Sean M. Redmond, Ph.D., CCC-SLP


Sean Redmond
  • Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders

Biography

One main focus of my research has been to provide information on the nature and course of communication disorders across different clinical populations (e.g. specific language impairment, ADHD, cerebral palsy, hearing impairment, vocal nodules, HIV and CMV exposed children) with special attention to the acquisition of morphosyntactic competence. A complementary research focus of mine has been trying to untangle the relationships between primary communication disorders and the emergence of secondary socioemotional difficulties.

Education

Ph.D. in Child Language, University of Kansas, 1997
M.A. in Speech Language Pathology, University of Kansas, 1993
B.A. in Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990

Teaching

COURSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

UNDERGRADUATE             

Speech and Language Development        

Language Disorders in Children        

Introduction to Language Science                          

Clinical Methods

Current Research in Communication Disorders

Independent Study      

MASTERS             

Assessment of Language Disorders in Children

Treatment of Language Disorders in Children

Developmental Language Disorders in Young Children

Language and Learning Disabilities in School Age Children

Independent Study

Master’s Thesis

DOCTORAL SEMINARS/DIRECTED READINGS AND PRACTICUM

Interventions for SLI  

Specific Language Impairment

Research Methods in Child Language

Theoretical Perspectives in Child Language Acquisition

Late Talkers     

Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder

Clinical Pragmatics  

Research Practicum PhD

Doctoral Dissertation

 

Selected Publications

Christopulos, T.T., & Redmond, S.M. (in press). Factors impacting implementation of universal screening of developmental language disorders in public schools. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools.  

Yao T., Malee, K., Zhang, J., Smith, R., Redmond, S., Rice, M. Frederick, T., Torre, P., Mellins, C.A., Hoffman, H.J., and Williams, P.L. (2023). In utero antiretroviral exposure and risk of neurodevelopmental problems in HIV-exposed uninfected five-year old children. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 37(3), 119-130.  

Christopulos, T.T., & Redmond, S.M. (2023). Positive-predictive values associated with adapting the Redmond sentence recall measure into a kindergarten screener for developmental language disorder. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 54, 636-647.

    

Hannig Russell, K., Redmond S.M., & Ash, A.C. (2022). Psycholinguistic profiling of children with sluggish cognitive tempo. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 36. Ahead of print: https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2022.2092422

 

Wilder, A., & Redmond, S.M. (2022). The reliability of short conversational language sample measures in children with and without developmental language disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65, 1939-1955.  

Lee, J.M., Roy, N., Park, A., Muntz, H., Redmond, S.M., Smith, M. (2022). Self-regulation in children with vocal fold nodules: A multilevel analysis. Journal of Communication Disorders, 97, 106203.   

Wilder, A, & Redmond, S.M. (2021). Spontaneous productions of infinitive clauses by English-speaking children with and without specific language impairment. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 35 (1), 43-64.

Redmond, S.M. (2020). Clinical intersections among idiopathic language disorder, social (pragmatic) communication disorder, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63, 3263-3276.

Shimko, A., Redmond, S., Ludlow, A. & Ash, A. (2020). Exploring gender as a potential source of bias in adult judgments of children with specific language impairment and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Communication Disorders, 85, Article 105910.

Ash, A.C., Christopulos, T.T., Redmond, S.M. (2020). Tell me about your child: A grounded theory study of mother’s understanding of language disorder. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 29, 819-840.  

Purswani, M.U., Russell, J.S., Dietrich, M., Spector, S.A., Williams, P., Frederick, T., Burchett, S., Redmond, S.M., Hoffman, H.A., Torre, P., Lee, S., Rice, M.L., & Yao, T. (2020). Birth prevalence of congenital cytomegalovirus infection in HIV-exposed uninfected children in the combination antiretroviral therapy era: Preschool language, cognitive and audiology outcomes. Journal of Pediatrics, 216, 82-87.

Redmond, S.M., Ash, A.C., Christopulos, T.T., & Pfaff, T. (2019). Diagnostic accuracy of sentence recall and past tense measures for identifying children’s language impairments. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62, 2438-2454.  

Rice, M.L., Russell, J.S., Frederick, T., Puswani, M., William, P.L., Siberry, G., Redmond, S.M., Hoffman, H.J., & Yao, T. (2018). Risk for speech and language impairments in pre-school aged HIV-exposed unaffected children with in utero combination antiretroviral exposure. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 37 (7), 678-685.

Redmond, S.M., & Ash, A.C. (2017). Associations between the 2D:4D proxy biomarker for prenatal hormone exposures and symptoms of developmental language disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 3326-3336.      

Ash, A.C., & Redmond, S.M., Timler, G.R., & Kean, J. (2017). The influence of scale structure and sex on parental reports of children’s social (pragmatic) communication symptoms. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 31 (4), 293-312.

