Publications

1. Greenwald, L. C., & Rollins, P. R. (submitted). Attunement during Early Mother-Infant Interaction: How Specific Intensities Predict the Stability of Infant’s Coordinated Joint Attention Skills.

2. Trautman, C. H., & Rollins, P. R. (2006). Child-centered behaviors of caregivers with 12-month-old infants: Associations with passive joint engagement and later language. Journal of Applied Pycholinguistics. 27, 447-463.

3. McDonnell, S. A., Rollins, P. R., & Friel-Patti, S. (2003). Patterns in maternal/child discourse behaviors across repeated storybook readings. Applied Psycholinguistics, 24.

4. Rollins, P. R. (2003) Caregiver Contingent Comments and Subsequent Vocabulary Comprehension. Applied Psycholinguistics, 24, 221-234.

5. Moller, A. R., & Rollins, P.R. (2002). The non-classical auditory pathways are involved in hearing in children but not in adults. Neuroscience Letters. 319, 41-44.

6. Spence, M., Rollins, P. R., & Jerger, S. (2002). Recognizing Famous Cartoon Voices: Development from Childhood to Adulthood. Journal of Speech, Hearing, and Language Research, 45.

7. Rollins, P. R., McCabe, A., & Bliss, L. (2000). Assessment of narrative skills in children. Seminars in speech and language - Situating Language Assessment: Influences from the past, directions for the future. 21, 223-234.

8. Nicolas, J. G., Geers, A. E., & Rollins, P. R. (1999). Inter-rater reliability as a reflection of ambiguity in communication of deaf and normally hearing children. Journal of Communication Disorders, 32, 121-134.

9. Rollins, P. R. (1999). Early pragmatic accomplishments and vocabulary development in preschool children with Autism. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology: A Journal of Clinical Practice, 8, 85-94.

10. Rollins, P. R., & Snow, C. E. (1998). Shared attention and grammatical development in typical children and children with autism. Journal of Child Language, 25, 653-674.

11. Rollins, P. R., Wambacq, I., Dowell, D., Mathues, L., & Reese, P. B. (1998). An intervention technique for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders: Joint attentional routines. Journal of Communication Disorders, Special Issue on Autism, 31, 181-193.

12. Rollins, P. R., Snow, C. E., & Willett, J. B. (1996). Predictors of MLU: Semantic and morphological developments. First Language, 16, 243-259.

13. McCabe, A.., & Rollins, P. R. (1994). Assessment of preschool narrative skills. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology: A Journal of Clinical Practice, 3, 45-56.

14. Ninio, A., Snow, C. E., Pan, B. A., & Rollins, P. R. (1994). Classifying communicative acts in children's interactions. Journal of Communication Disorders, 27, 157-187.

15. Rollins, P. R., Pan, B. A., Conti-Ramsden, G., & Snow, C. E. (1994). Communicative skills in children with Specific Language Impairments: A comparison with their language-matched siblings. Journal of Communication Disorders, 27, 188-201.


Book Chapters in Edited Volumes

1. Rollins, P. R. (in press). Pragmatic Development. In L. Cummings (Ed.), Pragmatics Encyclopedia.

2. Rollins, P. R. (1999). Pragmatics in early interactions. In Edition du Centre National de Suresnes, The development of communication: Co-construction of shared meaning and the development of first vocabularies. (DeafBlind International Publication). Paris, France. Published in English, French and Spanish.

3. Rollins, P. R. (1994). Language of children with Specific Language Impairment. In J. L. Sokolov & C. E. Snow (Eds.), Handbook of Research in Language Development (pp. 372-407). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

4. Rollins, P. R., Pan, B. A., & Snow, C. E. (1991). A brief tutorial. In MacWhinney, B., The CHILDES project: Tools for analyzing talk. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Refereed Presentations, Abstracts, and Posters

1. Greenwald, L. C., & Rollins, P. R. Affect Attunement during Early Mother-Infant Interaction: How Specific Intensities Predict the Stability of Infant’s Coordinated Joint Attention Skills. Presented to International Congress For the Study of Child Language (IASCL): Edinburgh, July 2008.

2. Rollins, P. R. & Greenwald, LC., An Intensity-Specific Dyadic Approach to Analyzing Affect Attunement during Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Methodological Comparison to Traditional Methods. Presented to International Congress For the Study of Child Language (IASCL): Edinburgh, July 2008.

3. Greenwald, L.C., & Rollins, P. R. Affect Attunement during Early Mother-Infant Interaction: How Specific Intensities Predict the Stability of Infant’s Coordinated Joint Attention Skills. Presented to International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, BC March 2008.

4. Greenwald, L.C., & Rollins, P. R. An Intensity-Specific Dyadic Approach to Analyzing Affect Attunement during Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Methodological Comparison to Traditional Methods. Presented to International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, BC March 2008.

5. Rollins, P. R., & McFarlin, M. N., Early Communication, Language & Social Skills: A program for children with ASD. Texas Speech Hearing Association, Houston, TX March, 2007.

6. Doyle, K., Fitzgibbons, L., Rollins, P., and Stringer, CA., Changes in depression, anxiety, and psychosocial adjustment to illness following an individual intervention for women with advanced stage ovarian cancer. Psycho-Oncology, 16(3), S37. Presented at the 4th Annual American Psychosocial Oncology Society's Meeting March 3, 2007.