Pamela Rosenthal Rollins, M.S., Ed.D.
Curriculum Vita
(Spring, 2015)
UTD/Callier Center for Communication Disorders
1966 Inwood Rd., Dallas, TX 75235
(214) 905-3153
[email protected]
Educational History
Doctor of Education, June 1994
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Human Development and Psychology
Thesis: A Case Study of the Development of Language and Communication Skills for Six Children with Autism
Advisor: Catherine E. Snow
Master of Science, December 1983
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Communication Disorders
Bachelor of Science Cum Laude, May 1981
Boston University, Speech Pathology and Audiology
Employment History
Associate Professor (with tenure) School of Behavior and Brain Sciences, September 2000 - present
University of Texas-Dallas, Callier Center for Communicative Disorders,
University of Texas-Dallas Center for Children and Families, (from 2010)
Director, Early Services for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, September 2003 - October 2009
University of Texas-Dallas, Callier Center for Communicative Disorders
Special Faculty Appointment, January, 2006 – August 2008
Southwestern Medical School
Assistant Professor of Communicative Disorders, September 1994 - June, 2000
University of Texas - Dallas, Callier Center for Communicative Disorders
Research Assistant, January 1988 - June 1994
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA
Speech/Language Pathologist, June 1990 - April 1994
Braintree Hospital Pediatric Center, Braintree, MA
Teaching Fellow, January 1989 - June 1990
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA
Speech/Language Pathologist, September 1985 - September 1987
Brighton Early Intervention Program, Brighton, MA
Speech/Language Pathologist, March 1984 - September 1985
Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital, Providence, RI
Professional Recognition/Honors
Gubernatorial reappointment, Texas Council on Autism and PDD, 2014-present
Gubernatorial reappointment, Texas Council on Autism and PDD, 2012-2014
Gubernatorial Appointment, Texas Council on Autism and PDD, 2010-2012
Gubernatorial Appointment, Texas Council on Autism and PDD, 2008-2010
Fellow, ASHA Clinical Practice Research Initiative 2009-2010
Altrusa Foundation Award, 2009
Altrusa Foundation Award, 2008
Special Faculty Appointments, Southwestern Medical School, 2006–8/2008
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Faculty Development Leave, Spring 2005
Callier Scholar, 2004-2005
Callier Scholar, 2001-2002
American Speech and Hearing Foundation First Investigator Award, 1995
Qualifying paper passed with distinction, Harvard University, 1990
Certifications and Licenses
Certificate of Clinical Competence, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 1984 – present
Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist, TX State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and
Audiology
Professional Affiliations
Member, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Member, Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Member, International Society for Infant Studies
Member, International Association for the Study of Child Language
Articles in Refereed Journals
1. Rollins, P. R., Campbell, M., Hoffman, R.T., & Self, K. A (2016) A Community-Based Early
Intervention Program for Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Autism: The International Journal
of Research and Practice. 20 (2), 219-232.
2. Rollins, P. R. (2014). Narrative Skills in Young Adults With High-Functioning Autism Spectrum
Disorders. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 36(1) 21-28
3. Rollins, P. (2014). Personal Narratives in Individuals with High-Functioning ASD: A Lens Into Social
Skills. Perspectives on Language Learning and Education, 21(1), 13-20.
4. Rollins & Greenwald (2013). Affect Attunement during Mother-Infant Interaction: How Specific
Intensities Predict the Stability of Infants’ Joint Attention. In Imagination, Cognition and Personality 32
(4), 339-366.
5. Wang, H., Huang, H., Hu, Y., Anderson, M., Rollins, P., Makedon, F. (2010). Emotion Detection via
Discriminative Kernel Method. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on PErvasive
Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. Article No: 7
6. Doyle, K., Fitzgibbons, L., Rollins, P., and Stringer, CA. (2007). Changes in depression, anxiety, and
psychosocial adjustment to illness following an individual intervention for women with advanced stage
ovarian cancer. APOS 4th Annual Conference Abstracts. Psycho-Oncology, 16, 37
7. Trautman, C.H., & Rollins, P.R. (2006) Child-centered behaviors of caregivers with 12-month-old
infants: Associations with passive joint engagement and later language. Journal of Applied