Bishop, D.V.M., Snowling, M.J., Thompson, P.A., Greenhalgh, T., & CATALISE consortium (54 members including S.M. Redmond) (2017). CATALISE: A multinational and multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study. Phase 2. Terminology for problems with language development. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58, online access 03-30-17.   

Bishop, D.V.M., Snowling, M.J., Thompson, P.A., Greenhalgh, T., & CATALISE consortium (54 members including S.M. Redmond) (2016). CATALISE: A multinational and multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study. Identifying language impairments in children. PLOS One, July 8, 2016.

Redmond, S.M. (2016), Tao, T., Russell, J.S., Rice, M.L., Hoffman, H.J., Siberry, G.K., Purswani, M., Williams, P.L. for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS). Longitudinal evaluation of language impairment in youth with perinatally acquired HIV and youth with perinatal HIV exposure. Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 5 (Supplement 1), 33-40.     

 

Redmond, S.M. (2016a). Markers, models, and measurement error: Exploring the links between attention deficits and language impairments. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59, 62-71.

Redmond, S.M. (2016b). Language impairment in the ADHD context. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 59, 133-142.

Redmond, S.M., Ash, A.C., & Hogan, T.P. (2015). Consequences of co-occurring attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder on children’s language impairments. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 46, 68-80.

 

Selected Presentations

Redmond, S.M. (2023). Adapting sentence recall tasks into screeners for pediatric language disorders. Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Science, Prague, Czechia

Redmond, S.M., (2023). Links between children’s ADHD symptoms and their language abilities. Invited speaker presentation. Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Science, Prague, Czechia

Redmond, S.M. (2023). Links between children’s ADHD symptoms and their language abilities. Invited speaker presentation. USHA Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.  

Redmond, S., Ash, A., & Zhang, Y. (2023). Links among ADHD symptoms and linguistic abilities are different for children with and without language disorder. Oral presentation International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders 32nd World Congress, Auckland, New Zealand.

Redmond, S., Ash, A., & Zhang, Y. (2023). Effects of stimulant medications on estimates of verbal and reading abilities for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Oral presentation International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders 32nd World Congress, Auckland, New Zealand.

Redmond, S., Ash, A., & Zhang, Y (2023). Do stimulant medications improve DLD symptoms? Poster presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Wilder, A., Redmond, S., & Ash, A. (2023). Using language samples to identify developmental language disorder in 5-6-year-olds: look at the errors. Poster presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Ash, A., Pruett, K., Redmond, S., & Myers, B. (2023). Communicating speech-language pathology services: A study of parental perceptions and preferences. Poster presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Hu, A., Redmond, S., Qi, Z., & Franich, K. (2023). Accommodation to vocal pitch in children with autism. Poster presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Redmond, S.M. (2022). How does ADHD contribute to children’s language and literacy deficits? Invited speaker presentation at the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association Convention, New Orleans, LA.

Redmond, S.M. (2022). Developmental language disorder and ADHD: Understanding their co-occurrence. Invited speaker presentation at the Kay Butler Virtual Language Symposium. American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders.

Houghton, S. & Redmond, S.M. (2022). Linguistic mazes in narratives produced by children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Technical session at the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association National Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Wilder, A., & Redmond, S.M. (2022). What 25- and 50-utterances language samples can and can’t tell us about language disorder. Technical session at the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association National Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.  

Redmond, S.M., & Ash, A.C. (2022). The place for S(P)CD in taxonomies of idiopathic language disorder”. Poster presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Redmond, S.M., Rice, M.L., & Ash, A.C. (2022). The relative impacts of ADHD and SLI on children’s judgments of grammaticality”. Poster presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Wilder, A. & Redmond, S.M. (2022). Does length matter? Comparing short and long language samples from elementary students. Oral presentation (first author) at the Utah Speech-Language Hearing Association, Virtual Conference.    

Redmond, S.M. (2021). Barriers and solutions to differential diagnosis in developmental language disorders. Invited speaker workshop at the Speech, Language, and Hearing Association of Virginia Conference, Richmond, VA. (virtual conference)

Ash, A., Meldrum, J., & Redmond, S. (2021). A preliminary analysis of a narrative composite from the Children’s Communication Checklist-2. Poster presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Christopulos, T., & Redmond, S. (2021). Identification of barriers/facilitators and levels of agreement between teachers and SLPs regarding universal screening of language impairment in public schools. Poster presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Hannig, K., Redmond, S., & Ash, A. (2021). Social, emotional, and behavioral fallout of concomitant language disorder on ADHD. Poster presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Wilder, A., Redmond, S., & Ash, A. (2021). Reliability and validity of short language samples. Poster presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Redmond, S.M. (2020). Screening for language impairments in early elementary students using clinical markers: Part 1. Invited speaker presentation at the Summer Conference for Special Educators, Jordan School District, UT. (virtual conference)

Redmond, S.M. (2020). The feasibility of adapting clinical markers into screeners for language impairments. Invited speaker presentation at the Speech Language Pathologists Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City School District, Salt Lake City, UT.    

