Rate My Professor Alison Hendricks

Hendricks has served as Principal Investigator on NIH grant R21DC018355 to advance evidence-based practices in communication disorders research. She is the Validation of Impacts Lead for the National AI Institute for Exceptional Education, a $20 million NSF grant awarded to the University at Buffalo in collaboration with eight other institutions, developing AI solutions for early detection of speech and language impairments and virtual teaching assistants for ability-based interventions. Her key publications include "Identifying children at risk for developmental language disorder using a brief, whole-classroom screen" (Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019), "Reading and math achievement in children with dyslexia, developmental language disorder, or typical development: Achievement gaps persist from second through fourth grades" (Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022), "Production of morphosyntax within and across different dialects of American English" (Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020), "Teacher report of students’ dialect use and language ability" (Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021), and "Language assessment with children who speak nonmainstream dialects: Examining the effects of scoring modifications in norm-referenced assessment" (Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2017). Her scholarship informs clinical practices for equitable language assessment and support.