Pycholinguistics. 27, 447-463
8. McDonnell, S. A., Rollins, P. R., & Friel-Patti, S. (2003) Patterns in maternal/child discourse behaviors
across repeated storybook readings. Applied Pycholinguistics, 24, 324-341
9. Rollins, P. R., (2003) Caregiver contingent comments and subsequent vocabulary Comprehension.
Applied Psycholinguistics, 24, 221-234
10. Moller, A., R., & Rollins, P.R.. (2002). The non-classical auditory pathways are involved in hearing in
children but not in adults. Neuroscience Letters. 319, 41-44
11. Spence, M. Rollins, P. R., Jerger, S., (2002). Recognizing Famous Cartoon Voices: Development
from Childhood to Adulthood. Journal of Speech, Hearing, and Language Research. 45
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12. Rollins, P. R., McCabe, A., & Bliss, L. (2000). Assessment of narrative skills in children. Seminars in
speech and language - Situating Language Assessment: Influences from the past, directions for the
future. 21, 223-234
13. Nicolas, J. G., Geers, A. E., & Rollins, P. R. (1999). Inter-rater reliability as a reflection of ambiguity in
communication of deaf and normally hearing children. Journal of Communication Disorders, 32, 121134
14. Rollins, P. R. (1999). Early pragmatic accomplishments and vocabulary development in preschool
children with Autism. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology: A Journal of Clinical Practice,
8, 85-94
15. Rollins, P. R., & Snow, C. E. (1998). Shared attention and grammatical development in typical children
and children with autism. Journal of Child Language, 25, 653-674
16. Rollins, P. R., Wambacq, I., Dowell, D., Mathues, L., & Reese, P. B. (1998). An intervention technique
for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders: Joint attentional routines. Journal of Communication
Disorders, Special Issue on Autism, 31, 181-193
17. Rollins, P. R., Snow, C. E., & Willett, J. B. (1996). Predictors of MLU: Semantic and morphological
developments. First Language, 16, 243-259
18. McCabe, A.., & Rollins, P. R. (1994). Assessment of preschool narrative skills. American Journal of
Speech-Language Pathology: A Journal of Clinical Practice, 3, 45-56
19. Ninio, A., Snow, C. E., Pan, B. A., & Rollins, P. R. (1994). Classifying communicative acts in children's
interactions. Journal of Communication Disorders, 27, 157-187
20. Rollins, P. R., Pan, B. A., Conti-Ramsden, G., & Snow, C. E. (1994). Communicative skills in children
with Specific Language Impairments: A comparison with their language-matched siblings. Journal of
Communication Disorders, 27, 188-201
Book Chapters in Edited Volumes
1. Rollins, P.R. (2014). Developmental Pragmatics. In Y. Huang (Ed). Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford
University Press (web edition)
2. Rollins, P.R. (2009). Developmental Pragmatics. In L. Cummings (Ed). The Routledge Pragmatics
Encyclopedia, London: Routledge. pp. 110-112
3. Rollins, P. R. (1999). Pragmatics in early interactions. In Edition du Centre National de Suresnes, The
development of communication: Co-construction of shared meaning and the development of first
vocabularies. (DeafBlind International Publication). Paris, France. Published in English, French and
Spanish
4. Rollins, P. R. (1994). Language of children with Specific Language Impairment. In J. L. Sokolov & C.
E. Snow (Eds.), Handbook of Research in Language Development using CHILDES (pp. 372-407).
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
5. Rollins, P. R., Pan, B. A., & Snow, C. E. (1991). A brief tutorial. In MacWhinney, B., The CHILDES
project: Tools for analyzing talk. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Books
1. Rollins, P.R., (2014). Facilitating Early Social Communication: From Theory to Practice. Autism &
Aspergers Publishing Company
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2. Rollins, P.R., (2014). Facilitating Early Social Communication: From Theory to Practice, Teachers
Manual. Autism & Aspergers Publishing Company
3. Rollins, P.R., & McFarlin, M.N., (2014). Robots4Autism. Teaching Social Skills For Life: Facilitator’s
Manual. Dallas, TX: Robokind.
Unrefereed Publications
1. Rollins, P. R., & McFarlin, M. N. (2014). Social Robotics: Technology-aided Instruction. Advance
Healthcare Network for Speech and Hearing. Octobber http://speech-language-pathologyaudiology.advanceweb.com/Features/Articles/Social-Robotics.aspx
Works in Progress
1. Rollins, PR, Sonego, D & Kroiss, A (submitted). Using Humanoid Robots to Foster Social
Engagement in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Journal of Special Education
Technology.(December 2015)
2. Rollins, PR (submitted). Words are not Enough: Providing the Context for Social Communication and
Interaction. Topics in Language Disorders (December 2015)
Other
1. Robots4Autism social skills curriculum programed into the robot
2. Baker, G & Rollins P, Physicians Cost and Quality Evaluation Tool for Consumers. Patent August
2005.
3. Rollins, P.R. (2004) The Rollins Corpus, TalkBank, Pittsburgh, PA
4. Rollins, P.R. (2004) The Clinical Rollins Corpus, TalkBank, Pittsburgh, PA
5. Rollins, P. R., Dromi, E., & Sutton, J. (1997). Transcribing total communication (TC) in CHAT format.
A manual distributed by The Child Language Laboratory, UTD/Callier Center for Communication
Disorders
6. Ninio, A., Wheeler, P., Snow, C. E., Pan, B. A., & Rollins, P. R. (1991). Inventory of communicative
acts-abridged: A manual for classifying verbal communicative acts. Manual distributed by Projects in
Language Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
7. Rollins, P. R. (1990). An inquiry into the language profiles of specific language impaired children,
Qualifying paper passed with distinction, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Refereed Presentations, Abstracts and Posters
1. Rollins, P. R., McFarlin, M. N, & Garver, C. Innovations Using Robotics Technology to Improve Social
Skills in Children with ASD. Texas Speech and Hearing Association. San Antonio, TX (April 2015).