Hannig, K., Redmond, S., & Ash, A. (2020). Social, emotional, and behavioral fallout of concomitant language disorder on ADHD. Poster presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison. (Conference Canceled; Not included in presentation tally).

Wilder, A., Redmond, S., & Ash, A. (2020). Reliability and validity of selected measures based on short language samples. Oral presentation (first author) at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison. (Conference Canceled; Not included in presentation tally).

Redmond, S.M. (2019). Clinical intersections among specific language impairment, social (pragmatic) communication disorder, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Research Symposium Seminar at the American Speech, Language, Hearing Association Convention, Orlando FL.  

Redmond, S.M. (2019). Language disorder, ADHD, or both? Meeting the challenges of differential diagnosis. Speech Language Pathologist Workshop, San Diego School District, San Diego, CA.

Redmond, S.M. (2019). Establishing differential diagnosis in child language disorders. Invited speaker presentation at Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE.  

Redmond, S.M. (2019). The clinical intersections of language disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Distinguished Lecture, Center for Research on Challenges in the Acquisition of Language and Literacy (CRCALL), Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.

Redmond, S.M. (2019). Sex and linguistic risk. Invited speaker presentation at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

Redmond, S.M. (2019). Sex and linguistic risk. Invited speaker presentation Spring Colloquium Series, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Redmond, S.M. (2019). Recent advances in the assessment and treatment of language disorders in young children. Invited speaker presentation at the Granite School District Preschool Workshop, Salt Lake City, UT.

Redmond, S.M. (2019). The diagnostic accuracy of sentence recall and past tense marking for children’s language impairments depends on the target. Oral presentation at the World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, Taipei, Taiwan.   

Hancock, N., Redmond, S.M., Fox, A.B, Ash, A.C., & Hogan, T.P. (2019). Modeling the relationship between decoding and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in children with language impairment. Oral Presentation at the New England Research on Dyslexia Society Conference, Boston, MA.

Hannig, K., Redmond, S. & Ash, A. (2019). Familial overlap between SLI and ADHD: An exploratory study. Poster presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Redmond, S.M. (2018). The clinical markers, boundaries, and comorbidities of developmental language disorder. Invited speaker presentation at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, NY.

Redmond, S.M. (2018).  Psycholinguistic characteristics of sluggish cognitive tempo/concentration deficit disorder. Invited speaker presentation at the Jayhawk Research Retreat, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS.

Redmond, S., and Hannig, K. (2018). The clinical intersection of sluggish cognitive tempo/concentration deficit disorder and language disorder. Technical research session at the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association National Convention, Boston, Massachusetts.   

Owen van Horne, A., Ebbels, S., Redmond, S., and Finestack, E. (2018). SLI, PLI, LLD, or DLD? A debate on terminology in child language research. Seminar at the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association National Convention, Boston, Massachusetts.   

Redmond, S.M.., Hannig, K.M.& Ash, A.C. (2018). Presentation of sluggish cognitive tempo symptoms in children with SLI and other DLDs. Oral presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Hannig, K.M., Redmond, S.M., & Ash, A.C. (2018). Psycholinguistic profiling of children with sluggish cognitive tempo. Poster presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Wilder, A., Redmond, S.M., & Ash, A.C. (2018). Infinitive clauses produced by children with SLI and other DLDs? Poster presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

 

 

 

Awards & Honors

2021     Board Certified Specialist in Child Language, American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders  

2019     Certificate of Appreciation, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (for Editor in Chief Position Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)

2017     CSD Department Undergraduate Teaching Award

2016     Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA-F)

2016     The University of Utah College of Health Senior Researcher Award     

 

Grants & Other Funded Activity

2018-2023    NIH, NIDCD     R01DC017153: “Developmental Course of Language Impairments, Attention Deficits, and their Co-occurrence” Sean Redmond (PI). Amount awarded: $1,906, 250.

2017-2022    NIH, NIDCD U01 DC014706-A101 “Randomized Trial to Determine the Role of Valganciclovir for Asymptomatic Cytomegalovirus Infected Hearing Impaired Infants”. Albert Park (PI). Sean Redmond (Co-I), Amount awarded: $422, 348

2013-2018    NIH, NICHD U01 HD052104 “Pediatric HIV AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS)”, Russel Van Dyke (PI). Scientific Leadership Group subcontract, Sean Redmond (Co-I). Amount awarded: $1,073,131