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Professor Kirrie Ballard

BSpThy University of Queensland 1983 MA Northwestern University, USA 1994 PhD Northwestern University, USA 1997

Professor

Phone

0431 416 936

Email

kirrie.ballard@sydney.edu.au

Details

Member of the Brain and Mind Centre

Member of the Charles Perkins Centre

Websites

Communication Sciences & Disorders

Biographical details

Professor Ballard completed her undergraduate degree at University of Queensland in 1983 and worked primarily as a paediatric speech pathologist in Queensland and New South Wales until moving to the USA in 1992. She completed a Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology (1994) and PhD (1997) at Northwestern University in Illinois and went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Voice and Speech at University of Iowa.Professor Ballard has held academic positions in the Speech Pathology departments of Indiana University and the University of Iowa.

Since 2006,Professor Ballard has been at the University of Sydney where she served as Head of Speech Pathology and Director of the Graduate Entry Masters program until July 2012.She has recently taken up a four-year research fellowship.Professor Ballard has published on diagnostic approaches and procedures for acquired and childhood speech and language disorders (particularly apraxia of speech) and on application of the principles of motor learning framework to treatment of motor speech disorders in adults and children.

Professor Ballard's research has attracted funding from the National Institutes of Health in the USA and the NH&MRC and ARC in Australia as well as professional groups such as the American Speech Language and Hearing Association and the Motor Neurone Disease Research Institute of Australia.

Research interests

Speech Motor Control and Learning
Acquired and Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Neuroimaging in these populations
Prosody (Lexical Stress) development and disorders

Professor Ballard is a member of the Communication Sciences and Disorders team.

Teaching and supervision

Motor Speech Disorders content in undergraduate and masters Speech-Language Pathology programs in Australia and the USA.
Honours seminar
I am currently Primary Supervisor for three PhD and 1 Masters-by-Research students and Associate Supervisor for four PhD students

Current projects

Funded by the Australian Research Council:

(1) Future Fellowship 2012-2016: A new model of human speech production through computational modelling amd human functional brain imaging

(2) 2013-2015 Discovering the developmental trajectory of lexical stress sproduction

Funded by the NHMRC:

(1) 2010-2013 Accurate differetiation of acquired speech and langauge disorders for positive rehabilitation outcomes - exploring (a) objective and automated speech analysis tools for diagnosis of Apraxia of Speech in stroke and (b) the influence of apraxia of speech on treatment outcomes.

(2) 2010-2012 Progressive aphasia and amyloid deposition: A multidisciplinary approach to improving dementia diagnosis - my role is to explore objective and automated speech analysis tools for differential diagnosis among the subtypes of Primary Progressive Aphasia.

Funded by the Qatar National Research Foundation

(3) 2012-2014 Mobile infrastructure and automated tools for the monitoring and treatment of childhood apraxia of speech - a collaboration with engineering and computer science

Associations

Speech Pathology Australia
American Speech Language and Hearing Association

Awards and honours

2012-2016 ARC Future Fellow
2011-2013 Chair, Committee on Evidene Based Practice Guidelines for Acquired Apraxia of Speech (ANCDS)
2008 Editors Award American Journal of Speech Language Pathology
2005 Award for Teaching Excellence
2001 Outstanding Early Career Research, Journal of Communication Disorders
1998 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow
1992, 1996 Graduate and Dissertation Scholarships, Northwestern University

Themes

Communication Sciences and Disorders, E-Health and Health Care Delivery

International links

United States	(Prof Adam Buchwald, New York University) tDCS to promote speech motor learning in individuals with acquired apraxia of speech
United States	(Prof Donald A. Robin, University of New Hampshire) Understanding the nature and treatment of childhood apraxia of speech.
United States	(Prof Frank H. Guenther & Dr Jason A. Tourville, Boston University)) Feedback and feedforward control of speech production
United States	(Prof Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Texas A&M University) Apraxia World: An interactive, technology-based comprehensive tool for remote speech therapy of CAS

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Apathy and social health in neurocognitive disorders	James CARRICK
Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Vocal Tract Analysis	Tharinda Piyadasa MEEGASMULLAGE PIYADASA

Publications

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Book Chapters

El-Wahsh, S., Monroe, P., Kumfor, F., Ballard, K. (2021). Communication interventions for people with dementia and their communication partners. In Lee-Fay Low, Kate Laver (Eds.), Dementia Rehabilitation - Evidence-based Interventions and Clinical Recommendations, (pp. 35-56). United Kingdom: Academic Press. [More Information]
McNeil, M., Ballard, K., Duffy, J., Wambaugh, J. (2016). Apraxia of speech theory, assessment, differential diagnosis, and treatment: past, present, and future. In Pascal van Lieshout, Ben Maassen, Hayo Terband (Eds.), Speech motor control in normal and disordered speech: future developments in theory and methodology, (pp. 195-221). Rockville: ASHA Press.
Ballard, K., McCabe, P. (2014). Developmental motor speech disorders. In Louise Cummings (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Communication Disorders, (pp. 383-399). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Solomon, N., Robin, D., Moon, J., Folkins, J. (2009). Nonspeech assessment of the speech production mechanism. In McNeil MR (Eds.), Clinical Management of Sensorimotor Speech Disorders, (pp. 30-45). New York: Thieme Medical Publishers.