2. Rollins, P. R., & McFarlin, M. N. AAC Strategies to improve social skills in children with Autism.
Paper presented at ATIA 2015. Orlando Fla (January 2015).
3. Rollins, P.R., Precursors to social communication: An intervention study. Paper presented at Texas
Autism Research Conference. Austin TX (July 2014)
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4. Humanoid Robots as an Autism Intervention. Tool to Improve Social Behaviors and Understanding.
OCALIcon. Columbus (November 2013)
5. Wallach, E., & Rollins, P.R., Fable comprehension in adults with high functioning Autism Spectrum
Disorders. Poster presentation at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention.
Chicago, IL. November 2013.
6. Rollins, P., McCabe, A., Hillier, A., Paul, R., Norbury, C., Goldman, S., Einstein, A., Losh, M., &
Hewitt, L. Narratives in high-functioning ASD: Significance and best practices. Symposium
presentation at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Atlanta, GA.
November 2012.
7. Rollins, P.R., & Trautman, C.H. Caregiver Input before Joint Attention: The Role of Multimodal Input.
Presented to International Congress For the Study of Child Language (IASCL): Montreal, July 2011
8. Rollins, P.R., & Trautman, C.H. Talking to babies: are words enough? Presented to International
Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS), Baltimore, MD, March 2010
9. Haass, S., Rollins, P.R., Ulatowska, H., Malaspina, J., The Discourse Profile of an Adult with AS:
Bridging to Cognitive Theories of Autism. Presented to the American Speech-Language Association
Conventions, New Orleans, November 2009
10. Greenwald, L.C., & Rollins, P.R. Affect Attunement during Early Mother-Infant Interaction: How
Specific Intensities Predict the Stability of Infant’s Coordinated Joint Attention Skills. Presented to
International Congress For the Study of Child Language (IASCL): Edinburgh, July 2008 IS ISIS:
Vancouver IS: Vancouve
11. Rollins, P.R. & Greenwald, LC., An Intensity-Specific Dyadic Approach to Analyzing Affect
Attunement during Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Methodological Comparison to Traditional
Methods. Presented to International Congress For the Study of Child Language (IASCL): Edinburgh,
July 2008
IS IS
12. Greenwald, L.C., & Rollins, P.R. Affect Attunement during Early Mother-Infant Interaction: How
Specific Intensities Predict the Stability of Infant’s Coordinated Joint Attention Skills. Presented to
International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, BC March 2008 IS ISIS: Vancouver IS:
Vancouver
13. Greenwald, L.C., & Rollins, P.R. An Intensity-Specific Dyadic Approach to Analyzing Affect
Attunement during Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Methodological Comparison to Traditional
Methods. Presented to International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, BC March 2008 IS
ISIS:
14. Rollins, P. R., & McFarlin, M. N., Early Communication, Language & Social Skills: A program for
children with ASD. Texas Speech Hearing Association, Houston, TX March, 2007
15. Doyle, K., Fitzgibbons, L., Rollins, P., and Stringer, CA., Changes in depression, anxiety, and
psychosocial adjustment to illness following an individual intervention for women with advanced
stage ovarian cancer. Presented at the 4th Annual American Psychosocial Oncology Society's
Meeting, Austin, TX March, 2007
16. Rollins, P. R., Caregivers Contingent Comments to 9-month-old infants and vocabulary
comprehension. Accepted to be presented at 2002 International Conference on Infant Studies,
Toronto, ON April 2002
17. Rollins, P. R., Early pragmatic input and vocabulary development. Proceedings of early lexicon
acquisition: normal and pathological development, Lyon, France December 2001
18. Rollins, P. R., Early pragmatic input and grammatical development. Poster presented to the 22th
Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI. June, 2001
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19. McDonnell, S. A., Rollins, P. R., & Friel-Patti, S. Patterns in maternal/child discourse behaviors
across repeated storybook readings. Poster presented to Society for Research in Child
Development, Biennial Meeting, Mineapolis, MI April, 2001
20. Spence, M., Rollins, P.R., and Jerger, S. Recognizing Famous Cartoon Voices: Development from
Childhood to Adulthood. Bulletin of the American Auditory Society, 25: 99, 2000
21. Spence, M. J., Rollins, P.R., & Jerger, S., Talker Recognition by preschool Children and adults.
Refereed presentation at the 40th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles,
California, November 18-21, 1999
22. Rollins, P. R., Understanding others as intentional agents and vocabulary production in children with
PDD-NOS. Poster presented to the 20th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language
Disorders, Madison, WI. June, 1999
23. Rollins, P. R., Early pragmatic accomplishments and vocabulary development in children with autism.
Poster presented to the 20th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders,
Madison, WI. June, 1999
24. Rollins, P. R., Simpson, A., Ostrofski, K., Mazurek, L., & Clark, K., Pathways to emergent literacy:
Nonimmediate language. Paper presented to the Texas State Conference on Education of the Deaf,
Arlington, TX. August, 1998
25. Rollins, P. R., Wambacq, I., & Marchman, V. A., Assessment of early pragmatic skills: Is parent
report useful? Poster presented to the 19th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language
Disorders, Madison, WI. June, 1998
26. Simpson, A., & Rollins, P. R., Storytelling and decontextualized language in children with hearing
impairments and children with normal hearing. Poster presented to the 19th Annual Symposium on
Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI. June, 1998
27. Rollins, P. R., & Marchman, V. A., Pragmatic contributions to lexical development. Poster presented
to International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta, GA. April, 1998
28. Rollins, P. R., & Mehta, J., Infant gaze following, joint attention and vocabulary development. Poster
presented to International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta, GA. April, 1998
29. Simpson, A., Rollins, P. R., & Tobey, E., Language performance of children with cochlear implants.
Poster presented the American Speech and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA.
