Karla K. McGregor

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
106 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Karla K. McGregor is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karla K. McGregor has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 45 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 14 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Karla K. McGregor's work include Language Development and Disorders (86 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (72 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (27 papers). Karla K. McGregor is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (86 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (72 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (27 papers). Karla K. McGregor collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Karla K. McGregor's co-authors include Laurence B. Leonard, Li Sheng, Jacob Oleson, Derek J. Stiles, Katherine R. Gordon, George D. Allen, Dawna Duff, Ruth A. Bentler, Umberta Bortolini and María Cristina Caselli and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Karla K. McGregor

102 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

How We Fail Children With Developmental Language Disorder 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150
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  1. How We Fail Children With Developmental Language Disorder
    2020 155 citations Karla K. McGregor Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools profile →

Peers

Karla K. McGregor
Julia L. Evans United States
Letitia Naigles United States
María Cristina Caselli Italy
Barbara Dodd Australia
Robin S. Chapman United States
Shula Chiat United Kingdom
Kathryn Kohnert United States
Alan G. Kamhi United States
Tiffany P. Hogan United States
Jon F. Miller United States
Julia L. Evans United States
Karla K. McGregor
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All Works

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Doucet, Gaëlle E., et al.. (2025). Subcortical brain iron and its link to verbal memory in children with developmental language disorder. Brain and Language. 261. 105531–105531.
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Doucet, Gaëlle E., et al.. (2025). Initial evidence of altered functional network connectivity in children with developmental language disorder. Brain and Language. 270. 105637–105637.
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McGregor, Karla K., et al.. (2024). Inferring Word Class and Meaning From Spoken and Written Texts: A Comparison of Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 67(12). 4783–4798. 1 indexed citations
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McGregor, Karla K., et al.. (2023). A First-Person Account of Developmental Language Disorder. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 32(4). 1383–1396. 13 indexed citations
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Baker, Elise, et al.. (2023). I remembered the chorm! Word learning abilities of children with and without phonological impairment. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 59(3). 913–931.
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Baker, Elise, et al.. (2023). The Relationship Between Speech Perception, Speech Production, and Vocabulary Abilities in Children: Insights From By-Group and Continuous Analyses. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 66(4). 1173–1191. 2 indexed citations
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McGregor, Karla K., et al.. (2023). Abilities and Disabilities Among Children With Developmental Language Disorder. Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools. 54(3). 927–951. 18 indexed citations
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Yamasaki, Brianna L., Karla K. McGregor, & James R. Booth. (2021). Early Phonological Neural Specialization Predicts Later Growth in Word Reading Skills. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 15. 674119–674119. 6 indexed citations
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Gordon, Katherine R., et al.. (2020). Optimising word learning in post-secondary students with Developmental Language Disorder: The roles of retrieval difficulty and retrieval success during training. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 23(4). 405–418. 12 indexed citations
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Alper, Rebecca M., Richard R. Hurtig, & Karla K. McGregor. (2019). The role of maternal psychosocial perceptions in parent-training programs: a preliminary randomized controlled trial. Journal of Child Language. 47(2). 358–381. 6 indexed citations
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McGregor, Karla K., et al.. (2018). Cultural influences on the developing semantic lexicon. Journal of Child Language. 45(6). 1309–1336. 3 indexed citations
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McGregor, Karla K., et al.. (2018). Brief Report: “Um” Fillers Distinguish Children With and Without ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 50(5). 1816–1821. 17 indexed citations
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Gfeller, Kate, et al.. (2015). Do Communication Disorders Extend to Musical Messages? An Answer from Children with Hearing Loss or Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Music Therapy. 52(1). 78–116. 17 indexed citations
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Gordon, Katherine R. & Karla K. McGregor. (2014). A spatially supported forced-choice recognition test reveals children’s long-term memory for newly learned word forms. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 164–164. 14 indexed citations
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Rohlfing, Katharina J., et al.. (2012). A story about a word: does narrative presentation promote learning of a spatial preposition in German two-year-olds?. Journal of Child Language. 40(4). 900–917. 14 indexed citations
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Munro, Natalie, et al.. (2012). Why Word Learning is not Fast. Frontiers in Psychology. 3. 41–41. 61 indexed citations
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McGregor, Karla K., Gwyneth C. Rost, Ling-Yu Guo, & Li Sheng. (2010). What compound words mean to children with specific language impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics. 31(3). 463–487. 14 indexed citations
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Sheng, Li, Karla K. McGregor, & Yi Xu. (2003). Prosodic and lexical‐syntactic aspects of the therapeutic register. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. 17(4-5). 355–363. 6 indexed citations
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Stark, Rachel E. & Karla K. McGregor. (1997). Follow-up Study of a Right- and a Left-Hemispherectomized Child: Implications for Localization and Impairment of Language in Children. Brain and Language. 60(2). 222–242. 27 indexed citations

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