Interests
Jan Norris has worked in the public schools as both a speech-language pathologist and a special education teacher, and consulted extensively with classroom teachers and special service providers, with over 45 national and 75 state presentations. She has received ASHA’s Clinical Achievement Award twice – once in the state of Nebraska and once in Louisiana, and is a Fellow of ASHA. She has developed specific assessment and intervention strategies to facilitate learning based on Whole Language principles, and has published over 40 articles and book chapters related to preschool and school-aged students. In 1993 she published a book, written with Dr. Paul Hoffman entitled Whole Language Intervention for School-Aged Children (Singular Press) and in 1995 published a year-long integrated curriculum and manual for implementing inclusion in kindergarten entitled Storybook-centered Themes, which is in use in sites across the state as a result of a grant. Currently Dr. Norris is developing materials to improve reading and writing skills, as well as conducting workshops to teachers using distance learning technology. she directs the Language Intervention Laboratory within the Department.
Honors & Awards
- 2000 Faculty Honor Roll, LSU Campus-Community Coalition for Change
- 1998 Honors of the Association, Louisiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- 1998 Notable Teachers College Graduate (U of Nebraska) Award
- 1997 Advisory Council Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
- 1994 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Fellow
- 1992 American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation State (Louisiana) Clinical Achievement Award
Selected Publications
Hoffman, P.R. & Norris, J.A. (in press). Visual strategies to facilitate written language development. In R. McCauley & M.E. Fey Treatment of Language Disorders in Children:Conventional and Controversial Approaches. Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing.
Norris, J.A., and Hoffman, P.R. (In Press). Language contexts, levels, and dimensions: A connectionist perspective on holistic intervention. In R.G. Daniloff (Ed.). Clinical and developmental language behavior from a connectionist perspective. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Badon, L.C. & Norris, J.A. (In Press). A comparison study of story retelling under the conditions of contextualized versus decontextualized reading events in at-risk poor readers.
Norris, J.A. (2002). Phonic Faces Storybooks: 26 different illustrated children’s books to teach print awareness, phonemic awareness, alphabet, and oral language skills. Baton Rouge, LA: EleMentory.
Norris, J.A., & Hoffman, P.R. (2002). Phonemic awareness: A complex developmental process. Topics in Language Disorders. 22, 1-34.
Scott-Trautman, Lisa, Healey, E.Charles, & Norris, Janet (2001). The effects of contextualization on fluency in three groups of children. Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research, 44, 564-576.
Norris, J., & Hoffman, P. (2001). Language development and late talkers: A connectionist perspective. In R.G. Daniloff (Ed), Connectionist Approaches to Clinical Language Problems in Speech and Language, pp. 1-109. Fairfax, VA: TechBooks.
Martino, N.L., Norris, J.A., Hoffman, P.R. (2001). Reading Comprehension Instruction: Effects of two types. Journal of Developmental Education, 25:1, 2-12.
Crowe, L.K., Norris, J.A., & Hoffman, P.R. (2000). Facilitating storybook interactions between mothers and their preschoolers with language impairment. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 21(3) 131-146.
Jambunathan, S., & Norris, J.A. (2000). Perception of self-competence in relation to language competence among preschoolers. Child Study Journal, 30(2).
Oxley, J.D. & Norris, J.A. (2000). Children’s use of memory strategies: Relevance to voice output communication aid use. Augmentative & Alternative Communication, 16, 79-94.
Hoffman, P.R., & Norris, J.A., (1999). Synergy of semantics and syntax in early language intervention. The Journal of Allied Health Professions, 2,8-14.
Norris, J.A. (1998). Psycholinguistic Foundation of Communication Development. In B. Shulman & W. Haynes (Eds.). Communication development: Foundations, processes and clinical applications (pp. 5-28). New York: Williams and Wilkins.
Norris, J.A. (1998). I could read if I just had a little help: Facilitating reading in whole language contexts. In C. Weaver (Ed.) Practicing what we know: informed reading instruction (pp. 513-553). Urbana, Illinois: NCTE Press.
