Morphological Awareness: Connecting Language Foundations to Academic Success for Students with Language and Literacy Deficits
with Julie Wolter, PhD
Julie Wolter, PhD, CCC-SLP is a Professor and Dean for the School of Health Sciences at Gonzaga University and has a strong history working in an interdisciplinary capacity with faculty and colleagues in health, education, social science, and professional programs across academic and community settings. She is a Fellow of the American Speech Language Hearing Association and directs the Language Literacy Essentials in Academic Development Lab. Her past role as a certified speech-language pathologist fuels her teaching and research interests in the areas of school-age language and literacy development, interprofessional collaboration, implementation science, and dissemination of related evidence-based practices.
Dr. Wolter conducts research to 1) cultivate sensitive early literacy assessment measures to predict and identify children at risk for literacy failure; 2) determine how specific language skills such as phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and orthographic awareness affect literacy success in children with and without language literacy disorders; and 3) develop efficacious and effective treatment programs to facilitate literacy development in children with and without language literacy disorders.
Dr. Wolter has authored multiple clinical and research papers, presented at state, national, and international levels, and has published in a variety of venues such as peer-reviewed journals and edited. She currently is funded through an R01 with the National Institutes of Health, in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital’s Interprofessional Health Program and the Royal Holloway University of London, to examine linguistic development in young school children with and without dyslexia and developmental language disorder.
