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John W. Oller, Jr.,Ph.D.
 
Doris B. Hawthorne/BoRSF Endowed Professor IV, Department of Communicative Disorders
 
B.A., Spanish and French,
California State University at Fresno, 1965

General Secondary Teaching Credential,
California State University at Fresno, 1966

M.A. in General Linguistics,
University of Rochester, New York, 1968

Ph.D. in General Linguistics,
University of Rochester, New York, 1969
 
P. O. Box 43170
Lafayette, LA 70504-3170
Burke-Hawthorne Hall, Room 219
Phone: 337-482-6722
Email: joller@louisiana.edu
URL: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~jxo1721/index.html
 
Short List of Research Interests:
  • Diagnosis, treatment, and determination of causation of disorders, especially autism
  • Testing & measurement of intellectual, social, & psychological variables
  • Applications of general sign theory in language use, acquisition and disorders

Major/Principal Publications:

  1. Oller, J. W., Jr., & Oller, S. D. (2010). Autism: The Diagnosis, Treatment, & Etiology of the Undeniable Epidemic. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
  2. Oller, J. W., Jr., Oller, S. D., & Badon, L. C. (2010). Cases: Introducing Communication Disorders Across the Life Span. San Diego, CA: Plural Publishing, Inc.
  3. Oller, J. W., Jr., Oller, S. D. & Badon, L. C. (2006). Milestones: Normal Speech and Language Development Across the Life Span. San Diego, CA: Plural Publishing, Inc.
  4. Chen, L., & Oller, J. W., Jr. (2008). The use of passives and alternatives in English by Chinese speakers. In Sabine de Knop & Teun de Rycker (Eds.), Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar: A Volume in Honor of Rene Dirven ( pp. 385-415). Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
  5. Yan, R., & Oller, J. W., Jr. (2007). "Processing-Dependent Measures" as a failed solution to the assessment of individuals from language and dialect minorities. Communicative Disorders Review, 1(3). (Plural Publishing, Inc. on-line peer-reviewed journal.)
  6. Oller, J. W., Jr. & Chen, L. (2007). Episodic organization in discourse and valid
    measurement in the sciences. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 14, 127-144.
  7. Oller, J. W., Jr., Chen, L., Oller, S. D., and Pan, N. (2005). Empirical predictions from a general theory of signs. Discourse Processes, 40(2), 115-144.



 

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