Lynne Hewitt, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator
Communication Disorders - Bowling Green State University

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Recent Conference Handouts

Intervention for Developmental Language Disorders - Evidence Based Practice (OSLHA 2005)

Evaluating Treatment Efficacy for Language Facilitation in Autism (OSSPEAC 2004)

Naturalistic, Focused Stimulation Interventions for Communicative Impairments in Autism (OSSPEAC 2004)

Educational Experience

• 1994:  Ph.D., Communicative Disorders and Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo.  
• 1987: M.A., Communicative Disorders and Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo.
• 1980:  B.A., with distinction in all subjects, summa cum laude in linguistics and English, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Professional Experience

August 1999-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Disorders, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.  Member of the Graduate Faculty. 

Courses taught: Undergraduate: Language Assessment and Intervention; Speech and Language Acquisition and Development. Graduate: Pediatric Language Disorders; Language Disorders in School-Age Children; Diagnostics in Communication Disorders; Doctoral Seminar in Language Science I.  

August 1994-June 1999: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University. University Park, PA.  Member of the Graduate Faculty. 

Courses taught: Undergraduate--Language Disorders in Children; Child Language Development;
Graduate--Language Disorders in Children; Seminar in Communication Disorders (Special Topic: Autism); Doctoral Seminar in Communication Disorders. 

July 1994: Invited Instructor, The First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.  Course title: Language Disorders in Children.

Manuscripts in Preparation

Hewitt, L. Autism and identity: Clinical decision-making at the boundary between selfhood and disability.

Hammer, C. & Hewitt, L. Language intervention and language theory.

Hewitt, L, Treiber, D., & Ross, S. Naturalistic intensive modeling as a treatment for communication impairment in autism.

Small, L., Hewitt, L., and Gooding, C. Language processing and auditory processing in college students.

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Refereed Publications

1993: Hewitt, L., Duchan, J., & Segal, E.  Structure and function of verbal conflicts among adults with mental retardation.  Discourse Processes, 16, 525-543.

1995:  Hewitt, L., & Duchan, J.  Subjectivity in children’s fictional narrative.  Topics in Language Disorders, 15, 1-15.  

1998: Hewitt, L.  The influence of question type on response adequacy in young adults with autism.  Journal of Communication Disorders, 31, 135-152.

2000: Hewitt, L. Does it matter what your client thinks? The role of theory in intervention.  Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 31, 186-193.

2000: Hewitt, L. Assessing communicative intents: A situated pragmatics approach. Seminars in Speech and Language, 21, 257-266.

2000: Yont, K., Hewitt, L., & Miccio, A. A coding system for detecting the source of conversational breakdowns in preschool children. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 9:4, 300-309.

2002: Yont, K.M., Miccio, A.W., & Hewitt, L.E. The nature of phonological breakdowns in children with SLI. In N. Hewlitt, L. Kelly, & F. Windsor (Eds.), Investigations in clinical linguistics and phonetics (pp. 161-168). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

2002: Yont, K., Hewitt, L. , and Miccio, A. “Huh?, What did you say?”: Understanding conversational breakdowns in children with specific language impairment, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 16, 265-285.

2005: Hewitt, L., Hammer, C., Yont, K., and Tomblin, B. Language sampling for Kindergarten children with and without SLI: Mean Length of Utterance, IPSYN, and NDW. Journal of Communication Disorders, 38, 197-213.

In Press: Hewitt, L., Socko, A., Miccio, A. Intervention to improve expressive grammar for adults with Down syndrome. Communication Disorders Quarterly.

In Review: Hewitt, L. Analyzing pragmatic language abilities of young adults with autism. Autism.

In Preparation: Ramachandra, Vijay A. & Hewitt, L. Use of Language Sample Analysis with Kannada-speaking Children: Clinical Challenges and Potential.

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Chapters and Invited Papers

1994: Facilitating narrative comprehension: The importance of subjectivity.  In Duchan, J., Hewitt, L., & Sonnenmeier, R., Eds., Pragmatics: From Theory to Practice.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

1995:  Hewitt, L., Reduced anaphor in subjective contexts.  In Duchan, J., Bruder, G., & Hewitt, L., Eds., Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

1995: Zubin, D., & Hewitt, L.,  The deictic center: A theory of deixis in narrative.  In Duchan, J., Bruder, G., & Hewitt, L., Eds., Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective.  Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

1998:  The implications of  diagnostic classification for language assessment in autism.  Invited chapter for B.J. Philips & D. Ruscello (Eds.), Differential diagnosis in speech-language pathology.  Newton, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann.

1998: A social interactionist view of autism and its clinical management.  Journal of Communication Disorders, 31, 89-92.

2003: Hewitt, L. Behaviorism and autism: Is everything we learned about language in graduate school wrong? Hearsay, 15:2, 18-22.

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Edited Volumes

1994: Duchan, J., Hewitt, L., & Sonnenmeier, R., Eds., Pragmatics: From Theory to Practice.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

1995: Duchan, J., Bruder, G., & Hewitt, L., Eds., Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective.  Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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