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Campus: Wheeling
Email: dgerman@nl.edu
Phone: 847.947.5991
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Biography
Diane German is a professor of special education at NLU in Chicago. She is holder of the Ryan Endowed Chair in Special Education created to support her work in Word Finding. She is an ASHA 2008 Fellow and a Fellow in the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities.
German has published and presented many articles, technical papers and conducted seminars in Child Word Finding. She has authored the standard in Word Finding assessment, the Test of Word Finding, Second Edition; the Test of Adolescent/Adult Word Finding, and the Test of Word Finding in Discourse. She is also author of the Word Finding Intervention Program, Second Edition. She teaches courses focused on word finding assessment, intervention, and best practices in the classroom for learners with word finding difficulties.
Education
Ph.D.Publications
German, D. J. (2008). Formulate a second hypothesis: Word-Finding based oral reading errors. Featured article in the Newsletter of the Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ISHA) 33 (2), 10-12.
German, D. J., & Newman, R. S. (2007). Oral reading skills of children with oral language (word finding difficulties). Reading Psychology, 28 (5), 397-442.
Newman, R. S. & German, D. J. (2005). Life span effects of lexical factors on oral naming. Language and Speech, 48 (2), 123-156.
German, D. J., & Newman, R. S. (2004). The impact of lexical factors on children’s word-finding errors. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47 (3), 624-636.
Newman, R. S., & German, D. J. (2002). Effects of lexical factors on lexical access among typical language-learning children and children with word-finding difficulties. Language and Speech, 43 (3), 285-317.
German, D. J. (2002). A phonologically based strategy to improve word-finding abilities in children, Communication Disorders Quarterly, 23 (4), 179-192.
German, D. J. (2005). Word-Finding Intervention Program, Second Edition (WFIP-2). Austin, Texas: Pro-ed.
German, D. J. (2001). It's On The Tip Of My Tongue, Word-Finding Strategies to Remember Those Names and Words You Often Forget. Available through School Specialties, Interactive Therapeutics, and Janelle Publishers
German, D. J. (2000). Test of Word Finding, Second Edition (TWF-2). Austin, Texas: Pro-ed.
Presentations
Wakefield, D., VanSlyke, P., German, D. (2008, November) Language Difficulties: Technology Interventions Within an RTI Model, Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Speech Language Hearing Association Annual Convention, Chicago
German, D. J. (2008, November) Word Finding (WF) Difficulties: Programming Within an RTI Service Delivery Model, Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Speech Language Hearing Association Annual Convention, Chicago
German, D. J. (2008, April). Programming in Word Finding: Deep assessment and comprehensive intervention. Invited presentation at the Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (CASLPA), Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada.
German, D. J. (2007, October). Programming in Word Finding: Comprehensive intervention based on deep assessment. Invited presentation at the Indiana Speech and Hearing Association (ISHA), Carmel, Indiana.
German, D. J. (2007, October). Word Finding: Intervention for improved school performance. Invited presentation at the MISD and Macomb/St. Clair Speech-Language-Hearing Association, McComb, Michigan.
German, D. J. (2007, September). Programming in Word Finding: Comprehensive intervention based on deep assessment. Invited presentation at Wee Speech, Skokie, Illinois.
German, D. J. (2007, May). Programming in Word Finding: Deep assessment and comprehensive intervention. 2 full day seminars for Denmark SLP’s, Copenhagen, Denmark. Sponsored by Seminar, DK.
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Press Releases
Screening tests for reading problems 'misread' some childrenMonday, November 19, 2007