Recent Presentations
Norris, J.A., and Hoffman, P.R. Learning to punctuate using pictures. Poster session presented at the American Speech-language-Hearing Association national convention, Atlanta, GA, Nov 23, 2002.
Norris, J.A., and Hoffman, P.R. What Can the SLP Do for Reading Problems? More Than You Think! Short course presented at the American Speech-language-Hearing Association national convention, Atlanta, GA, Nov 24, 2002.
Doyle, A., Norris, J.A., and Hoffman, P.R. Effects of a Phonemic Alphabet on Preschool Articulation and Print Knowledge. Poster session presented at the American Speech-language-Hearing Association national convention, Atlanta, GA, Nov 22, 2002.
Smith, E.F., Norris, J.A., and Hoffman, P.R. Effects of Elicitation Context on Language Content and Structure. Technical session presented at the American Speech-language-Hearing Association national convention, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 17, 2001.
Norris, J.A., and Hoffman, P.R. 10 Sources of Phonemic Awareness: A Developmental View. Poster session presented at the American Speech-language-Hearing Association national convention, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 17, 2001.
Norris, J.A. Meeting Phonological and Language Goals Using the Classroom Curriculum. Presented at the Louisiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference, June 16, 2001.
Norris, Janet, & Hoffman, Paul. Acquiring phonemic awareness, phonics, and word recognition using visual strategies. Poster session presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association national convention, Washington D.C., Nov. 19, 2000.
Calvery, Lynn, Crowe, Linda, Hoffman, Paul, Norris, Janet, & Reichmuth, Sara. Establishing and maintaining university and school-based research partnerships. Extended Seminar (3hr) presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association national convention, Washington D.C., Nov. 18, 2000.
Jambunathan, Sai, & Norris, Janet A. Perception of self-competence in relation to language competence among preschoolers. Poster session presented at the Conference on Human Development, Memphis, TN, April 14, 2000.
DeKemel, Kathryn, Norris, Janet A., Hoffman, Paul R. Improving LLD Children’s Oral Reading, Inferencing, & Narrative Abilities. Poster session presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association national convention, San Francisco, CA, Nov 19, 1999.
Reichmuth, Sara S., Norris, Janet A. A Comparison of two Reading Approaches for Adult Poor Readers. Poster session presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association national convention, San Francisco, CA, November 17, 1999.
Norris, Janet A., Hoffman, Paul R., Badon, Linda. Conducting Assessments in Early Childhood Using a Dynamic Systems Approach. Extended seminar presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association national convention, San Francisco, CA, November 20, 1999.
Martino, Nancy, Norris, Janet, and Hoffman, Paul. Helping Students Read Text Above Their Independent Reading Level. Poster session presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association national convention, San Francisco, CA, Nov 19, 1999.
Trautman, Lisa S., Healey, E. Charles, Norris, Janet A. Comparison of Discourse Skills in çhildren who Stutter. Seminar presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association national convention, San Francisco, CA, November 19, 1999.
Hoffman, Paul, Buckingham, Hugh W., Norris, Janet A., Oetting, Janna B. CD-ROM Based Phonetic Transcription Laboratory. Computer laboratory presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association national convention, San Francisco, CA, November 18, 1999.
Norris, Janet. Language and Literacy Intervention from Storybooks to Reading Books Mississippi Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Oct. 22, 1999.
Norris, Janet. Language and Literacy Intervention from Storybooks to Reading Books , Iowa Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Oct. 21, 1999.
Hoffman, Paul and Norris, Janet. Phonological Development and Intervention in Narrative Contexts. Georgia Speech-Language-Hearing Association, March 5, 1999
Norris, Janet and Hoffman, Paul. Reading and Writing: Curriculum-based Contexts for Language Learning. Georgia Speech-Language-Hearing Association, March 5, 1999.
Norris, Janet. Language Intervention for Preschool Children: Strategies for Direct. Services, Consultation, Parent Training, and Pervasive Developmental Disorers. Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association, February 19, 1999.
Norris, Janet. Language and Literacy Learning. 3 day short course presented at Hayes State University, Fort Hayes, Kansas, June 15-18, 1999.