Rate My Professor LaVae Hoffman

LaVae Hoffman is Associate Professor and Communication Sciences and Disorders Program Director in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. from the University of Minnesota at Duluth, and a B.A.S. from the University of Minnesota at Duluth. Before joining UVA, she worked as research coordinator for an NIH-funded multi-site randomized controlled trial examining language intervention efficacy with school-age children. At UVA, she directs the Child Language Disorders Laboratory, serves as core faculty in the U.S. Department of Education-funded Leaders for Tomorrow's Children doctoral program, and is a member of the University Academy of Teaching. Hoffman chairs ASHA's Special Interest Group 1 Coordinating Committee on Language Learning and Education and serves as associate editor for Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. She has received ASHA Editor's Awards for research quality and impact and is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Hoffman's research focuses on child language development and disorders, including the efficacy and effectiveness of language interventions, development of measures of language abilities in children, cognition and attention issues in preschool and school-age children, and research-based supports for parents of children with language deficits. Her recent projects involve assessing evidence-based practices in speech-language pathology in public schools, analyses of narrative language skills, and psychometric properties of oral language measures in school-aged children with language disorders. She presents on Response to Intervention, narrative assessment, literature-based language intervention, dynamic assessment, and information processing for speech-language pathologists. Key publications include 'The efficacy of Fast ForWord language intervention in school-age children with language impairment: A randomized controlled trial' (Gillam et al., 2008, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research), 'Verbal and spatial information processing constraints in children with specific language impairment' (Hoffman & Gillam, 2004, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research), 'Evidence-based speech-language pathology practices in schools: Findings from a national survey' (Hoffman et al., 2013, Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools), and 'School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists' Engagement With Evidence-Based Practice: An Update With Implications for Implementation Research' (Hall-Mills et al., 2023, Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools).