.  The Dyslexia Foundation 12th Extraordinary Brain Symposium, Cong, Ireland.

Plante, E. (2009)  Visualizing Human Thought, College of Science NEXT series http://www.thoughtware.tv/videos/show/3982-Visualizing-Human-Thought

*Plante, E. (2008, July).  The Neural Basis of Language Processing in the Context of Development. IEEE/IET International Conference on Audio, Language, and Image Processing.  Shanghai, China.

Watkins, J.L., Hendrix, R.E., Plante, E. (2004). Interdisciplinary collaborations Web-based
teaching module. Rockville, MD: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. http://www.asha.org/academic/interdis-collab/default
SELECTED GRANTS
Plante, E. (2006-2009). Identification of Adults with Developmental Language Impairment
NIDCD R21 DC007917 . $452,708. Role on project: PI.
Plante, E. (2002-2011). Receptive skills in developmental language disorder. National
Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders R01 DC04726 $925,000.
Role on project: PI.
Christensen, T. (2007-2012). Brain Mechanisms Linking Language, Attention and Memory.
NIDCD 1K01DC008812-01. Budget: $981,048, Role on Project: Mentor.