November, 1997
30. Simpson, A., Rollins, P. R., & Tobey, E., Language performance of children with cochlear implants.
Poster presented to the 18th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders,
Madison, WI. June, 1997
31. McDonnell, S. A., Friel-Patti, S., & Rollins, P. R., Changes in maternal/child discourse across
repeated storybook readings. Poster presented to Society for Research in Child Development,
Biennial Meeting, Washington, D.C. April, 1997
32. Rollins, P. R., Reese, P. B., Dowell, D., & Mathues, L.. H., Joint attention as a therapeutic technique
for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Paper presented at the Texas Speech and Hearing
Association Annual Convention, Austin, TX. April, 1997
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33. Rollins, P. R., Bay, K. S., & Mathues, L. H., Understanding form function relationships in children with
autistic spectrum disorders. Poster presented at the American Speech and Hearing Association
Annual Convention, Seattle, WA. November, 1996
34. Rollins, P. R., Reese, P. B., Dowell, D., & Mathues, L. H., Joint attention as a therapeutic technique
for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Paper presented at the American Speech and Hearing
Association Annual Convention, Seattle, WA. November, 1996
35. Simpson, A., Tobey, E., & Rollins, P. R., Mother-child interactions in cochlear implanted children.
Poster presented at the American Speech and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Seattle, WA.
November, 1996
36. Rollins, P. R., MLU as a matching variable: Understanding its limitations. Poster presented to
American Speech and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Orlando, FL. December, 1995
37. Rollins, P. R., Shared attention and grammatical development in six children with autism. Poster
presented to American Speech and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Orlando, FL.
December, 1995
38. Rollins, P. R., MLU as a matching variable: Understanding its limitations. Poster presented to the
16th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI. June, 1995
39. Jeffers, K., Bey, K., & Rollins, P. R., Determinants of linguistic competence: Assessment variables.
Poster presented to Texas Speech and Hearing Association Convention, Houston, TX. April, 1995
40. Rollins, P. R., & Snow, C. E., Determinants of mean length of utterance. Poster presented to
American Speech and Hearing Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA. November, 1994
41. MacWhinney, B., Rollins, P. R., Evans, J., & Pan, B. P., Introduction to the Child Language Data
Exchange System (CHILDES). Paper presented to American Speech and Hearing Association
Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA. November, 1991
42. McCabe, A., & Rollins, P. R., Assessment of preschool narrative skills: Prerequisite for literacy.
Paper presented to American Speech and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA.
November, 1991
43. Pan, B. A., Rollins, P. R., & Snow, C. E., Pragmatic and morphosyntactic subsystems in normally
developing and SLI children. Paper presented to American Speech and Hearing Association Annual
Convention, Atlanta, GA. November, 1991
44. Rollins, P. R., Pan, B. A., & Snow, C. E., Phrase saturation as a measure of morphological skills.
Paper presented to American Speech and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA.
November, 1991
45. Rollins, P. R., Relationship among pragmatic, morphosyntactic and lexical indices of language
development. Paper presented to Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Mental
Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Key Biscayne, FL. May, 1991
46. Pan, B. A., Rollins, P. R., & Snow, C. E., Pragmatic development and its relationship to
morphosyntactic indices of language. Paper presented to Society for Research in Child
Development, Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA. April, 1991
47. Pan, B. A., Sokolov, J. L., Rollins, P. R., & Snow, C. E., When is imitation more than imitation? Paper
presented to Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA. April, 1991
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48. Conti-Ramsden, G., Snow, C., Rollins, P. R., & Pan, B., Language impairment: Communicative acts
and mother-child interaction. Paper presented to the Eighth International Congress for the Study of
Child Language, Budapest, Hungary. July, 1990
49. Rollins, P. R., & Pan, B., Speech act use in language impaired children. Paper presented to the
Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI. June, 1989
50. Prizant, B., Corwin-Gotimer, M., Mullen, J., Davis, S., & Rosenthal, P., Service delivery models for
language-impaired children with cognitive/behavioral problems. Paper presented at American,
Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, San Francisco, CA. November, 1984
