Ronald Gillam

Speech & Hearing Sciences

Professor, Raymond & Eloise Lillywhite Endowed Chair | Speech-Language Pathology


Ronald B Gillam

Contact Information

Phone: 435-797-1704
Email: ron.gillam@usu.edu
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Educational Background

PhD, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University, 1989
An Investigation of the Oral Language, Reading, and Written Language Competencies of Language-Learning Impaired and Normally Achieving School-age Children (Judith R. Johnston, Ph.D., Committee Chair).
MS, Communication Disorders, Colorado State University, 1979
BS, Communication Disorders, Colorado State University, 1977

Awards

Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2017

Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University

Honors of the Association, 2016

American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association

Bill E. Robins Award for Utah State University Researcher of the Year , 2009

Utah State University

Editor’s Award for the article of highest merit, 2009

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Haydn Williams Fellow, 2009

Curtin University of Technology, School of Psychology, Perth, Western Australia

Research Award, 2009

Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University

Scholar/Researcher of the Year, 2009

Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, Utah State University

Research Award, 2007

Department of Communication Disorders and Deaf Education, Utah State University

Dads Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship , 2005

The University of Texas at Austin

Fellow, 2000

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Dean's Excellence Award , 1999

College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin

Editor’s Award for the article of highest merit, 1999

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Innovative Instructional Technology Award, 1999

The University of Texas at Austin

Research Award, 1999

The University of Texas at Austin

Research Award, 1993

College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin

Advisor Honors, 1991

Executive Council of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association


Publications | Books

      Publications | Book Chapters

    An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

    Publications | Curriculum

      An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

      Publications | Journal Articles

      Academic Journal

      • Gillam, R.B, Serang, S., Montgomery, J.W, Evans, J.L, (2021). Cognitive processes related to memory capacity explain nearly all of the variance in language test performance in school-age children with and without developmental language disorder. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1-16. doi: 12:724356. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.724356
      • Ding, G., Mohr, K.A, Orellana, C.I, Hancock, A., Juth, S., Wada, R., Gillam, R.B, (2021). Use of functional Near Infrared Spectroscipy (fNIRS) to assess syntactic processing by monolingual and bilingual adults and children. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15:621025, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.621025
      • Gillam, R.B, Montgomery, J.W, Evans, J.L, Gillam, S.L, (2019). Cognitive Predictors of Sentence Comprehension in Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder: Implications for Assessment and Treatment . International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 21:3, 228-239.

