Research Interests & Abilities

• Specific Language Impairment
• Down syndrome
• word learning
• early literacy skills
• phonological awareness
• narratives
• morphosyntax
• treatment efficacy research

Major Research Activities

Dr. Cleave's recent research has focused on word learning children with specific language impairment (SLI) and Down syndrome (DS). Other areas of work include reading and writing development in children with DS and the vocabulary and morphosyntactic difficulties in children with SLI. She also has a particular interest in treatment efficacy research.

CLLRNet Research Projects

• Efficacy Research with Down Syndrome: Interventions Designed to Impact Reading Ability  (Project Leader)
• Using Neuroimaging Methods to Elucidate Mechanisms of Speech Processing and Reading in Healthy, Dyslexic and Down Syndrome Populations.

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