Publications

O’Fallon, M. K., Alper, R. M., Beiting, M., & Luo, R. (2022). Assessing Shared Reading in Families at Risk: Does Quantity Predict Quality?. American journal of speech-language pathology, 31(5), 2108–2122. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-22-00013

Beiting, M., Alper, R. M., Luo, R., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2022). Keep the Ball Rolling: Sustained Multiturn Conversational Episodes Are Associated With Child Language Ability. American journal of speech-language pathology, 31(5), 2186–2194. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-21-00333

Alper, R. M., Beiting, M., Luo, R., Jaen, J., Peel, M., Levi, O., Robinson, C., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2021). Change the Things You Can: Modifiable Parent Characteristics Predict High-Quality Early Language Interaction Within Socioeconomic Status. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 64(6), 1992–2004. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00412

Alper, R. M., Hurtig, R. R., & McGregor, K. K. (2020). The role of maternal psychosocial perceptions in parent-training programs: a preliminary randomized controlled trial. Journal of child language, 47(2), 358–381. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000919000138

Hurtig, R. R., Alper, R. M., Bryant, K. N. T., Davidson, K. R., & Bilskemper, C. (2019). Improving Patient Safety and Patient-Provider Communication. Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groups, 4(5), 1017–1027. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_persp-19-00134

Luo, R., Alper, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Mogul, M., Chen, Y., Masek, L. R., Paterson, S., Pace, A., Adamson, L. B., Bakeman, R., Golinkoff, R. M., & Owen, M. T. (2019). Community-Based, Caregiver-Implemented Early Language Intervention in High-Risk Families: Lessons Learned. Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action, 13(3), 283–291. https://doi.org/10.1353/cpr.2019.0056

Hurtig, R. R., Alper, R. M., & Berkowitz, B. (2018). The cost of not addressing the communication barriers faced by hospitalized patients. Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groups, 3(12), 99–112. https://doi.org/10.1044/persp3.SIG12.99

McGregor, K. K., & Alper, R. M. (2015). Sleep Disorders as a Risk to Language Learning and Use. EBP briefs, 10(1), 1–21.

Alper, R., Fu, X., Erickson-Levendoski, E., Zheng, W., & Sivasankar, M. (2011). Acute stress to excised vocal fold epithelium from reactive oxygen species. The Laryngoscope, 121(10), 2180–2184. https://doi.org/10.1002/lary.22157