Kerry Proctor-Williams, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

Department of Communicative Disorders

203 Lamb Hall

Phone:  (423) 439-7187

Fax:  (423) 439-4607

Email: williamk@etsu.edu

Professional Experience:
    1980-1997   Clinical Speech-Language Pathologist in a variety of hospital, school community settings.

Licensure:
    Speech Language Pathologist
    CCC-SLP & Tennessee State Licensure

Clinical Interests:
    Pediatric communication and language development

Research Interests:
    Pediatric intervention approaches and service delivery models; child language acquisition theory

Selected publications:

Fey, M.E., Catts, H.W., Proctor-Williams, K., Tomblin, J.B. & Zhang, X. (2004). Oral and written story composition skills of children with language impairment: A longitudinal investigation. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Proctor-Williams, K., Fey, M.E., & Loeb, D.F. (2001). Parental recasts and production of copulas and articles by children with specific language impairment and typical language. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 10, 155-168.

    Fey, M.E. & Proctor-Williams, K. (2000). Imitation, modeling, and recasting in grammar intervention for children with SLI. In D.V.M.Bishop, & L.B. Leonard (Eds.) Speech and Language Impairments: From Theory to Practice, East Sussex:Psychology Press, 177-194..

    Catts, H., Fey, M.E., & Proctor-Williams, K. (2000). The relationship between language and reading: Preliminary results for a longitudinal investigation. Logopedics, Phoniatrics, and Vocology, 24, 332-343.

    Fey, M.E., Krulik, T.E., Loeb, D.L., & Proctor-Williams, K. (1999). Sentence recast use by parents of children with typical language and specific language impairment.  American Journal of Speech –Language Pathology, 12, 273-286.

Selected Presentations:

     Proctor-Williams, K. & Fey, M.E. (2004, June 10). Recast Density and Acquisition of Irregular Past Tense Verbs.Poster presented at Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI

Balint, M., Dykes, A., Nolley, W. & Proctor-Williams, K. (2003 ,Nov 14). Optional Infinitive Theory and Surface Account in Children's Narratives. Poster presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Chicago, IL.

Williams, A.L., Scott, C., Fagelson, M., Ennis, M., Chase, P. & Proctor-Williams, K. (2003, Nov.13) Mentoring model for retaining quality faculty in research II institutions. Presentation at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Chicago, IL.

Fey, M.E., Catts, H.W, & Proctor-Williams, K. (2001, Nov.). A procedure for assessing school-age children's narrative generation abilities. Extended seminar presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, New Orleans, LA.

Fey, M.E., Catts, H.W, & Proctor-Williams, K. (2000, Nov. 18). Narrative generation by school-age children with typical and impaired language. Poster presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Washington, DC.

Proctor-Williams, K., Fey, M.E., Loeb, D.F., Krulik, T.E., & Johnson, B.W. (1999, June 4). The relationship between parental recasts and morphosyntactic use by children with specific language impairment and children with typical language. Poster presented at the 20^th Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders. Madison, WI.

 Fey, M.E., Krulik, T.E., Loeb, D.F & Proctor-Williams, K. (1999, June3). Sentence recast use by parents of children with typical language and specific language impairment. Poster presented at the 20^th Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders. Madison, WI.

Proctor-Williams, K., & Landy, M. (1999, Mar. 23). A Rural Speech and Language Service Model in Ontario, Canada. Poster presented at the AFASIC Third International Symposium, Speech and language impairments: From theory to practice. York, United  Kingdom.