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James Montgomery

James Montgomery
Professor and Coordinator for PhD programs

Jim Montgomery, professor, is associate director of Communication Sciences and Disorder. His teaching area is language and cognitive impairments in school-age children and adolescents with language impairment. He has an active research program focusing on these children’s cognition and sentence comprehension and interventions to remediate their sentence comprehension deficits.

Education

· PhD: Communication Sciences and Disorders, Wichita State University, 1988

· MA: Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University, 1982

· BA: Communication Arts and Sciences, DePauw University, 1979

Research/Professional Interests

· Cognitive-Linguistics Underpinnings of Sentence Comprehension in Children with Developmental Language Disorder

· Intervention Approaches to Remediating Sentence Comprehension Deficits in Children with Developmental Language Disorder

Teaching Experience

· MA Course: Language Disabilities in School-Age Children and Adolescents

· PhD Seminars: Cognition and Attention, Psycholinguistics, Grant Writing

Clinical Experience

· Diagnosis and Treatment of Children with Language Disabilities

Publications (Select)

· Montgomery, J., Gillam, R., Evans, J., Fargo, J., & Schwartz, S. (in press). Comparison of the storage-only deficit and joint mechanism deficit hypotheses of the verbal working memory capacity limitation of children with developmental language disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

· Evans, J., Gillam, R., & Montgomery, J. (2018). Cognitive predictors of spoken word recognition in children with and without developmental language disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61, 1409-1425.

· Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Fargo, J., Schwartz, S., & Gillam, R. (2018). Structural relationship between cognitive processing and syntactic sentence comprehension in children with and without developmental language disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61, 2950-2976.

· Montgomery, J., Gillam, R., Evans, J., & Sergeev, A. (2017). Whatdunit? Sentence comprehension abilities of children with SLI: Sensitivity to word order in canonical and noncanonical sentences. Journal of Speech and Language Hearing Research, 60, 2603-2618.

· Ahmad Rusli, Y., & Montgomery, J. (2017). Children’s comprehension of object relative sentences: It’s extant language knowledge that matters, not domain-general working memory. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 2865-2878.

· Montgomery, J., Gillam, R., & Evans, J. (2016). Syntactic versus memory-based accounts of sentence comprehension in children with SLI: Looking back, looking ahead. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59, 1491-1504.

· Fu, G., Wan, N., Baker, J., Montgomery, J., Evans, J., & Gillam, R. (2016). A proof of concept study of function-based statistical analysis of fNIRs data: Syntax comprehension in children with specific language impairment compared to typically developing controls. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00108

· Montgomery, J., Evans, J., Gillam, R., Sergeev, A., & Finney, M. (2016). Whatdunit?: Developmental changes in children’s syntactically-based sentence interpretation abilities and sensitivity to word order. Applied Psycholinguistics, 37, 1281-1309.

· Finney, M., Montgomery, J., Gillam, R., & Evans, J. (2014). Role of working memory storage and attention focus switching in children’s comprehension of spoken object relative sentences. Child Development Research, 54, 1-11.

· Magimairaj, B., & Montgomery, J. (2013). Examining the relative contribution of memory updating, attention focus switching, and sustained attention to children’s verbal working memory span. Child Development Research, 53, 1-12.

· Magimairaj, B., & Montgomery, J. (2012). Children’s verbal working memory and the role of processing complexity in predicting spoken sentence comprehension. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 55, 669-682.

· Magimairaj, B., & Montgomery, J. (2012). Children's verbal working memory: Relative importance of storage, general processing speed, and domain-general controlled attention. Acta Psychologica, 140, 196-207.

· Montgomery, J., Magimairaj, B., & Finney, M. (2010). Working memory and specific language impairment: An update on the relation and perspectives on assessment and treatment. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 19, 78-94.

Grants

· Principal Investigator (Co-PIs: Julia Evans, Ron Gillam): Cognitive Processing and Sentence Comprehension in SLI. R01 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

· Principal Investigator: Language and rate processing in language impaired children. R01 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

· Co-Investigator (PI: Joseph Hall): Development and plasticity in normal and impaired ears. R01 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

· Co-Investigator (PI: Joanne Roberts): Otitis media and school outcomes: Environmental mediators. R01 from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development.

· Principal Investigator: Inflectional processing by language impaired children. R03 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

Awards and Honors

· Fellow American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

· Editor’s Award: American Journal of Speech Language Pathology for article “Understanding the language difficulties of children with language impairments: Does verbal working memory matter?”

· Outstanding Alumi Award from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Wichita State University

University/Professional Service (Select)

· Council on Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activity

· Presidential Scholar Research Award Competition

· Grant Reviewer: NIH

· Grant Reviewer: ASHA Foundation

· Associate Editor: Preschool and School-Age Language, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

· Associate Editor for Language: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

· Associate Editor-Language: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

· Reviewer: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

· Reviewer: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

· Reviewer: Topics in Language Disorders

· Reviewer: Speech, Language Services in Schools

· Reviewer: Applied Psycholinguistics

· Reviewer: Journal of Communication Disorders

· Reviewer: Ear and Hearing

· Reviewer: First Language

· Reviewer: Journal of Child Language

· Reviewer: Language Learning

· Reviewer: Child Development

· Reviewer: Developmental Psychology

· Reviewer: Trends in Cognitive Sciences

· Reviewer: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

· Reviewer: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

· Reviewer: Journal of Memory and Language

· Reviewer: Journal of Learning Disabilities

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