Nan Bernstein Ratner

Nan Bernstein Ratner is Professor, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park. She is a Fellow and Honors recipient of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA).Her primary areas of research are fluency development and disorder (stuttering), psycholinguistics and the role of adult input and interaction in child language development. The author of numerous research articles, chapters and edited texts, she is the co-author of A Handbook on Stuttering (6th ed) with the late Oliver Bloodstein, as well as The Development of Language (7th ed) and Psycholinguistics (2nd ed.),both with Jean Berko Gleason. She is a Board-recognized Specialist in Child Language Disorders. In 2006, Professor Bernstein Ratner received the Distinguished Researcher award from the International Fluency Association.Populations of particular research and clinical interest to Dr. Bernstein Ratner include children with developmental speech and language disorders (and their parents), people who stutter, children of parents with depression, and children with chronic seizure disorder (epilepsy).Dr. Bernstein Ratner is a member of the following campus units:Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience (NACS): http://www.nacs.umd.edu/Language Science Center (LSC): http://languagescience.umd.edu/University of Maryland Autism Research Consortium: http://.autism.umd.edu Collaborators: Rochelle Newman, Liz Redcay