Invited Symposia and Colloquia Presentations
1. Using Robots to Teach Children with Autism, US White House, Office of Science & Technology Policy.
Washington DC (March 2015)
2. Using Robots to Teach Children with Autism, US Department of Special Education, Office of Special
Education Programs, Washington, DC (March 2015)
3. Social Communication Social Thinking & Communication Development. 6 hour in-service Speech And
Hearing Discussion Group Of Greater Washington DC Metro Area, Rockville MD, November 2014
4. Facilitating Early Social Communication Skills: From Theory to Practice. 2 hour in-service TX Region 11,
Fortworth TX. November 2014
5. Social Communication Social Thinking & Communication Development. 6 hour in-service TX Region 13,
Austin TX. September 2014
6. Early Communication Language & Social Skills Problems in ASD. 45th Annual Kenneth C. Haltalin,
Pediatrics for the Practitioner, Dallas Children’s Medical Center & UT Southwestern Department of
Pediatrics. April 2013
7. Bridging the Gap: Social Communication Social Thinking & Communication Development. 6 hour inservice to Speech Pathologist, Houston Public Schools. March 2013
8. Social Thinking & Communication Development in children with ASD. 43rd Mid-South Conference on
Communication Disorders, Invited Speaker, February 2013
9. What is Autism? Presented at “Autism: A Call to Action” to the 83rd legislation in Austin, TX. Co-sponsors
included Senator Lucio and Rep. Zerwas,. July 2012
10. Building Capacity in Early Identification. Facilitated Discussion at the National Autism Leadership Summit,
November 2011.
11. Social Communication in Young Children with ASD-Intervention strategies for Speech Language
Pathologists. Workshop presented at the second annual InSpeech Conference. February, 2011
12. Words are not enough: Social Communication and Early Signs of Autism, Center for Children and
Families Spring Lecture Series: Raising Healthy Infants- Language and Learning. Dallas, TX February
2010
13. Panel Discussant for Trading Spaces: How Infants Process Events En Route to Language“ Center for
Children and Families Forum, Dallas, TX January, 2010
14. The Ins and Outs of Qualifying Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD). Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act in Texas. Lorman Educational Services. Fort Worth, TX, 2003
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15. Discussant for symposium on Autism, Society for Research and Child Language and the International
Association in Child Language, Madison WI. July, 2002
16. How to Use TALKBANK, with Brian MacWhinney, Society for Research and Child Language and the
International Association in Child Language, Madison WI. July, 2002
17. Pragmatics, The development of communication in persons with congenital deafblindness (Part 2): Coconstruction of shared meaning and the development of first vocabularies, Paris, France. April, 1999
18. Pragmatics in early interaction and beginning of language, Waisman Center Mental Retardation Core
Seminar Series, University of Wisconsin - Madison. October, 1998
19. Pragmatics in early interaction and beginning of language, Expert Seminar on the Emergence of first
representation, symbol formation, and first use of language in persons with congenital deafblindess. Paris,
France. April, 1998
20. The CHILDES database: A users perspective. BRAIN MAP '94: Database development in brain and
behavior, San Antonio, TX. December, 1994
21. MLU and other Clan basics. CHILDES 91 Workshop, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge,
MA. November, 1991
Invited Talks to Professional and Parent Meetings
1. Using Technology to Engage Children with Autism: New Research & Strategies, Texas Council of
Administrators of Special Education (TCASE) Dallas, TX (March 2015)
2. Using Technology to Engage Children with Autism: New Research & Strategies
Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education (TCASE), San Antonio (October, 2015)
3. Precursors to Social Communication: An Intervention Study. Dallas, TX: UT Dallas Callier Center, FLASH
series, October 2014
4. Facilitated Discussion on Early Identification at the National Autism Leadership Summit
OCALIcon. Columbus, November 2013
5. Bridging the gap: Social Thinking & Communication Development Part 1: Talk presented to Council on
Jewish Education Teacher Continuing Education Lecture Series, January 2012
6. Bridging the gap: Social Thinking & Communication Development, Part 2: Talk presented to Council on
Jewish Education Teacher Continuing Education Lecture Series, January 2012
7. Revealing the Hidden Social Code: Creating Social Stories for the Classroom. Talk presented to Council
on Jewish Education Teacher Continuing Education Lecture Series, December 2011
8. Social Communication in Young Children with ASD. Talk presented to the North Texas Autism Society of
America. February 2011
9. Designing, building and testing a virtual child with high function Autism. Presented to UTD/Callier Center
FLASH brown bag series, October 2009
10. The Discourse Profile of an Adult with AS: Bridging to Cognitive Theories of Autism. Presented to
UTD/Callier Center FLASH brown bag series, April 2009
11. Early Signs of Autism for the childcare worker. Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, 10/2009
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12. Key ingredients of effective treatment for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Altrusa Foundation,
Dallas, TX. October 2009
13. The Discourse Profile of an Adult with AS: Bridging to Cognitive Theories of Autism. Presented FLASH
Brown Bag, UTD 2009
14. Controversies in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Medical City Hospital, Pediatric Grand Rounds, Dallas, TX.
