Julie Masterson
Associate Provost and Dean, Graduate College | Missouri State University
Springfield, MO, UNITED STATES
Dr. Masterson's interests include spelling and reading, assessment and treatment methods, and the relationship between speech and literacy.
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Dr. Julie Masterson's research and professional interests include spelling and reading skills in individuals with and without disabilities, optimal methods for assessment and documentation of treatment outcomes, and the relationship between phonological productions and literacy skills.
Industry Expertise (2)
Education/Learning
Research
Areas of Expertise (5)
Communication Sciences
Spelling
Education
Speech Pathology
Reading
Accomplishments (7)
Honors of the Association Award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (professional)
2015-11-13
Lifetime achievement award
Research Fellowship (professional)
2011-01-01
Curtin University, Australia
Award for Distinguished Contributions (professional)
2010-01-01
Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences & Disorders
Outstanding Thesis Adviser (professional)
2009-01-01
Missouri State University
Award for Distinguished Contributions (professional)
2006-01-01
Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences & Disorders
University Service Award (professional)
2005-01-01
Missouri State University
DiCarlo Award for Clinical Achievement (professional)
2005-01-01
Missouri Nominee
Education (3)
Memphis State University: Ph.D., Child Language Development/ Disorders 1985
Baylor University: M.S., Speech Pathology and Audiology 1979
Ouachita Baptist University: B.A., Speech/Language Pathology and Elementary Education 1977
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Minds-Eye (1)
Why the weekly spelling test doesn’t stick
When Dr. Julie Masterson noticed her then second-grade son was having difficulty learning to spell some 20 years ago, she approached his teacher and inquired about ways to help him improve his skills. His teacher replied with a simple “Oh that’s normal. He’ll learn.” She took the instructor’s word for it and dropped the subject.
Articles (4)
Comparing the Spelling and Reading Abilities of Students With Cochlear Implants and Students With Typical Hearing
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
2015 The purpose of this study was to determine whether students with and without hearing loss (HL) differed in their spelling abilities and, specifically, in the underlying linguistic awareness skills that support spelling ability...
Preliteracy Speech Sound Production Skill and Linguistic Characteristics of Grade 3 Spellings: A Study Using the Templin Archive
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
2015 This archival investigation examined the relationship between preliteracy speech sound production skill (SSPS) and spelling in Grade 3 using a dataset in which children's receptive vocabulary was generally within normal limits...
Monitoring Progress in Spelling Improvement
SIG 1 Perspectives on Language Learning and Education
2013 In this paper, we discuss the Spelling Sensitivity System (SSS), an accuracy metric basedon the level of linguistic knowledge evidenced by student spellings...
Mental Graphemic Representations
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning
2012 Mental graphemic representations (MGRs) are the stored mental images of written words in memory. These word-specific images can include complete and accurate images of written words (e.g., cat), less clear or incomplete images that contain only a few letters (e.g., prsnl for personnel), or word parts such as prefixes and suffixes (e.g., re-, -ing for recycling)...
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