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Journals

Wauters, L., Kohley, L., Murray, L., Rogalski, E., Figeys, M., Milman, L., Henry, M., Croot, K., Dial, H., Duffy, J., Ballard, K., et al (2023). Behavioral Treatment for Speech and Language in Primary Progressive Aphasia and Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech: A Systematic Review. Neuropsychology Review. [More Information]
McLeod, S., Kelly, G., Ahmed, B., Ballard, K. (2023). Equitable access to speech practice for rural Australian children using the SayBananas! mobile game. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 25(3), 388-402. [More Information]
Monroe, P., Halaki, M., Luscombe, G., Kumfor, F., Ballard, K. (2023). Phase I trial of the MuSic to CONnect (MuSiCON) protocol: feasibility and effect of choir participation for individuals with cognitive impairment. Brain Impairment, 24(3), 732-749. [More Information]
Hanley, L., Ballard, K., Dickson, A., Purcell, A. (2023). Speech Intervention for Children With Cleft Palate Using Principles of Motor Learning. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32(1), 169-189. [More Information]
Dyson, B., Hakansson, G., Ballard, K. (2022). A developmental approach to assessing and treating agrammatic aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 31(3), 1188-1204. [More Information]
Nguyen, T., Castro, N., Vitevitch, M., Harding, A., Teng, R., Arciuli, J., Leyton, C., Piguet, O., Ballard, K. (2022). Do age and language impairment affect speed of recognition for words with high and low closeness centrality within the phonological network? International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. [More Information]
King Bamford, C., Masso, S., Baker, E., Ballard, K. (2022). Dynamic Assessment for Children With Communication Disorders: A Systematic Scoping Review and Framework. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 31(4), 1878-1893. [More Information]
Charters, E., Bogaardt, H., Clark, J., Milross, C., Freeman-Sanderson, A., Ballard, K., Britton, R., McCabe, N., Davis, H., Sullivan, T., et al (2022). Functional swallowing outcomes related to radiation exposure to dysphagia and aspiration-related structures in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing definitive and postoperative intensity-modulated radiotherapy. Head and Neck, 44(2), 399-411. [More Information]
Kaspi, A., Hildebrand, M., Jackson, V., Braden, R., van Reyk, O., Howell, T., Debono, S., Lauretta, M., Morison, L., Coleman, M., Ballard, K., et al (2022). Genetic aetiologies for childhood speech disorder: novel pathways co-expressed during brain development. Molecular Psychiatry. [More Information]
Md Nor, A., Masso, S., Ballard, K. (2022). Identifying segmental and prosodic errors associated with the increasing word length effect in acquired apraxia of speech. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 24(3), 294-306. [More Information]
El-Wahsh, S., Balandin, S., Bogaardt, H., Kumfor, F., Ballard, K. (2022). Managing communication changes in persons with multiple sclerosis: Findings from qualitative focus groups. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 57(3), 680-694. [More Information]
El-Wahsh, S., Layfield, C., Bogaardt, H., Kumfor, F., Ballard, K. (2022). Perspectives from the patient: A content analysis of communication changes, impact, and strategies to facilitate communication in multiple sclerosis. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 24(2), 173-189. [More Information]
Charters, E., Bogaardt, H., Freeman-Sanderson, A., Ballard, K., Davies, S., Oates, J., Clark, J. (2022). Swallowing and communication outcomes following primary transoral robotic surgery for advanced or recurrent oropharyngeal cancer: Case series. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 24(4), 407-416. [More Information]
Lo, K., Bricker-Katz (Katz), G., Ballard, K., Piguet, O. (2022). The affective, behavioural, and cognitive reactions to a diagnosis of Primary Progressive Aphasia: A qualitative descriptive study. Dementia, 21(8), 2476-2498. [More Information]
Hair, A., Ballard, K., Markoulli, C., Monroe, P., McKechnie, J., Ahmed, B., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2021). A Longitudinal Evaluation of Tablet-Based Child Speech Therapy with Apraxia World. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 14(1), 1-26. [More Information]
McKechnie, J., Shahin, M., Ahmed, B., McCabe, P., Arciuli, J., Ballard, K. (2021). An automated lexical stress classification tool for assessing dysprosody in childhood apraxia of speech. Brain Sciences, 11(11), 1408. [More Information]
Dehqan, A., Ballard, K. (2021). An evaluation of Short-term Treatment Outcomes of Cricothyroid Visor Maneuver: A Proof-of-Concept Pilot Study. Journal of Voice, 35(2), 3.30E+03-3.30E+09. [More Information]
Landin-Romero, R., Liang, C., Monroe, P., Higashiyama, Y., Leyton, C., Hodges, J., Piguet, O., Ballard, K. (2021). Brain changes underlying progression of speech motor programming impairment. Brain Communications, 3(3). [More Information]
Murray, E., Iuzzini-Seigel, J., Maas, E., Terband, H., Ballard, K. (2021). Differential diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech compared to other speech sound disorders: A systematic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 30(1), 279-300. [More Information]
Charters, E., Bogaardt, H., Freeman-Sanderson, A., Ballard, K., Davies, S., Oates, J., Clark, J. (2021). Early fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallow in transoral robotic surgery: Description of swallow function and recovery in the acute postoperative period for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma. Head and Neck, 43(1), 116-127. [More Information]
Miller, H., Ballard, K., Campbell, J., Smith, M., Plante, A., Aytur, S., Robin, D. (2021). Improvements in Speech of Children with Apraxia: The Efficacy of Treatment for Establishing Motor Program Organization (TEMPOSM). Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 24(7), 494-509. [More Information]
Scholl, D., McCabe, P., Nickels, L., Ballard, K. (2021). Outcomes of semantic feature analysis treatment for aphasia with and without apraxia of speech. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 56(3), 485-500. [More Information]
Bogaardt, H., Alali, D., Ballard, K. (2021). Response to Letter to the Editor Regarding the Article Entitled “Treatment Effects for Dysphagia in Adults with Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review”. Dysphagia, 36(6), 1116-1117. [More Information]
Charters, E., Wu, R., Milross, C., Bogaardt, H., Freeman-Sanderson, A., Ballard, K., Davies, S., Oates, J., Clark, J. (2021). Swallowing and communication outcomes following primary transoral robotic surgery. Head and Neck, 43(7), 2013-2023. [More Information]
El-Wahsh, S., Heard, R., Bogaardt, H., Kumfor, F., Ballard, K. (2021). Variables Associated with Self-reported Language Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis. International Journal of MS Care, 23(2), 85-92. [More Information]
Kearney, E., Nieto-Castañón, A., Weerathunge, H., Falsini, R., Daliri, A., Abur, D., Ballard, K., Chang, S., Chao, S., Heller Murray, E., et al (2020). A Simple 3-Parameter Model for Examining Adaptation in Speech and Voice Production. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2995. [More Information]
El-Wahsh, S., Bogaardt, H., Kumfor, F., Ballard, K. (2020). Development and validation of the communication and language assessment questionnaire for persons with multiple sclerosis (CLAMS). Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 43, 1-9. [More Information]
El-Wahsh, S., Ballard, K., Kumfor, F., Bogaardt, H. (2020). Prevalence of self-reported language impairment in multiple sclerosis and the association with health-related quality of life: An international survey study. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 39, 101896. [More Information]
Ramage, A., Aytur, S., Ballard, K. (2020). Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging connectivity between semantic and phonological regions of interest may inform language targets in Aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(9), 3051-3067. [More Information]
Monroe, P., Halaki, M., Kumfor, F., Ballard, K. (2020). The effects of choral singing on communication impairments in acquired brain injury: A systematic review. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 55(3), 303-319. [More Information]
McKechnie, J., Ahmed, B., Gutierrez-Osuna, R., Murray, E., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2020). The influence of type of feedback during tablet-based delivery of intensive treatment for childhood apraxia of speech. Journal of Communication Disorders, 87, 106026. [More Information]
Whitworth, A., Ballard, K. (2019). 'Joined-up practice': Optimising recovery for people with aphasia and their family and friends. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 21(5), 435-437. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Etter, N., Shen, S., Monroe, P., Tien Tan, C. (2019). Feasibility of Automatic Speech Recognition for Providing Feedback During Tablet-Based Treatment for Apraxia of Speech Plus Aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 28(2), 818-834. [More Information]
Charters, E., Bogaardt, H., Freeman-Sanderson, A., Ballard, K. (2019). Systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of dosimetry to dysphagia and aspiration related structures. Head and Neck, 41(6), 1984-1998. [More Information]
Etchell, A., Civier, O., Ballard, K., Sowman, P. (2018). A systematic literature review of neuroimaging research on developmental stuttering between 1995 and 2016. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 55, 6-45. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Halaki, M., Sowman, P., Kha, A., Daliri, A., Robin, D., Tourville, J., Guenther, F. (2018). An investigation of compensation and adaptation to auditory perturbations in individuals with acquired apraxia of speech. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 1-14. [More Information]
Burrell, J., Ballard, K., Halliday, G., Hodges, J. (2018). Aphasia in progressive supranuclear palsy: As severe as progressive non-fluent aphasia. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 61(2), 705-715. [More Information]
McKechnie, J., Ahmed, B., Gutierrez-Osuna, R., Monroe, P., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2018). Automated speech analysis tools for children's speech production: A systematic literature review. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(6), 583-598. [More Information]
McAllister, T., Ballard, K. (2018). Bringing advanced speech processing technology to the clinical management of speech disorders. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(6), 581-582. [More Information]
Thomas, D., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2018). Combined clinician-parent delivery of rapid syllable transition (ReST) treatment for childhood apraxia of speech. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(7), 683-698. [More Information]
Alali, D., Ballard, K., Vucic, S., Bogaardt, H. (2018). Dysphagia in Multiple Sclerosis: Evaluation and validation of the DYMUS Questionnaire. Dysphagia, 33(3), 273-281. [More Information]
Thomas, D., McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Bricker-Katz, G. (2018). Parent experiences of variations in service delivery of Rapid Syllable Transition (ReST) treatment for childhood apraxia of speech. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 21(6), 391-401. [More Information]
Scholl, D., McCabe, P., Heard, R., Ballard, K. (2018). Segmental and prosodic variability on repeated polysyllabic word production in acquired apraxia of speech plus aphasia. Aphasiology, 32(5), 578-597. [More Information]
Ahmed, B., Monroe, P., Hair, A., Tan, C., Gutierrez-Osuna, R., Ballard, K. (2018). Speech-driven mobile games for speech therapy: User experiences and feasibility. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(6), 644-658. [More Information]
Alali, D., Ballard, K., Bogaardt, H. (2018). The frequency of dysphagia and its impact on adults with multiple sclerosis based on patient-reported questionnaires. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 25, 227-231. [More Information]
Etter, N., Miller, O., Ballard, K. (2017). Clinically available assessment measures for lingual and labial somatosensation in healthy adults: normative data and test reliability. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 26(3), 982-990. [More Information]
Leyton, C., Hodges, J., Piguet, O., Ballard, K. (2017). Common and divergent neural correlates of anomia in amnestic and logopenic presentations of Alzheimer's disease. Cortex, 86, 45-54. [More Information]
Whitworth, A., Ballard, K. (2017). Connecting science and practice: Focus and directions for the next 10 years. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 19(6), 539-540. [More Information]
Arciuli, J., Ballard, K. (2017). Still not adult-like: lexical stress contrastivity in word productions of eight- to eleven-year-olds. Journal of Child Language, 44(5), 1274-1288. [More Information]
Blyth, K., McCabe, P., Madill, C., Ballard, K. (2017). Ultrasound in dysphagia rehabilitation: a novel approach following partial glossectomy. Disability and Rehabilitation, 39(21), 2215-2227. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Azizi, L., Duffy, J., McNeil, M., Halaki, M., O'Dwyer, N., Layfield, C., Scholl, D., Vogel, A., Robin, D. (2016). A predictive model for diagnosing stroke-related apraxia of speech. Neuropsychologia, 81, 129-139. [More Information]