October 2008
15. Treatment options for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Altrusa Foundation, Dallas, TX. July 2009
16. Shared Attention: Relationship with language development, parent and teacher in service, Chases Place,
Richardson TX. August 2006
17. Social Communication in infancy and children with autism. Two-day teacher and paraprofessional in
service. Children's Annex, Kingston, N.Y. March, 2006
18. Intervention technique for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Waisman Center for Mental
Retardation, teacher in service. University of Wisconsin - Madison. October, 1998
19. Pathways to emergent literacy: Nonimmediate language. Callier Center Preschool Staff Development,
Dallas, TX. September 1998
20. Nonimmediate language in the classroom. Callier Center Preschool Staff Development, Dallas, TX. April,
1998
21. Inservice on autism, Callier Center Speech Language Pathologists, Dallas, TX. Spring, 1998
22. Assessing play skills in children, Callier Center Speech Language Pathologists, Dallas, TX. Fall, 1996
23. Augmentative communication for children with autism, Denton Chapter, Autism Society of America,
Denton, TX. February 1996
24. Understanding your child's communication skills, Dallas Chapter, Autism Society of America, Dallas, TX.
October 1995
25. Understanding Play, Texas Region 10 Conference, October 1995
26. Autism and pervasive developmental disorders, Speech and Hearing Group of the Washington D.C.
Metropolitan Area. December, 1993
27. Communication skills in autistic children, The Ulster County Chapter, National Society for Autistic
Children, Kingston, N.Y. November, 1985
28. Speech and language needs of multihandicapped and autistic children. Children's Annex, Kingston, N.Y.
November, 1985
29. Augmentative communication for children in sensorimotor stages I-V, Speech Hearing and Language
Center, Morton Hospital, Taunton, MA. November, 1984
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External Funding for Original Investigation
1. “Understanding the effects of using a humanoid robot as a co-therapist with children with ASD”
Rollins, Pamela (PI)
Funding Agency: Robokind
Amount $15,500
Date: October 2015 - June 2016
2. “Understanding the effects of using a humanoid robot as a co-therapist with children with ASD”
Rollins, Pamela (PI)
Funding Agency: Robokind
Amount $22,000
Date: October 2014 - June 2014
3. “Efficacy of a Parent Mediated, Intensive Behavioral and Developmental Intervention (EIBDI): A model
for TX Early Childhood Intervention”
Rollins, Pamela (PI)
Funding Agency: Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services, Texas Council on Autism &
Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Texas Autism Research and Resource Center
$40,000
Date: April 23-Aug 31, 2012
4. “The UTD/Texas Child Health and Development Interactive System (CHADIS) Pilot Project”
Rollins, Pamela (PI)
Funding Agency: Texas Department of Aging and Disabilities,
Amount: $13,000
Date: April 1-Aug 31, 2012
5. “Personal Narratives as an Ecologically Valid Assessment Tool for Pragmatics in Adults with HighFunctioning ASD”
Rollins, Pamela & McCabe, Allyssa (UMass-Lowell)
Funding Agency: Autism Speaks
Date submitted: February 29, 2012
Rejected
6. “Facial Emotion in Children with Autism: Affect Changes and FNIR Brain Patterns”
Anderson, Rollins, Heng, Liu (UT Arlington)
Funding Agency: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
Date submitted: June 20, 2012
Rejected
7. “Early Recognition of Autism Using Game based Simulation”
Anderson, Mindi (UTA); LeFlore, Judi (UTA); Zielke, Marjorie A. (UTD); Rollins, Pamela (UTD);
Dufour, Frank (UTD)
Funding Agency: Patient Safety through Simulation Research (R18); Agency for Health Care
Research and Quality
Amount: $804,503 over three years
Date submitted: June, 2010
Rejected
8. “Effects of Autism Spectrum Disorders on Basic Cognitive Abilities: Behavioral and Neural
Assessments”
Colby, Amanda Earl M.; Rypma, Bart
Funding Agency: DoD
Amount: $573,751
Date submitted: July 28, 2010
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Rejected
9. “Using Emotional Recognition Software to Identify the Abnormal Facial Expressions of High Functioning
Adults with Autism for Personalized Therapy”
Rollins, Pamela & Huang, Heng (UTA)
Funding Agency: DoD Autism Exploration-Hypothesis Development Award
Amount: $140,630 over 1 year
Date submitted: July, 2010
Rejected
10. “Early Diagnosis of Children with Autism using Facial Emotion Recognition Software”
Rollins, Pamela; Anderson, Mindi (UTA) & Huang, Heng (UTA)
Funding Agency: NIH R15 grant
Amount: UTD portion $147,914.00 over three years
Date submitted: October, 2010
Rejected
11. “An event related potentials study of the effects of bimodal language intervention on auditory processing
and language skills”
Rollins, Pamela; Maguire, Mandy
Funding Agency: Autism Speaks
Amount: $295,000 over 3 years
Date submitted: February, 2009
Rejected
12. “Using Event Related Potentials (ERP) as a biomarker to determine effective treatment for children with
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)”
Rollins, Pamela & Maguire, Mandy
Funding Agency: NCTCTSI Pilot Award Program
Amount: $23,468 over 1 year
Date submitted: April, 2009
Rejected
13. Designing, building and testing a virtual child with high function Autism”
Anderson, Mindi (UTA); LeFlore, Judi (UTA); Zielke, Marjorie A. (UTD); Rollins, Pamela (UTD);
Dufour, Frank (UTD)
Funding Agency: NIH National Library of Science Informatics
Amount: UTD portion $ 354027 over three years
Date submitted: July, 2009
Rejected
14. “An event related potentials study of the effects of bimodal language intervention on auditory processing
and language skills in children with autism”
Rollins, Pamela; Maguire, Mandy
Funding agency: Autism Speaks
Date submitted: January, 2006
Rejected
15. “Cerebellar Anatomic and Functional Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorders”
Rollins, Pamela; Dr. G Allen
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $627,000
Date submitted: June, 2005
Rejected
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16. “The social bases of communication: A longitudinal study”
Rollins, Pamela; Spence, Melanie; Marchman, M.
Funding agency: Timberlawn Foundation
Amount: $11,650
Date submitted: November, 1998- November, 2000
Approved
17. “Natural language as an approach to software generation”
Rollins, Pamela; Katz, W
Funding agency: Texas Instruments
Amount: $50,000 (Dr. W. Katz, co-investigator)
Date submitted: October, 1997- October, 1998
Approved
18. “Understanding form-function relationships in children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders: A longitudinal
perspective”
Funding agency: American Speech and Hearing Foundation's Competition for New Investigators
Amount: $4000
Date submitted: January, 1995- December, 1995
Approved
Internal Funding for Original Investigation
“Spoken language comprehension in high functioning college age students with SLI and ASD”
Pamela R. Rollins and Julia Evans
Funding Agency: Faculty Research Initiative Seed Grant, UTD School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Amount: $5000.00
Date Submitted:
“Early Diagnosis of Children with Autism using Facial Emotion Recognition Software”
Rollins, Pamela; Anderson, Mindi (UTA); Huang, Heng (UTA)
Funding Agency: Faculty Research Initiative Seed Grant, UTD School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Amount: $3,500.00
Date submitted: November, 2010
Funded
DV Format Data Collection"
Rollins, Pamela
Funding agency: Callier Center Grant
Amount: $3800
Date submitted: September, 2001- September, 2002
Funded
“The UTD Human Development Language and Communication Data Base”
Rollins, Pamela; Marchman, V.
Funding agency: Faculty Research Initiative Award, UTD School of Human Development
Amount: $3600
Date submitted: January, 1999- December, 1999
Funded
“The UTD Human Development Language and Communication Data Base”
Rollins, Pamela; Marchman, V; Spence, M.
Funding agency: Faculty Research Initiative Award, UTD School of Human Development
Amount: $3600
Date submitted: January, 1998- December, 1998
Funded
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“The relationship between language use and the development of language and literacy skills in deaf and
hearing children”
Rollins, Pamela
Funding agency: Callier Center Excellence in Education Grant
Amount: $16,000
Date submitted: September, 1997- August, 1998
Funded
“The UTD Human Development Language and Communication Data Base”
Rollins, Pamela; Marchman, V.
Funding agency: Faculty Research Initiative Award, UTD School of Human Development
Amount: $3612
Date submitted: January, 1997- December, 1998
Funded
“The development of simultaneous communication (SC) by young hearing and deaf children.”
Rollins, Pamela; Dormi, E.
Funding agency: Callier Center Grant
Amount: $8000
Date submitted: August, 1997- August, 1997
Funded
“Differentiating Autistic Spectrum Disorders from Developmental Learning Disorders.”
Rollins, Pamela; Nezworski, T.
Funding agency: Faculty Research Initiative Award, UTD School of Human Development
Amount: $1000
Date submitted: January, 1995- December, 1995
Funded
“The development of simultaneous communication (SC) by young hearing and deaf children.”
Rollins, Pamela; Dormi, E.
Funding agency: Faculty Research Initiative Award, UTD School of Human Development
Amount: $1000
Date submitted: January 1995- December 1995
Funded
Professional Services
Organizations
Secretary, Texas Council on Autism and PDD, 2013-present
Member, Texas Council on Autism and PDD, 2008-2013 (Gubernatorial appointed)
Advisor to Texas State office of Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS),
Early Childhood Intervention providing input to state rules, technical assistance and training as it relates to
children with ASD, 2013
Member Act Early Texas! Commission, 2013-present
Early Intervention Chair, Texas State Planning Grant for ASD/DD, 2014-present
Autism Treatment Center Clinical Service Committee, 2009 – present
American Speech/Language and Hearing Annual Convention Program Planning Committee, Language
Science Committee, 2008, Autism Committee, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Texas Act Early strategic planning committee, chair 2009 - 2010
Texas Council on Autism and PDD, Strategic Planning, Chair 2009-2010
Texas Governors’ Council on Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, 2008-present
Reviews
Reviewer, Book proposal, Cambridge University Press, 2011
Reviewer, Grant, National Science Foundation, 2008
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Reviewer, book proposal, Brookes Publishing Co, 2007
Reviewer, Language Learning Small Grants Program (Grants program) 1999-2000
Reviewer, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Faculty of Health Science MSc. in Speech and Language
Pathology thesis, 2001
Reviewer, Thinking Publication Press, 1999
Reviewer, Journals: American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, Applied Psycholinguistics, Autism,
Child Development, International Journal of Communication Disorders Journal of Autism and Developmental
Disabilities, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research, Linguistics: An
Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Sciences, Journal of Speech, Hearing Services for the Schools,
University Committees
Library Committee, September 2009-2012
University Teaching Effectiveness Committee, September 1997 - 1999
Campus Facilities Oversight Committee, September 1998 – 2000
Information Recourses committee, September 2000-2002
Committee on Educational Policy, September 2001-2002
Chairperson, Graduate Catalogue Committee 2001-2002
Chairperson, Committee on Educational Policy, September 2002-2003
Committee on Educational Policy, September 2003-2004
School-Wide Committees
Tenure Review Committee, Dr. Sasson, School of Behavior and Brain Sciences, 2014
Chairperson, Third Year Review Committee, Dr. Sasson, School of Behavior and Brain Sciences, 2011
Search Committee, Bi-Lingual Language position, 2011
Third Year Review Committee, Dr. Maguire, School of Behavior and Brain Sciences, 2008
Christal Charity Ball Autism Initiative Committee, 2008
Teaching Effectiveness Committee, September 2003-2006
Search Committee, Child Language-Acquisition and Child Language Disorders Position, September 2003.
Special Task force on Autism, Spring 2003
Chairperson, Search Committee, Child Language Disorders position, September 2002-2003
Search Committee, Child Language Acquisition position, September, 2002-2003
Callier North Advisory Group, September, 2002-2003
Teaching Effectiveness Committee, September 2001-2002
Co-Chairperson, School of Human Development Colloquium, 2000-2001
Undergraduate Steering Committee, September 1998 - 2000
Teaching Effectiveness Committee, June 1997 - October 1997
Child Language Development and Disorders (CLDD) emphasis, December 1996 - present
Program Committees
Callier Center Research Committee, September 2013-present
Curriculum Committee for Student in Speech Language Pathology, September 1994 - 2000
Communicative Disorders Comprehensive Examinations Committee, October 1994 - 2000
Masters’ Advisor in Communicative Disorders, August 1994 - 2000
Speech Pathology Coordinating Committee, January 1995 - June 1995
Callier Link Committee, September 1995 - December 1995
Callier Technology Committee, September 1995 - December 1995
Admissions Committee for Masters’ Program in Communication Disorders, January 1996 - 2000
Teaching
Doctoral Advisement/Direction
Primary Doctoral Advisement/Direction
Carol Trautman, School of Behavior and Brain Sciences, Graduated, December, 2009
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Dissertation: Early Lexical Acquisition in the Real World: Is Coordinated Joint Attention Necessary for Infants
to Benefit from Multimodal Motherese,
Literature review, School of Behavior and Brain Sciences, completed, February 2007
Research Project: Child-centered behaviors of caregivers in interaction with 12-month-old infants, 2005
Lisa Greenwald, School of Behavior and Brain Sciences, Graduated Summer, 2007
Dissertation: The Search for a Precursor to Coordinated Joint Attention: Is Affect Attunement Really The
Answer?
Kim Debarres, Research Project: The Use of Language Facilitation Techniques in the Context of BookReading with Children with Language Impairment
Stephanie Haas, Discontinued
Karry Osgard, Discontinued
Dissertation Committees
Lori Cook, School of Behavior and Brain Sciences Graduated, December, 2009
Kimberly C. Doyle – UT Southwestern, Developing & Evaluating the Efficacy of Delivering Psychoeducational
Individual Interventions to Ovarian Cancer Patients: A Two Phase Study, Graduated Spring, 2007
Gloria Olness, Human Development & Communication Sciences, Graduated Spring, 2000
Sue McDonald, Human Development & Communication Sciences, Graduated Spring, 2000
Trish Hess, Human Development & Communication Sciences, Graduated Fall, 2000
Angela Linum, Human Development & Communication Sciences, Graduate Fall, 1997.
Angela Vaughn, Human Development & Communication Sciences, Graduated Summer, 1999.
Under Graduate Honors Thesis Supervised and Completed
Stacy Hoyer, Communication Disorders, December, 1998.
Judith L. Paterson, Interdisciplinary Studies, August, 1998.
Communication lost.
Jennifer Hwang, Developmental Psychology, December, 1997.
Sensorimotor functioning and understanding others as social means-ends as predictors of communicative
intentions and word production in autism.
Ellen M. Ayers, Communication Disorders, December, 1997.
The form and function of communication in preschool children with autism.
Amanda Owen, Communication Disorders, December, 1997.
Strategies for communication and skill-based activities.
Courses
Current Research in Child Disorders, AUTISM (Ph.D. level)
Seminars in Language Impairments (Ph.D. level)
Social Communication and Language: Infancy and Early Childhood (MS Level)
Assessment & Intervention: Early Childhood Language and Communication Disorders (MS Level)
Language Intervention: Infancy and Early Childhood (MS Level)
Assessment: Child Language Disorders (MS Level)
Introduction to Communication Disorders (undergraduate level)
Language Disorders in Children (undergraduate & MS Level)
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Research Methods I, Applied Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (Ph.D. level)
Research Methods III, Hierarchical Linear Modeling (Ph.D. level)
Research Methods III, Applied Research Design (Ph.D. Level)
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