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Elena Plante is a Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Arizona's College of Science. She specializes in developmental language disorders and has contributed to standardized tests like the Pediatric Test of Brain Injury and the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS). Her research focuses on neuroimaging (fMRI), treatment efficacy, and language assessment methodologies. She teaches courses such as SLHS 510: Evaluation Methods, SLHS 552: School Age Language Disorders, and SLHS 696a: Doctoral Seminar.
Her professional credentials include a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and licensure from the Arizona Department of Health Services. She has been funded by grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institute on Aging (NIA), and the Institute for Educational Sciences (IES).
Research Interests: Dr. Plante's work spans developmental language disorders, neurobiological substrates of language impairments, fMRI applications in language processing, and telepractice efficacy. She investigates treatment methods for morphosyntactic skills in children, including syntactic priming and conversational recast therapies. Her neuroimaging studies explore brain activation patterns during language learning and attention tasks, with over 30 years of expertise in fMRI techniques.
Scientific Awards:
- Rieke Prize, U of A College of Science (2025)
- 2018 Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- 2004 Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Assoc.
- 2003 U of A College of Science Galileo Circle Fellow
Advising & Grants: While no formal advisees are listed, her research has been funded by major NIH institutes and IES. She collaborates nationally and internationally with researchers to advance therapeutic and diagnostic approaches for language disorders. Her lab explores statistical learning and exemplar variability in language acquisition.
Labs/Teams: Her lab focuses on intervention strategies for developmental language disorder, including telepractice adaptations and neuroimaging-based treatment monitoring.