Carrigg, B., Parry, L., Baker, E., Shriberg, L., Ballard, K. (2016). Cognitive, Linguistic, and Motor Abilities in a Multigenerational Family with Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 31, 1006-1025. [More Information]
Leyton, C., Cassidy, B., Villemagne, V., Jones, G., Kwok, J., Rowe, C., Ballard, K., Piquet, O., Hodges, J. (2016). Divergent Network Patterns of Amyloid-b Deposition in Logopenic and Amnestic Alzheimer's Disease Presentations. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 1(1), 24-31. [More Information]
Leyton, C., Ballard, K. (2016). Primary progressive aphasia: conceptual evolution and challenges. Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics, 5, 9-18. [More Information]
Kamminga, J., Leslie, F., Hsieh, S., Caga, J., Mioshi, E., Hornberger, M., Ballard, K., Kiernan, M., Hodges, J., Burrell, J. (2016). Syntactic comprehension deficits across the FTD-ALS continuum. Neurobiology of Aging, 41, 11-18. [More Information]
Thomas, D., McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Lincoln, M. (2016). Telehealth delivery of Rapid Syllable Transitions (ReST) treatment for Childhood Apraxia of Speech. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 51(6), 654-671. [More Information]
Alali, D., Ballard, K., Bogaardt, H. (2016). Treatment Effects for Dysphagia in Adults with Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review. Dysphagia, 31(5), 610-618. [More Information]
Blyth, K., McCabe, P., Madill, C., Ballard, K. (2016). Ultrasound visual feedback in articulation therapy following partial glossectomy. Journal of Communication Disorders, 61, 1-15. [More Information]
Taswell, C., Villemagne, V., Yates, P., Shimada, H., Leyton, C., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Burrell, J., Hodges, J., Rowe, C. (2015). 18F-FDG PET Improves Diagnosis in Patients with Focal-Onset Dementias. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 56(10), 1547-1553. [More Information]
Murray, E., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2015). A randomized controlled trial for children with childhood apraxia of speech comparing rapid syllable transition treatment and the nuffield dyspraxia programme-third edition. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(3), 669-686. [More Information]
New, A., Robin, D., Parkinson, A., Duffy, J., McNeil, M., Piguet, O., Hornberger, M., Price, C., Eickhoff, S., Ballard, K. (2015). Altered resting-state network connectivity in stroke patients with and without apraxia of speech. NeuroImage: Clinical, 8, 429-439. [More Information]
Parnandi, A., Karappa, V., Lan, T., Shahin, M., McKechnie, J., Ballard, K., Ahmed, B., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2015). Development of a Remote Therapy Tool for Childhood Apraxia of Speech. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 7(3), 1-23. [More Information]
Murray, E., McCabe, P., Heard, R., Ballard, K. (2015). Differential Diagnosis of Children with Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(1), 43-60. [More Information]
Leyton, C., Hodges, J., McLean, C., Kril, J., Piguet, O., Ballard, K. (2015). Is the logopenic-variant of primary progressive aphasia a unitary disorder? Cortex, 67, 122-133. [More Information]
Carrigg, B., Baker, E., Parry, L., Ballard, K. (2015). Persistent Speech Sound Disorder in a 22-Year-Old Male: Communication, Educational, Socio-Emotional, and Vocational Outcomes. Perspectives on School-Based Issues, 16(2), 37-49. [More Information]
Blyth, K., McCabe, P., Madill, C., Ballard, K. (2015). Speech and swallow rehabilitation following partial glossectomy: A systematic review. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 17(4), 401-410. [More Information]
Shahin, M., Ahmed, B., Parnandi, A., Karappa, V., McKechnie, J., Ballard, K., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2015). Tabby Talks: An automated tool for the assessment of childhood apraxia of speech. Speech Communication, 70, 49-64. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Wambaugh, J., Duffy, J., Layfield, C., Maas, E., Mauszycki, S., McNeil, M. (2015). Treatment for Acquired Apraxia of Speech: A Systematic Review of Intervention Research Between 2004 and 2012. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 24(2), 316-337. [More Information]
Murray, E., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2014). A Systematic Review of Treatment Outcomes for Children With Childhood Apraxia of Speech. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 23(3), 486-504. [More Information]
Arciuli, J., Simpson, B., Vogel, A., Ballard, K. (2014). Acoustic Changes in the Production of Lexical Stress during Lombard Speech. Language And Speech, 57(2), 149-162. [More Information]
Vergis, M., Ballard, K., Duffy, J., McNeil, M., Scholl, D., Layfield, C. (2014). An acoustic measure of lexical stress differentiates aphasia and aphasia plus apraxia of speech after stroke. Aphasiology, 28(5), 554-575. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Tourville, J., Robin, D. (2014). Behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging studies of acquired apraxia of speech. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 1-9. [More Information]
Blyth, K., McCabe, P., Heard, R., Clark, J., Madill, C., Ballard, K. (2014). Cancers of the tongue and floor of mouth: five-year file audit within the acute phase. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 23(4), 668-678. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Savage, S., Leyton, C., Vogel, A., Hornberger, M., Hodges, J. (2014). Logopenic and nonfluent variants of primary progressive aphasia are differentiated by acoustic measures of speech production. PloS One, 9(2), 1-14. [More Information]
McCabe, P., MacDonald-D'Silva, A., van Rees, L., Ballard, K., Arciuli, J. (2014). Orthographically sensitive treatment for dysprosody in children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech using ReST intervention. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 17(2), 137-146. [More Information]
Leyton, C., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Hodges, J. (2014). Phonologic errors as a clinical marker of the logopenic variant of PPA. Neurology, 82(18), 1620-1627. [More Information]
Maas, E., Gutierrez, K., Ballard, K. (2014). Phonological encoding in apraxia of speech and aphasia. Aphasiology, 28(1), 25-48. [More Information]
Thomas, D., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2014). Rapid Syllable Transitions (ReST) treatment for Childhood Apraxia of Speech: The effect of lower dose-Frequency. Journal of Communication Disorders, 51, 29-42. [More Information]
Leyton, C., Savage, S., Irish, M., Schubert, S., Piguet, O., Ballard, K., Hodges, J. (2014). Verbal Repetition in Primary Progressive Aphasia and Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 41(2), 575-585. [More Information]
Savage, S., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Hodges, J. (2013). Bringing words back to mind - Improving word production in semantic dementia. Cortex, 49(7), 1823-1832. [More Information]
Courson, M., Ballard, K., Canault, M., Layfield, C., Scholl, D., Gentil, C. (2013). Lexical stress production in healthy and apraxic speakers of Australian English or French. Journal Of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 20(4), 47-52.
Ballard, K. (2013). Shaping questions for the next decade: Listening to clients, parents, and clinicians. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 15(3), 221-222. [More Information]
Murray, E., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2012). A comparison of two treatments for childhood apraxia of speech: methods and treatment protocol for a parallel group randomised control trial. BMC Pediatrics, 12(3), 1-9. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Smith, H., Paramatmuni, D., McCabe, P., Theodoros, D., Murdoch, B. (2012). Amount of Kinematic Feedback Affects Learning of Speech Motor Skills. Motor Control, 16(1), 106-119. [More Information]
Croot, K., Ballard, K., Leyton, C., Hodges, J. (2012). Apraxia of Speech and Phonological Errors in the Diagnosis of Nonfluent/Agrammatic and Logopenic Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55(5), S1562-S1572. [More Information]
Young, S., Purcell, A., Ballard, K., Rickard Liow, S., Da Silva Ramos, S., Heard, R. (2012). Bilingual children with nonsyndromic cleft lip and/or palate: Language and memory skills. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55(5), 1314-1328. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Djaja, D., Arciuli, J., James, D., Van Doorn, J. (2012). Developmental Trajectory for Production of Prosody: Lexical Stress Contrastivity in Children Ages 3 to 7 Years and in Adults. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55(6), 1822-1835. [More Information]
Taylor, C., Aird, V., Power, E., Davies, E., Madelaine, C., McCarry, A., Ballard, K. (2012). Objective measurement of dysarthric speech following traumatic brain injury: Clinical application of acoustic analysis. Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech Language Pathology, 14(3), 129-135.
Ruggero, L., McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Munro, N. (2012). Paediatric Speech-Language Pathology Service Delivery: An Exploratory Survey of Australian Parents. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 14(4), 338-350. [More Information]
van Rees, L., Ballard, K., McCabe, P., MacDonald-D'Silva, A., Arciuli, J. (2012). Training production of lexical stress in typically developing children with orthographically biased stimuli and principles of motor learning. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 21(3), 197-206. [More Information]
Young, S., Ballard, K., Heard, R., Purcell, A. (2011). Communication and Cognition Profiles in Parents of Children with Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip and/or Palate. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 33(6), 658-671. [More Information]
Leyton, C., Villemagne, V., Savage, S., Pike, K., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Burrell, J., Rowe, C., Hodges, J. (2011). Subtypes of progressive aphasia: Application of the international consensus criteria and validation using b-amyloid imaging. Brain, 134(10), 3030-3043. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Robin, D., McCabe, P., McDonald, J. (2010). A Treatment for Dysprosody in Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 53(5), 1227-1245. [More Information]
Young, S., Purcell, A., Ballard, K. (2010). Expressive language skills in Chinese Singaporean preschoolers with nonsyndromic cleft lip and/or palate. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 74(5), 456-464. [More Information]
de Miranda Marzullo, A., Neto, O., Ballard, K., Robin, D., Chaitow, L., Christou, E. (2010). Neural control of the lips differs for young and older adults following a perturbation. Experimental Brain Research, 206(3), 319-327. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Varley, R., Kendall, D. (2010). Promising Approaches to Treatment of Apraxia of Speech: Preliminary Evidence and Directions for the Future. Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders, 20, 87-93. [More Information]
Tomblin, J., O'Brien, M., Shriberg, L., Williams, C., Murray, J., Patil, S., Bjork, J., Anderson, S., Ballard, K. (2009). Language Features in a Mother and Daughter of a Chromosome 7;13 Translocation Involving FOXP2. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 52(5), 1157-1174. [More Information]
Austermann Hula, S., Robin, D., Maas, E., Ballard, K., Schmidt, R. (2008). Effects of feedback frequency and timing on acquisition, retention and transfer of speech skills in acquired apraxia of speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 51(5), 1088-1113. [More Information]
Maas, E., Robin, D., Wright, D., Ballard, K. (2008). Motor programming in apraxia of speech. Brain and Language, 106(2), 107-118. [More Information]
Maas, E., Robin, D., Austermann Hula, S., Freedman, S., Wulf, G., Ballard, K., Schmidt, R. (2008). Principles of Motor Learning in Treatment of Motor Speech Disorders. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 17(3), 277-298. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Robin, D. (2007). Influence of continual biofeedback on jaw pursuit-tracking in healthy adults and in adults with apraxia plus aphasia. Journal of Motor Behavior, 39(1), 19-28. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Maas, E., Robin, D. (2007). Treating control of voicing in apraxia of speech with variable practice. Aphasiology, 21(12), 1195-1217. [More Information]
Shriberg, L., Ballard, K., Tomblin, J., Duffy, J., O'dell, K., Williams, C. (2006). Speech, Prosody, and Voice Characteristics of a Mother and Daughter With a 7;13 Translocation Affecting FOXP2. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49(3), 500-525. [More Information]
Murray, L., Ballard, K., Karcher, L. (2004). Linguistic Specific Treatment: Just for Broca's aphasia? Aphasiology, 18(9), 785-809. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Robin, D., Folkins, J. (2003). An integrative model of speech motor control: A response to Ziegler. Aphasiology, 17(1), 37-48. [More Information]
Dean, M., Ballard, K., Glass, A., Ballard, J. (2003). Influence of Two Wolbachia Strains on Population Structure of East African Drosophila simulans. Genetics, 165, 1959-1969.

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Hair, A., Zhao, G., Ahmed, B., Ballard, K., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2021). Assessing posterior-based mispronunciation detection on field-collected recordings from child speech therapy sessions. 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021, Brno: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). [More Information]
Ahmed, B., Ballard, K., Burnham, D., Sirojan, T., Mehmood, H., Estival, D., Baker, E., Cox, F., Arciuli, J., Benders, T., et al (2021). AusKidTalk: An auditory-visual corpus of 3-to 12-year-old Australian children's speech. 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021, Brno: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). [More Information]
Hair, A., Markoulli, C., Monroe, P., McKechnie, J., Ballard, K., Ahmed, B., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2020). Preliminary results from a longitudinal study of a tablet-based speech therapy game. 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2020), Honolulu: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Hair, A., Ballard, K., Ahmed, B., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2019). Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition for Child Speech Therapy Applications. ASSETS 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
You, Y., Ahmed, B., Barr, P., Ballard, K., Valenzuela, M. (2019). Predicting Dementia Risk Using Paralinguistic and Memory Test Features with Machine Learning Models. 2019 IEEE Healthcare Innovations and Point of Care Technologies (HI-POCT 2019), Bethesda: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
Shahin, M., Ahmed, B., Ji, J., Ballard, K. (2018). Anomaly detection approach for pronunciation verification of disordered speech using speech attribute features. 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2018), Hyderabad: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). [More Information]
Hair, A., Monroe, P., Ahmed, B., Ballard, K., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2018). Apraxia world: A speech therapy game for children with speech sound disorders. 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2018), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Carrigg, B., Parry, L., Baker, E., Shriberg, L., Ballard, K. (2016). Persistent Speech Sound Disorder Outcomes in a Multigenerational Family. 2016 ASHA Convention (American Speech Hearing Association), Philadelphia, PA, USA: American Speech Hearing Association.
Leyton, C., Cassidy, B., Jones, G., Villemagne, V., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Hodges, J. (2015). Divergent complex network patterns of amyloid-b deposition between language and typical alzheimer's presentations. World Congress of Neurology, United Kingdom: Journal of the Neurological Sciences. [More Information]
Leyton, C., Cassidy, B., Villemagne, V., Jones, G., Kwok, J., Rowe, C., Ballard, K. (2015). Divergent network patterns of Amyloid-B deposition in language and amnestic AD presentations. Inter-University Neuroscience & Mental Health Conference, Sydney: N/A.
Leyton, C., Cassidy, B., Villemagne, V., Jones, G., Rowe, C., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Hodges, J. (2015). Divergent network patterns of Amyloid-B deposition in language and typical Alzheimer's disease presentations. Asia & Pacific FTD & MND Meeting, Sydney: N/A.
McKechnie, J., Ballard, K., McCabe, P., Gutierrez-Osuna, R., Karappa, V., Parnandi, A., Shahin, M., Murray, E., Ahmed, B. (2015). Exploring the use of mobile technology for delivery of intensive speech therapy in children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference.
McKechnie, J., Ballard, K., McCabe, P., Gutierrez-Osuna, R., Karappa, V., Parnandi, A., Shahin, M., Murray, E., Ahmed, B. (2015). Tablet-based delivery of intensive speech therapy in children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech â€“ In-home tablet trial phase. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference.
Blyth, K., McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Madill, C., Clark, J. (2014). "Can you see what I see?" Ultrasound biofeedback following tongue cancer surgery. Speech Pathology Australia: 2014 National Conference.
Shahin, M., Ahmed, B., Ballard, K. (2014). Classification of lexical stress patterns using deep neural network architecture. 2014 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2014), Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
Leyton, C., Piguet, O., Lam, B., Hodges, J., Ballard, K. (2014). Dissecting naming impairments in the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia. The 9th International Conference on Frontotemporal Dementias, United Kingdom.
Taswell, C., Villemagne, C., Yates, P., Shimada, H., Leyton, C., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Burrell, J., Hodges, J., Rowe, C. (2014). FDG-PET improves diagnosis in patients presenting with focal onset variant of Alzheimerâ€™s disease. Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting.
Lan,, T., Aryal,, S., Ahmed,, B., Ballard, K., Gutierez-Osuna,, R. (2014). Flappy voice: An interactive game for childhood apraxia of speech therapy. 1st ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY 2014), : Springer Verlag.
Tan,, C., Johnston,, A., Bluff,, A., Ferguson,, S., Ballard, K. (2014). Retrogaming as visual feedback for speech therapy. SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications, SA 2014, : Springer Verlag.
Tan,, C., Johnston,, A., Bluff,, A., Ferguson,, S., Ballard, K. (2014). Speech invaders & Yak-man: Retrogames for speech therapy. SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications, SA 2014, : Springer Verlag.
McKechnie, J., Ballard, K., McCabe, P., Gutierrez-Osuna, R., Karappa, V., Parnandi, A., Shahin, M., Murray, E., Ahmed, B. (2014). Tablet-based delivery of intensive speech therapy in children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech - Pilot Phase. Speech Pathology Australia: 2014 National Conference.
Blyth, K., McCabe, P., Madill, C., Clarke, J., Ballard, K. (2014). What are the outcomes? Use of tongue ultrasound as visual feedback following partial glossectomy. The Tri-Society Head & Neck Oncology Meeting.
Leyton, C., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Hodges, J. (2013). A specific clinical marker of logopenic aphasia. 41st Annual Tow Research Meeting, Sydney, Australia.
Parnandi, A., Karappa, V., Son, Y., Shahin, M., McKechnie, J., Ballard, K., Ahmed, B., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2013). Architecture of an automated therapy tool for childhood apraxia of speech. 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2013), New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Arciuli, J., Nash, R., Henderson-Faranda, N., Ballard, K. (2013). Do acoustic measures of stress contrastivity reveal a link between expressive prosody and reading ability in typically developing children? Prosody in reading symposium. Twentieth Annual Meeting Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Hong Kong, China.
Ballard, K., Leyton, C., Vogel, A., Savage, S., Hodges, J. (2013). Logopenic & nonfluent primary progressive aphasia are reliably differentiated by acoustic measures of speech production. 2013 ASHA Convention, Chicago, USA.
Leyton, C., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Hodges, J. (2013). Phonological errors as a specific clinical marker of logopenic aphasia. CCD Annual Workshop. Macquarie University.
Tan, C., Johnston, A., Ballard, K., Ferguson, S., Perera-Schulz, D. (2013). sPeAK-MAN: Towards popular gameplay for speech therapy. 9th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE 2013), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Scholl, D., Ballard, K., McCabe, P., Nickels, L. (2013). The outcome of semantic feature analysis treatment in aphasia with and without apraxia of speech. 2013 ASHA Convention, Chicago, USA.
Shahin, M., Ahmed, B., Ballard, K. (2012). Automatic classification of unequal lexical stress patterns using machine learning algorithms. IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology 2012, Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
Scholl, D., Ballard, K. (2012). Comparison of perceptual and acoustic analysis of prosodic features in aphasia with and without apraxia of speech. 2012 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Hobart.
Ballard, K., Djaja, D., Arciuli, J., James, D., Van Doorn, J. (2012). Developmental Trajectory for Production of Prosody: Lexical Stress Contrastivity in Children 3 to 7 Years and Adults. 16th Biennial Conference on Motor Speech, Santa Rosa, USA.
Murray, E., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2012). Diagnosing Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS): What do kids with and without CAS look like? 2012 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Hobart.
Murray, E., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2012). Differential diagnosis of 56 children with suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Motor Speech Conference.
Murray, E., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2012). The first randomised control trial for Childhood Apraxia of Speech (ReST vs Nuffield Dyspraxia Program-3). 2012 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Hobart.
Blyth, K., McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Madill, C., Clark, J. (2012). Tongue and floor of mouth cancer surgery: 5 year file audit of treatment, rehabilitation and functional outcomes. Australia and New Zealand Head and Neck Cancer Society Annual Scientific Meeting.
Ferguson, S., Johnston, A., Ballard, K., Tan, C., Perera-Schulz, D. (2012). Visual feedback of acoustic data for speech therapy: Model and design parameters. 7th Audio Mostly Conference: A Conference on Interaction with Sound, New York, New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Leyton, C., Savage, S., Piguet, O., Ballard, K., Pike, K., Villemagne, V., Jones, G., Rowe, C., Burrell, J., Hodges, J. (2010). May Primary Progressive Aphasia be an atypical presentation of Alzheimerâ€™s disease? Brain Science UNSW Symposium. The Developing Brain â€“from Womb to Tomb.
Pike, K., Villemagne, V., Piguet, O., Ballard, K., Leyton, C., Jones, G., Rowe, C., Hodges, J. (2010). When is progressive aphasia due to Alzheimerâ€™s disease? A PiB-PET study. International Conference on Alzheimerâ€™s Disease.
Miles, R., Ballard, K., Taylor, C., McMahan, A., Power, E. (2009). A Controlled Clinical Application of Motor Learning Principles with Apraxia of Speech. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference 2009, Adelaide: Speech Pathology Australia.
Ballard, K., Robin, D., McCabe, P., McDonald, J. (2009). Treating Dysprosody in Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference 2009, Adelaide: Speech Pathology Australia.
McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Robin, D. (2008). An innovative syllable transition treatment Trial for childhood apraxia of speech. 14th Biennial Conference on Motor Speech 2008, United States: Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital.
Staples, T., McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Robin, D. (2008). Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Treatment Outcomes at 6 months of an Intervention Incorporating Principles of Motor Learning. Joint New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists Association / Speech Pathology Australia Conference 2008, Australia: Speech Pathology Australia.
Madill, C., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2008). Principles of Motor Learning and Voice Training. ARC Network in Human Communication Science Symposium HCSNet Summerfest 2008, Australia: Human Communication Science Network.

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McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Morgan, A., Purcell, A., Thomas, D., McKechnie, J., Lim, J. (2014). Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Prevalence, prognosis and services.
McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Munro, N. (2014). Parental concerns about the lack of services across Australia.
McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Morgan, A., Murray, E., Purcell, A., Thomas, D., McKechnie, J., Lim, J. (2013). Inquiry into the prevalence of different types of speech, language and communication disorders and speech pathology services in Australia.

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Wauters, L., Kohley, L., Murray, L., Rogalski, E., Figeys, M., Milman, L., Henry, M., Croot, K., Dial, H., Duffy, J., Ballard, K., et al (2023). Behavioral Treatment for Speech and Language in Primary Progressive Aphasia and Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech: A Systematic Review. Neuropsychology Review. [More Information]
McLeod, S., Kelly, G., Ahmed, B., Ballard, K. (2023). Equitable access to speech practice for rural Australian children using the SayBananas! mobile game. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 25(3), 388-402. [More Information]
Monroe, P., Halaki, M., Luscombe, G., Kumfor, F., Ballard, K. (2023). Phase I trial of the MuSic to CONnect (MuSiCON) protocol: feasibility and effect of choir participation for individuals with cognitive impairment. Brain Impairment, 24(3), 732-749. [More Information]
Hanley, L., Ballard, K., Dickson, A., Purcell, A. (2023). Speech Intervention for Children With Cleft Palate Using Principles of Motor Learning. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32(1), 169-189. [More Information]

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2022

Dyson, B., Hakansson, G., Ballard, K. (2022). A developmental approach to assessing and treating agrammatic aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 31(3), 1188-1204. [More Information]
Nguyen, T., Castro, N., Vitevitch, M., Harding, A., Teng, R., Arciuli, J., Leyton, C., Piguet, O., Ballard, K. (2022). Do age and language impairment affect speed of recognition for words with high and low closeness centrality within the phonological network? International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. [More Information]
King Bamford, C., Masso, S., Baker, E., Ballard, K. (2022). Dynamic Assessment for Children With Communication Disorders: A Systematic Scoping Review and Framework. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 31(4), 1878-1893. [More Information]
Charters, E., Bogaardt, H., Clark, J., Milross, C., Freeman-Sanderson, A., Ballard, K., Britton, R., McCabe, N., Davis, H., Sullivan, T., et al (2022). Functional swallowing outcomes related to radiation exposure to dysphagia and aspiration-related structures in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing definitive and postoperative intensity-modulated radiotherapy. Head and Neck, 44(2), 399-411. [More Information]
Kaspi, A., Hildebrand, M., Jackson, V., Braden, R., van Reyk, O., Howell, T., Debono, S., Lauretta, M., Morison, L., Coleman, M., Ballard, K., et al (2022). Genetic aetiologies for childhood speech disorder: novel pathways co-expressed during brain development. Molecular Psychiatry. [More Information]
Md Nor, A., Masso, S., Ballard, K. (2022). Identifying segmental and prosodic errors associated with the increasing word length effect in acquired apraxia of speech. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 24(3), 294-306. [More Information]
El-Wahsh, S., Balandin, S., Bogaardt, H., Kumfor, F., Ballard, K. (2022). Managing communication changes in persons with multiple sclerosis: Findings from qualitative focus groups. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 57(3), 680-694. [More Information]
El-Wahsh, S., Layfield, C., Bogaardt, H., Kumfor, F., Ballard, K. (2022). Perspectives from the patient: A content analysis of communication changes, impact, and strategies to facilitate communication in multiple sclerosis. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 24(2), 173-189. [More Information]
Charters, E., Bogaardt, H., Freeman-Sanderson, A., Ballard, K., Davies, S., Oates, J., Clark, J. (2022). Swallowing and communication outcomes following primary transoral robotic surgery for advanced or recurrent oropharyngeal cancer: Case series. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 24(4), 407-416. [More Information]
Lo, K., Bricker-Katz (Katz), G., Ballard, K., Piguet, O. (2022). The affective, behavioural, and cognitive reactions to a diagnosis of Primary Progressive Aphasia: A qualitative descriptive study. Dementia, 21(8), 2476-2498. [More Information]

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2021

Hair, A., Ballard, K., Markoulli, C., Monroe, P., McKechnie, J., Ahmed, B., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2021). A Longitudinal Evaluation of Tablet-Based Child Speech Therapy with Apraxia World. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 14(1), 1-26. [More Information]
McKechnie, J., Shahin, M., Ahmed, B., McCabe, P., Arciuli, J., Ballard, K. (2021). An automated lexical stress classification tool for assessing dysprosody in childhood apraxia of speech. Brain Sciences, 11(11), 1408. [More Information]
Dehqan, A., Ballard, K. (2021). An evaluation of Short-term Treatment Outcomes of Cricothyroid Visor Maneuver: A Proof-of-Concept Pilot Study. Journal of Voice, 35(2), 3.30E+03-3.30E+09. [More Information]
Hair, A., Zhao, G., Ahmed, B., Ballard, K., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2021). Assessing posterior-based mispronunciation detection on field-collected recordings from child speech therapy sessions. 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021, Brno: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). [More Information]
Ahmed, B., Ballard, K., Burnham, D., Sirojan, T., Mehmood, H., Estival, D., Baker, E., Cox, F., Arciuli, J., Benders, T., et al (2021). AusKidTalk: An auditory-visual corpus of 3-to 12-year-old Australian children's speech. 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021, Brno: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). [More Information]
Landin-Romero, R., Liang, C., Monroe, P., Higashiyama, Y., Leyton, C., Hodges, J., Piguet, O., Ballard, K. (2021). Brain changes underlying progression of speech motor programming impairment. Brain Communications, 3(3). [More Information]
El-Wahsh, S., Monroe, P., Kumfor, F., Ballard, K. (2021). Communication interventions for people with dementia and their communication partners. In Lee-Fay Low, Kate Laver (Eds.), Dementia Rehabilitation - Evidence-based Interventions and Clinical Recommendations, (pp. 35-56). United Kingdom: Academic Press. [More Information]
Murray, E., Iuzzini-Seigel, J., Maas, E., Terband, H., Ballard, K. (2021). Differential diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech compared to other speech sound disorders: A systematic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 30(1), 279-300. [More Information]
Charters, E., Bogaardt, H., Freeman-Sanderson, A., Ballard, K., Davies, S., Oates, J., Clark, J. (2021). Early fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallow in transoral robotic surgery: Description of swallow function and recovery in the acute postoperative period for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma. Head and Neck, 43(1), 116-127. [More Information]
Miller, H., Ballard, K., Campbell, J., Smith, M., Plante, A., Aytur, S., Robin, D. (2021). Improvements in Speech of Children with Apraxia: The Efficacy of Treatment for Establishing Motor Program Organization (TEMPOSM). Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 24(7), 494-509. [More Information]
Scholl, D., McCabe, P., Nickels, L., Ballard, K. (2021). Outcomes of semantic feature analysis treatment for aphasia with and without apraxia of speech. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 56(3), 485-500. [More Information]
Bogaardt, H., Alali, D., Ballard, K. (2021). Response to Letter to the Editor Regarding the Article Entitled “Treatment Effects for Dysphagia in Adults with Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review”. Dysphagia, 36(6), 1116-1117. [More Information]
Charters, E., Wu, R., Milross, C., Bogaardt, H., Freeman-Sanderson, A., Ballard, K., Davies, S., Oates, J., Clark, J. (2021). Swallowing and communication outcomes following primary transoral robotic surgery. Head and Neck, 43(7), 2013-2023. [More Information]
El-Wahsh, S., Heard, R., Bogaardt, H., Kumfor, F., Ballard, K. (2021). Variables Associated with Self-reported Language Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis. International Journal of MS Care, 23(2), 85-92. [More Information]

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2020

Kearney, E., Nieto-Castañón, A., Weerathunge, H., Falsini, R., Daliri, A., Abur, D., Ballard, K., Chang, S., Chao, S., Heller Murray, E., et al (2020). A Simple 3-Parameter Model for Examining Adaptation in Speech and Voice Production. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2995. [More Information]
El-Wahsh, S., Bogaardt, H., Kumfor, F., Ballard, K. (2020). Development and validation of the communication and language assessment questionnaire for persons with multiple sclerosis (CLAMS). Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 43, 1-9. [More Information]
Hair, A., Markoulli, C., Monroe, P., McKechnie, J., Ballard, K., Ahmed, B., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2020). Preliminary results from a longitudinal study of a tablet-based speech therapy game. 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2020), Honolulu: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
El-Wahsh, S., Ballard, K., Kumfor, F., Bogaardt, H. (2020). Prevalence of self-reported language impairment in multiple sclerosis and the association with health-related quality of life: An international survey study. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 39, 101896. [More Information]
Ramage, A., Aytur, S., Ballard, K. (2020). Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging connectivity between semantic and phonological regions of interest may inform language targets in Aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(9), 3051-3067. [More Information]
Monroe, P., Halaki, M., Kumfor, F., Ballard, K. (2020). The effects of choral singing on communication impairments in acquired brain injury: A systematic review. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 55(3), 303-319. [More Information]
McKechnie, J., Ahmed, B., Gutierrez-Osuna, R., Murray, E., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2020). The influence of type of feedback during tablet-based delivery of intensive treatment for childhood apraxia of speech. Journal of Communication Disorders, 87, 106026. [More Information]

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2019

Whitworth, A., Ballard, K. (2019). 'Joined-up practice': Optimising recovery for people with aphasia and their family and friends. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 21(5), 435-437. [More Information]
Hair, A., Ballard, K., Ahmed, B., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2019). Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition for Child Speech Therapy Applications. ASSETS 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Ballard, K., Etter, N., Shen, S., Monroe, P., Tien Tan, C. (2019). Feasibility of Automatic Speech Recognition for Providing Feedback During Tablet-Based Treatment for Apraxia of Speech Plus Aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 28(2), 818-834. [More Information]
You, Y., Ahmed, B., Barr, P., Ballard, K., Valenzuela, M. (2019). Predicting Dementia Risk Using Paralinguistic and Memory Test Features with Machine Learning Models. 2019 IEEE Healthcare Innovations and Point of Care Technologies (HI-POCT 2019), Bethesda: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
Charters, E., Bogaardt, H., Freeman-Sanderson, A., Ballard, K. (2019). Systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of dosimetry to dysphagia and aspiration related structures. Head and Neck, 41(6), 1984-1998. [More Information]

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2018

Etchell, A., Civier, O., Ballard, K., Sowman, P. (2018). A systematic literature review of neuroimaging research on developmental stuttering between 1995 and 2016. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 55, 6-45. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Halaki, M., Sowman, P., Kha, A., Daliri, A., Robin, D., Tourville, J., Guenther, F. (2018). An investigation of compensation and adaptation to auditory perturbations in individuals with acquired apraxia of speech. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 1-14. [More Information]
Shahin, M., Ahmed, B., Ji, J., Ballard, K. (2018). Anomaly detection approach for pronunciation verification of disordered speech using speech attribute features. 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2018), Hyderabad: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). [More Information]
Burrell, J., Ballard, K., Halliday, G., Hodges, J. (2018). Aphasia in progressive supranuclear palsy: As severe as progressive non-fluent aphasia. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 61(2), 705-715. [More Information]
Hair, A., Monroe, P., Ahmed, B., Ballard, K., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2018). Apraxia world: A speech therapy game for children with speech sound disorders. 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2018), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
McKechnie, J., Ahmed, B., Gutierrez-Osuna, R., Monroe, P., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2018). Automated speech analysis tools for children's speech production: A systematic literature review. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(6), 583-598. [More Information]
McAllister, T., Ballard, K. (2018). Bringing advanced speech processing technology to the clinical management of speech disorders. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(6), 581-582. [More Information]
Thomas, D., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2018). Combined clinician-parent delivery of rapid syllable transition (ReST) treatment for childhood apraxia of speech. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(7), 683-698. [More Information]
Alali, D., Ballard, K., Vucic, S., Bogaardt, H. (2018). Dysphagia in Multiple Sclerosis: Evaluation and validation of the DYMUS Questionnaire. Dysphagia, 33(3), 273-281. [More Information]
Thomas, D., McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Bricker-Katz, G. (2018). Parent experiences of variations in service delivery of Rapid Syllable Transition (ReST) treatment for childhood apraxia of speech. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 21(6), 391-401. [More Information]
Scholl, D., McCabe, P., Heard, R., Ballard, K. (2018). Segmental and prosodic variability on repeated polysyllabic word production in acquired apraxia of speech plus aphasia. Aphasiology, 32(5), 578-597. [More Information]
Ahmed, B., Monroe, P., Hair, A., Tan, C., Gutierrez-Osuna, R., Ballard, K. (2018). Speech-driven mobile games for speech therapy: User experiences and feasibility. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(6), 644-658. [More Information]
Alali, D., Ballard, K., Bogaardt, H. (2018). The frequency of dysphagia and its impact on adults with multiple sclerosis based on patient-reported questionnaires. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 25, 227-231. [More Information]

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2017

Etter, N., Miller, O., Ballard, K. (2017). Clinically available assessment measures for lingual and labial somatosensation in healthy adults: normative data and test reliability. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 26(3), 982-990. [More Information]
Leyton, C., Hodges, J., Piguet, O., Ballard, K. (2017). Common and divergent neural correlates of anomia in amnestic and logopenic presentations of Alzheimer's disease. Cortex, 86, 45-54. [More Information]
Whitworth, A., Ballard, K. (2017). Connecting science and practice: Focus and directions for the next 10 years. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 19(6), 539-540. [More Information]
Arciuli, J., Ballard, K. (2017). Still not adult-like: lexical stress contrastivity in word productions of eight- to eleven-year-olds. Journal of Child Language, 44(5), 1274-1288. [More Information]
Blyth, K., McCabe, P., Madill, C., Ballard, K. (2017). Ultrasound in dysphagia rehabilitation: a novel approach following partial glossectomy. Disability and Rehabilitation, 39(21), 2215-2227. [More Information]

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2016

Ballard, K., Azizi, L., Duffy, J., McNeil, M., Halaki, M., O'Dwyer, N., Layfield, C., Scholl, D., Vogel, A., Robin, D. (2016). A predictive model for diagnosing stroke-related apraxia of speech. Neuropsychologia, 81, 129-139. [More Information]
McNeil, M., Ballard, K., Duffy, J., Wambaugh, J. (2016). Apraxia of speech theory, assessment, differential diagnosis, and treatment: past, present, and future. In Pascal van Lieshout, Ben Maassen, Hayo Terband (Eds.), Speech motor control in normal and disordered speech: future developments in theory and methodology, (pp. 195-221). Rockville: ASHA Press.
Carrigg, B., Parry, L., Baker, E., Shriberg, L., Ballard, K. (2016). Cognitive, Linguistic, and Motor Abilities in a Multigenerational Family with Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 31, 1006-1025. [More Information]
Leyton, C., Cassidy, B., Villemagne, V., Jones, G., Kwok, J., Rowe, C., Ballard, K., Piquet, O., Hodges, J. (2016). Divergent Network Patterns of Amyloid-b Deposition in Logopenic and Amnestic Alzheimer's Disease Presentations. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 1(1), 24-31. [More Information]
Carrigg, B., Parry, L., Baker, E., Shriberg, L., Ballard, K. (2016). Persistent Speech Sound Disorder Outcomes in a Multigenerational Family. 2016 ASHA Convention (American Speech Hearing Association), Philadelphia, PA, USA: American Speech Hearing Association.
Leyton, C., Ballard, K. (2016). Primary progressive aphasia: conceptual evolution and challenges. Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics, 5, 9-18. [More Information]
Kamminga, J., Leslie, F., Hsieh, S., Caga, J., Mioshi, E., Hornberger, M., Ballard, K., Kiernan, M., Hodges, J., Burrell, J. (2016). Syntactic comprehension deficits across the FTD-ALS continuum. Neurobiology of Aging, 41, 11-18. [More Information]
Thomas, D., McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Lincoln, M. (2016). Telehealth delivery of Rapid Syllable Transitions (ReST) treatment for Childhood Apraxia of Speech. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 51(6), 654-671. [More Information]
Alali, D., Ballard, K., Bogaardt, H. (2016). Treatment Effects for Dysphagia in Adults with Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review. Dysphagia, 31(5), 610-618. [More Information]
Blyth, K., McCabe, P., Madill, C., Ballard, K. (2016). Ultrasound visual feedback in articulation therapy following partial glossectomy. Journal of Communication Disorders, 61, 1-15. [More Information]

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2015

Taswell, C., Villemagne, V., Yates, P., Shimada, H., Leyton, C., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Burrell, J., Hodges, J., Rowe, C. (2015). 18F-FDG PET Improves Diagnosis in Patients with Focal-Onset Dementias. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 56(10), 1547-1553. [More Information]
Murray, E., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2015). A randomized controlled trial for children with childhood apraxia of speech comparing rapid syllable transition treatment and the nuffield dyspraxia programme-third edition. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(3), 669-686. [More Information]
New, A., Robin, D., Parkinson, A., Duffy, J., McNeil, M., Piguet, O., Hornberger, M., Price, C., Eickhoff, S., Ballard, K. (2015). Altered resting-state network connectivity in stroke patients with and without apraxia of speech. NeuroImage: Clinical, 8, 429-439. [More Information]
Parnandi, A., Karappa, V., Lan, T., Shahin, M., McKechnie, J., Ballard, K., Ahmed, B., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2015). Development of a Remote Therapy Tool for Childhood Apraxia of Speech. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 7(3), 1-23. [More Information]
Murray, E., McCabe, P., Heard, R., Ballard, K. (2015). Differential Diagnosis of Children with Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(1), 43-60. [More Information]
Leyton, C., Cassidy, B., Jones, G., Villemagne, V., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Hodges, J. (2015). Divergent complex network patterns of amyloid-b deposition between language and typical alzheimer's presentations. World Congress of Neurology, United Kingdom: Journal of the Neurological Sciences. [More Information]
Leyton, C., Cassidy, B., Villemagne, V., Jones, G., Kwok, J., Rowe, C., Ballard, K. (2015). Divergent network patterns of Amyloid-B deposition in language and amnestic AD presentations. Inter-University Neuroscience & Mental Health Conference, Sydney: N/A.
Leyton, C., Cassidy, B., Villemagne, V., Jones, G., Rowe, C., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Hodges, J. (2015). Divergent network patterns of Amyloid-B deposition in language and typical Alzheimer's disease presentations. Asia & Pacific FTD & MND Meeting, Sydney: N/A.
McKechnie, J., Ballard, K., McCabe, P., Gutierrez-Osuna, R., Karappa, V., Parnandi, A., Shahin, M., Murray, E., Ahmed, B. (2015). Exploring the use of mobile technology for delivery of intensive speech therapy in children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference.
Leyton, C., Hodges, J., McLean, C., Kril, J., Piguet, O., Ballard, K. (2015). Is the logopenic-variant of primary progressive aphasia a unitary disorder? Cortex, 67, 122-133. [More Information]
Carrigg, B., Baker, E., Parry, L., Ballard, K. (2015). Persistent Speech Sound Disorder in a 22-Year-Old Male: Communication, Educational, Socio-Emotional, and Vocational Outcomes. Perspectives on School-Based Issues, 16(2), 37-49. [More Information]
Blyth, K., McCabe, P., Madill, C., Ballard, K. (2015). Speech and swallow rehabilitation following partial glossectomy: A systematic review. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 17(4), 401-410. [More Information]
Shahin, M., Ahmed, B., Parnandi, A., Karappa, V., McKechnie, J., Ballard, K., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2015). Tabby Talks: An automated tool for the assessment of childhood apraxia of speech. Speech Communication, 70, 49-64. [More Information]
McKechnie, J., Ballard, K., McCabe, P., Gutierrez-Osuna, R., Karappa, V., Parnandi, A., Shahin, M., Murray, E., Ahmed, B. (2015). Tablet-based delivery of intensive speech therapy in children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech â€“ In-home tablet trial phase. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference.
Ballard, K., Wambaugh, J., Duffy, J., Layfield, C., Maas, E., Mauszycki, S., McNeil, M. (2015). Treatment for Acquired Apraxia of Speech: A Systematic Review of Intervention Research Between 2004 and 2012. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 24(2), 316-337. [More Information]

