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Nan Bernstein

Ratner

Professor, Hearing and Speech Sciences

Interests:

Language Acquisition, Language Disorders, Psycholinguistics, Stuttering

Corpus Analysis

Projects:

LSC Faculty

Units:

Hearing and Speech Sciences, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

Degree(s):

BA, 1974, Child Study, Tufts University
MA, 1976, Speech-Language Pathology, Temple University
Ed.D., 1982, Applied Psycholinguistics, Boston University

Contact:

nratner@umd.edu

301-405-4217

0141G Lefrak Hall (mail to 0100)

Role(s):

Faculty

Website:

Nan Bernstein Ratner web page in Hearing and Speech Sciences

About:

Nan Bernstein Ratner is Professor, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park. She is a Fellow and Honors recipient of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA).

Her primary areas of research are fluency development and disorder (stuttering), psycholinguistics and the role of adult input and interaction in child language development. The author of numerous research articles, chapters and edited texts, she is the co-author of A Handbook on Stuttering (6th ed) with the late Oliver Bloodstein, as well as The Development of Language (7th ed) and Psycholinguistics (2nd ed.),both with Jean Berko Gleason. She is a Board-recognized Specialist in Child Language Disorders. In 2006, Professor Bernstein Ratner received the Distinguished Researcher award from the International Fluency Association.

Populations of particular research and clinical interest to Dr. Bernstein Ratner include children with developmental speech and language disorders (and their parents), people who stutter, children of parents with depression, and children with chronic seizure disorder (epilepsy).

Dr. Bernstein Ratner is a member of the following campus units: