Teresa Ukrainetz
Speech & Hearing Sciences
Professor | Assistant Department Head & SLP Division Chair
Educational Background
Biography
Ukrainetz: Ph.D., ASHA Fellow; Professor of Speech-Language Pathology; Asst Dept Head & SLP Division Chair; M.S. 87 in SLP from UBC Canada; SLP 87-91 Burnaby, BC; Ph.D. in SLP from UT-Austin in 1995; UWyoming 1995-2015.
Teaching Interests
School-age Language Intervention
Research Methods
Child Language Development
Literacy Acquisition
Research Interests
Teresa Ukrainetz investigates the framework, procedures, and tools of school-age language intervention. She has researched testing methods & measures, phonemic awareness and narrative development and intervention, and school SLP practices. She has two books on school-age language intervention. Her current work involves SLP intervention for expository discourse and learning strategies.
Awards
Nomination for CEHS 2020 Undergraduate Research Mentor, 2019
USU COMDDE
Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association , 2012
ASHA
Faculty Growth Award, 2011
UWyo College of Health Sciences
Cap and Gown Chapter of Mortar Board Top Prof , 2009
UWyo
Outstanding Researcher Award, 2007
UWyo College of Health Sciences
Graduate Student Mentor , 2006
UWyo Graduate School
Academic Management Institute Attendee, 2002
Colorado Network of Women Leaders
Excellence in Advising Nomination, 1998
University of Wyoming
Faculty Growth Award, 1998
UWyo College of Health Sciences
Poster Award, 2nd Place, 1998
University of Wyoming, College of Health Sciences Poster Session
Excellence in Advising Nomination, 1997
University of Wyoming
Outstanding Poster, 1997
University of Wyoming, College of Health Sciences Poster Session
Excellence in Advising Nomination, 1996
University of Wyoming
Faculty Growth Award, 1995
UWyo College of Health Sciences
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Scholarship, 1995
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Scholarship, 1994
Symposium on Research in Child Language Development Student Travel Award, 1994
Jesse H. Jones Fellowship, 1993
UT-Austin
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Scholarship, 1993
Student Research Award in Child Language, 1993
American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
Outstanding First Year Ph.D. Student, 1992
Dept. of Speech Communication, UT-Austin
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Scholarship, 1992
Graduate Fellowship, 1991
University of Texas
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Scholarship, 1991
Graduate Fellowship, 1986
University of British Columbia
Graduate Scholarship, 1986
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Graduate Scholarship, 1985
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Publications | Books
- Ukrainetz, T.A, (2024). School-age language intervention: Evidence-based practices (2nd ed.). Editor. *
- Ukrainetz, T., (2015). School-age language intervention: Evidence-based practices. Pro-Ed *
- Ukrainetz, T., (2006). Contextualized Language Intervention: Scaffolding PreK–12 Literacy Achievement. Pro-Ed *
- Ukrainetz, T., (2024). The phonological foundations of reading and writing: Awareness, memory, and retrieval intervention (pp. 533-571, Ch. 14): School-age language intervention: Evidence-based practices (2nd ed.).. Pro-Ed *
Publications | Book Chapters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Ukrainetz, T.A, (2025). A qualitative inquiry of student, parent, and educator perceptions of an expository intervention and carryover.. Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 56, 1252-1272.
- Ukrainetz, T.A, (2025). Examining the social validity of Sketch and Speak expository intervention for adolescent students, their parents, and their speech-language pathologists. , 56, 823-83.
- Ukrainetz, T.A, (2025). The effect of an expository intervention on strategy use and oral expression of informational texts for adolescents with learning disabilities. . Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 56, 342-371.
- Ukrainetz, T., (2024). Evidence-based expository intervention: A tutorial for speech-language pathologists. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 33, 654-675.
- Peterson, A.K, Ukrainetz, T.A, (2023). Sketch and Speak expository intervention for adolescents: A single-case experiment via telepractice.. Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 54, 1208-1232.
- Ukrainetz, T.A, Peterson, A.K, (2021). Sketch & Speak: An oral, written, and graphic strategy intervention for secondary student. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 6, 1357-1373.
- Peterson, A.K, Ukrainetz, T.A, Risueno, R., (2021). Speaking like a scientist: Sketch-and-Speak treatment to improve expository discourse.. Autism and Developmental Language Impairments, 6, 1-19.
- Ukrainetz, T., (2019). Sketch and speak: An expository intervention using note-taking and oral practice for children with language-related learning disabilities. . Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 50, 53-70.
- Ukrainetz, T.A, (2017). Commentary on “reading comprehension is not a single ability”: Implications for child language intervention. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 48:2, 92-97.
- Ukrainetz, T.A, (2015). Improving text comprehension: Scaffolding adolescents into strategic reading. Seminars in Speech and Language, 36:1, 17-30. doi: 10.1055/s-0034-1396443
- Petersen, D., Brown, C., Ukrainetz, T.A, Wise, C., Spencer, T., Zebre, J., (2014). Systematic individualized narrative language intervention on the personal narratives of children with autism. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 45:1, 67-86.
- Ukrainetz, T.A, Peterson, A.K, Konishi-Therkildsen, A., Lettich, C., Holt, K., The effect of an expository intervention on strategy use and oral expression of informational texts for adolescents with learning disabilities. Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools
Professional Journal
- Ukrainetz, T., (2016). Strategic intervention for expository texts: Teaching text preview and lookback.. Perspectives on Language, Learning, and Education, 48, 92-97.
- Ukrainetz, T., (2008). Phonemic awareness instruction for preschoolers: The evidence for pre-phonemic versus phonemic tasks. EBP Briefs, 2, 47-58.
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.