      In-House Journal

        Professional Journal

          An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

          Publications | MultiMedia

          Video

            An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

            Publications | Other

            Newsletter

              Other

                An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

                Teaching

                COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030 - Disorders of Fluency-Stuttering, Fall 2025
                PSY 7810 - Seminar, Spring 2025
                COMD 6030 - Disorders of Fluency-Stuttering, Spring 2024
                COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD, COMD 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030, 6030 - Disorders of Fluency-Stuttering, Spring 2024
                SPED 7820 - Seminar: Special Topics, Spring 2023
                COMD 6030 - Disorders of Fluency-Stuttering, Fall 2022
                SPED 7820 - Seminar: Special Topics, Spring 2021
                COMD 6030 - Disorders of Fluency-Stuttering, Spring 2020
                COMD, SPED 7820, 7830 - Special Topics in Speech-Language Pathology, Spring 2020
                PSY 7090 - Experimental and Applied Psychological Science Program Seminar, Fall 2019
                PSY 7090 - Experimental and Applied Psychological Science Program Seminar, Spring 2019
                SPED 7900 - Independent Study, Spring 2019
                SPED 7940 - Journal Reading Group, Spring 2019
                SPED 7820 - Seminar: Special Topics, Spring 2019
                COMD 7830 - Special Topics in Speech-Language Pathology, Spring 2019
                PSY 7090 - Experimental and Applied Psychological Science Program Seminar, Fall 2018
                COMD 6030 - Disorders of Fluency-Stuttering, Summer 2018
                SPED 7900 - Independent Study, Summer 2018
                PSY 7090 - Experimental and Applied Psychological Science Program Seminar, Fall 2017
                SPED 7820 - Seminar: Special Topics, Fall 2017
                COMD 6030 - Disorders of Fluency-Stuttering, Summer 2017
                COMD 6900 - Independent Study, Spring 2017
                SPED 7940 - Journal Reading Group, Spring 2017
                SPED 7820 - Seminar: Special Topics - Evidence-based Practice, Spring 2017
                COMD 6900 - Independent Study, Fall 2016
                COMD 6230 - Introduction to Research in Communicative Disorders, Fall 2016
                SPED 7090 - Conference Presentation, Summer 2016
                SPED 7060 - Research Internship, Summer 2016
                SPED 7900 - Independent Study, Spring 2016
                SPED 7820 - Seminar: Special Topics, Spring 2016
                SPED 7940 - Journal Reading Group, Fall 2015
                COMD 6230 - Introduction to Research in Communicative Disorders, Summer 2015
                SPED 7340 - College Teaching Internship, Spring 2015
                COMD 5900 - Independent Study, Spring 2015
                COMD 6900 - Independent Study, Spring 2015
                SPED 7900 - Independent Study, Spring 2015
                SPED 7900 - Independent Study, Fall 2014
                EDUC,PSY 6570 - Introduction to Educational and Psychological Research, Fall 2014
                SPED 7040 - Literature Review, Fall 2014
                SPED 7080 - Writing for Publication, Fall 2014
                SPED 7070 - Grant Writing, Summer 2014
                COMD 6230 - Introduction to Research in Communicative Disorders, Summer 2014
                SPED 7040 - Literature Review, Summer 2014
                SPED 7330 - Supervision Internship, Summer 2014
                SPED 7040 - Literature Review, Spring 2014
                SPED 7820 - Seminar: Group Research Design, Spring 2014
                COMD 7830 - Special Topics in Speech-Language Pathology, Spring 2014
                SPED 7070 - Grant Writing, Fall 2013
                SPED 7330 - Supervision Internship, Fall 2013
                COMD 6230 - Introduction to Research in Communicative Disorders, Summer 2013
                SPED 7970 - Dissertation, Spring 2013
                SPED 7040 - Literature Review, Spring 2013
                SPED 7820 - Seminar: Applied Statistics, Spring 2013
                SPED 7970 - Dissertation, Fall 2012
                COMD 6230 - Introduction to Research in Communicative Disorders, Fall 2012
                COMD 6230 - Introduction to Research in Communicative Disorders, Fall 2012
                SPED 7940 - Journal Reading Group, Fall 2012
                SPED 7820 - Seminar: Special Topics, Summer 2012
                SPED 7820 - Seminar: Special Topics, Summer 2012
                SPED 7060 - Research Internship, Spring 2012
                COMD 6900 - Independent Study, Fall 2011
                COMD 6230 - Introduction to Research in Communicative Disorders, Fall 2011
                COMD 6900 - INDEPENDENT STUDY, Spring 2011
                SPED 7940 - JRG: LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, Spring 2011
                SPED 7820 - ST: APPLIED STATISTICS, Spring 2011
                COMD 6230 - Introduction to Research in Communicative Disorders, Fall 2010

                Graduate Students Mentored

                Joel Skaria, Psychology, August 2016
                Vicki Simmonsmeier, Special Education & Rehab, September 2015
                Allison Hancock, Psychology, September 2018 - October 2023
                Rebekah Wada, Speech & Hearing Sciences, January 2016 - May 2021
                Stephanie Juth, Teacher Education & Leadership, August 2015 - May 2021
                Carla Orellana, Speech & Hearing Sciences, August 2015 - May 2021
                Carla Orellana, Speech & Hearing Sciences, November 2018 - December 2020
                Daphne Hartzheim, Speech & Hearing Sciences, September 2014 - June 2015
                Katie Squires, Speech & Hearing Sciences, March 2011 - June 2013
                Douglas Petersen, Speech & Hearing Sciences, July 2006 - May 2009