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| Frances A. Conners Associate Professor |
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| Developmental Science | Cognitive Psychology | ||||
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| Office: | 168 Gordon Palmer |
PY355 General Experimental Psychology PY607 Research Methods in Psychology PY491 Seminar in Psychology: Intellectual Disability PY624 Developmental Disabilities |
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| Phone: | 348-7913 | ||||
| FAX: | (205) 348-8648 | ||||
| E-Mail: | fconners@bama.ua.edu | ||||
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| Research Interests: | My main research interests are in cognition and language in individuals with developmental disabilities. I look for areas of strength as well as areas of specific weakness, how they impact on higher-level cognitive/language function, and what implications there are for intervention. My focus areas are in implicit processing, working memory, and reading. | ||||
| Research Affiliations: | Developmental Disabilities Researchers | ||||
| Recent Publications: |
Conners, F. A., Moore, M. S., Loveall, S. J., & Merrill, E. C. (2011). Memory profiles of Down, Williams, and Fragile X syndromes: Implications for reading development. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 32, 405-417. |
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Conners, F. A., Loveall, S. J., Moore, M. S., Hume, L. E., & Maddox, C. D. (2011). An individual differences analysis of the self-teaching hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108, 402-410. |
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Conners, F. A. (2009). Attentional control and the simple view of reading. Reading and Writing, 22, 591-613. |
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Conners, F. A., Rosenquist, C. J., Arnett, L. Moore, M. S., & Hume, L. E. (2008). Improving memory span in children with Down syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 52, 244-255. |
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| Abbeduto, L., Warren, S., & Conners, F. (2007). Language development in Down syndrome: From the prelinguistic period to the acquisition of literacy. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Review, 13, 247-261. | |||||