Lori Osborn Ph.D.
Education
- Ph.D., Human Development and Communications Sciences, University of Texas
- M.S., Communications Disorders, University of Texas
- B.A., English, Mary Washington College
Professional Background
Dr. Osborn is a licensed and certified speech-language pathologist. She has worked in the public schools as well as a hospital setting. Currently, she supervises a clinical intervention program with pre-school and school-age populations at risk for language and learning problems.
Professional Affiliations
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American Speech-Language Hearing Association
Special Interest Division 1: Language and Learning Disorders -
International Dyslexia Association
Inland Empire Branch Affiliate
Publications
Osborn, L. (2015) Implementing a Systematic Oral Narrative Intervention Program. Technical presentation delivered at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Denver, CO.
Conboy, B., Chavez, N., Grasso, S., Osborn, L. (2014). Input characteristics and language development in English-Spanish dual language-learning toddlers. Poster presented at the Interventional Conference for the Study of Child Language, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Conboy, B., Chavez, N., Grasso, S., Osborn, L. (2014). Language input and language use in 2-year-old English-Spanish bilingual children. Poster presented at the Interventional Conference for Infant Studies, Berlin, Germany.
Chavez, N., Conboy, B., Grasso, S., Osborn, L. (2014) Is language mixing in the input to 2-year-old bilingual children associated with vocabulary and grammatical development?" Technical presentation at the California Speech-Language Hearing Association Convention, Monterey, CA.
Grasso, S., Mora, L., Conboy, B., Osborn, L. (2012). Language Growth in English-Spanish Bilingual 2-Year-Old Children. Poster presented at the American Speech-Language Hearing Association Convention, Atlanta, GA.
Conboy, B., Grasso, S. and Osborn, L. (2012) Lexical and Grammatical Complexity in Two-Year-Old English-Spanish Bilingual Children. Poster presentation at the International Conference on Bilingual and Multilingual Interaction. Wales, United Kingdom.
Areas of Expertise
Dr. Osborn's research focus involves children with language and learning problems. Her current research interests include evaluating the effectiveness of providing oral narrative intervention to school-age children to children at risk for language-learning problems. Dr. Osborn has presented her research at national conferences including the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders and the American Speech-Language Hearing Association Convention.