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2014

Blyth, K., McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Madill, C., Clark, J. (2014). "Can you see what I see?" Ultrasound biofeedback following tongue cancer surgery. Speech Pathology Australia: 2014 National Conference.
Murray, E., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2014). A Systematic Review of Treatment Outcomes for Children With Childhood Apraxia of Speech. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 23(3), 486-504. [More Information]
Arciuli, J., Simpson, B., Vogel, A., Ballard, K. (2014). Acoustic Changes in the Production of Lexical Stress during Lombard Speech. Language And Speech, 57(2), 149-162. [More Information]
Vergis, M., Ballard, K., Duffy, J., McNeil, M., Scholl, D., Layfield, C. (2014). An acoustic measure of lexical stress differentiates aphasia and aphasia plus apraxia of speech after stroke. Aphasiology, 28(5), 554-575. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Tourville, J., Robin, D. (2014). Behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging studies of acquired apraxia of speech. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 1-9. [More Information]
Blyth, K., McCabe, P., Heard, R., Clark, J., Madill, C., Ballard, K. (2014). Cancers of the tongue and floor of mouth: five-year file audit within the acute phase. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 23(4), 668-678. [More Information]
McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Morgan, A., Purcell, A., Thomas, D., McKechnie, J., Lim, J. (2014). Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Prevalence, prognosis and services.
Shahin, M., Ahmed, B., Ballard, K. (2014). Classification of lexical stress patterns using deep neural network architecture. 2014 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2014), Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
Ballard, K., McCabe, P. (2014). Developmental motor speech disorders. In Louise Cummings (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Communication Disorders, (pp. 383-399). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Leyton, C., Piguet, O., Lam, B., Hodges, J., Ballard, K. (2014). Dissecting naming impairments in the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia. The 9th International Conference on Frontotemporal Dementias, United Kingdom.
Taswell, C., Villemagne, C., Yates, P., Shimada, H., Leyton, C., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Burrell, J., Hodges, J., Rowe, C. (2014). FDG-PET improves diagnosis in patients presenting with focal onset variant of Alzheimerâ€™s disease. Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting.
Lan,, T., Aryal,, S., Ahmed,, B., Ballard, K., Gutierez-Osuna,, R. (2014). Flappy voice: An interactive game for childhood apraxia of speech therapy. 1st ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY 2014), : Springer Verlag.
Ballard, K., Savage, S., Leyton, C., Vogel, A., Hornberger, M., Hodges, J. (2014). Logopenic and nonfluent variants of primary progressive aphasia are differentiated by acoustic measures of speech production. PloS One, 9(2), 1-14. [More Information]
McCabe, P., MacDonald-D'Silva, A., van Rees, L., Ballard, K., Arciuli, J. (2014). Orthographically sensitive treatment for dysprosody in children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech using ReST intervention. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 17(2), 137-146. [More Information]
McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Munro, N. (2014). Parental concerns about the lack of services across Australia.
Leyton, C., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Hodges, J. (2014). Phonologic errors as a clinical marker of the logopenic variant of PPA. Neurology, 82(18), 1620-1627. [More Information]
Maas, E., Gutierrez, K., Ballard, K. (2014). Phonological encoding in apraxia of speech and aphasia. Aphasiology, 28(1), 25-48. [More Information]
Thomas, D., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2014). Rapid Syllable Transitions (ReST) treatment for Childhood Apraxia of Speech: The effect of lower dose-Frequency. Journal of Communication Disorders, 51, 29-42. [More Information]
Tan,, C., Johnston,, A., Bluff,, A., Ferguson,, S., Ballard, K. (2014). Retrogaming as visual feedback for speech therapy. SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications, SA 2014, : Springer Verlag.
Tan,, C., Johnston,, A., Bluff,, A., Ferguson,, S., Ballard, K. (2014). Speech invaders & Yak-man: Retrogames for speech therapy. SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications, SA 2014, : Springer Verlag.
McKechnie, J., Ballard, K., McCabe, P., Gutierrez-Osuna, R., Karappa, V., Parnandi, A., Shahin, M., Murray, E., Ahmed, B. (2014). Tablet-based delivery of intensive speech therapy in children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech - Pilot Phase. Speech Pathology Australia: 2014 National Conference.
Leyton, C., Savage, S., Irish, M., Schubert, S., Piguet, O., Ballard, K., Hodges, J. (2014). Verbal Repetition in Primary Progressive Aphasia and Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 41(2), 575-585. [More Information]
Blyth, K., McCabe, P., Madill, C., Clarke, J., Ballard, K. (2014). What are the outcomes? Use of tongue ultrasound as visual feedback following partial glossectomy. The Tri-Society Head & Neck Oncology Meeting.

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2013

Leyton, C., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Hodges, J. (2013). A specific clinical marker of logopenic aphasia. 41st Annual Tow Research Meeting, Sydney, Australia.
Parnandi, A., Karappa, V., Son, Y., Shahin, M., McKechnie, J., Ballard, K., Ahmed, B., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2013). Architecture of an automated therapy tool for childhood apraxia of speech. 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2013), New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Savage, S., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Hodges, J. (2013). Bringing words back to mind - Improving word production in semantic dementia. Cortex, 49(7), 1823-1832. [More Information]
Arciuli, J., Nash, R., Henderson-Faranda, N., Ballard, K. (2013). Do acoustic measures of stress contrastivity reveal a link between expressive prosody and reading ability in typically developing children? Prosody in reading symposium. Twentieth Annual Meeting Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Hong Kong, China.
McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Morgan, A., Murray, E., Purcell, A., Thomas, D., McKechnie, J., Lim, J. (2013). Inquiry into the prevalence of different types of speech, language and communication disorders and speech pathology services in Australia.
Courson, M., Ballard, K., Canault, M., Layfield, C., Scholl, D., Gentil, C. (2013). Lexical stress production in healthy and apraxic speakers of Australian English or French. Journal Of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 20(4), 47-52.
Ballard, K., Leyton, C., Vogel, A., Savage, S., Hodges, J. (2013). Logopenic & nonfluent primary progressive aphasia are reliably differentiated by acoustic measures of speech production. 2013 ASHA Convention, Chicago, USA.
Leyton, C., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Hodges, J. (2013). Phonological errors as a specific clinical marker of logopenic aphasia. CCD Annual Workshop. Macquarie University.
Ballard, K. (2013). Shaping questions for the next decade: Listening to clients, parents, and clinicians. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 15(3), 221-222. [More Information]
Tan, C., Johnston, A., Ballard, K., Ferguson, S., Perera-Schulz, D. (2013). sPeAK-MAN: Towards popular gameplay for speech therapy. 9th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE 2013), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Scholl, D., Ballard, K., McCabe, P., Nickels, L. (2013). The outcome of semantic feature analysis treatment in aphasia with and without apraxia of speech. 2013 ASHA Convention, Chicago, USA.

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2012

Murray, E., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2012). A comparison of two treatments for childhood apraxia of speech: methods and treatment protocol for a parallel group randomised control trial. BMC Pediatrics, 12(3), 1-9. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Smith, H., Paramatmuni, D., McCabe, P., Theodoros, D., Murdoch, B. (2012). Amount of Kinematic Feedback Affects Learning of Speech Motor Skills. Motor Control, 16(1), 106-119. [More Information]
Croot, K., Ballard, K., Leyton, C., Hodges, J. (2012). Apraxia of Speech and Phonological Errors in the Diagnosis of Nonfluent/Agrammatic and Logopenic Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55(5), S1562-S1572. [More Information]
Shahin, M., Ahmed, B., Ballard, K. (2012). Automatic classification of unequal lexical stress patterns using machine learning algorithms. IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology 2012, Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
Young, S., Purcell, A., Ballard, K., Rickard Liow, S., Da Silva Ramos, S., Heard, R. (2012). Bilingual children with nonsyndromic cleft lip and/or palate: Language and memory skills. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55(5), 1314-1328. [More Information]
Scholl, D., Ballard, K. (2012). Comparison of perceptual and acoustic analysis of prosodic features in aphasia with and without apraxia of speech. 2012 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Hobart.
Ballard, K., Djaja, D., Arciuli, J., James, D., Van Doorn, J. (2012). Developmental Trajectory for Production of Prosody: Lexical Stress Contrastivity in Children 3 to 7 Years and Adults. 16th Biennial Conference on Motor Speech, Santa Rosa, USA.
Ballard, K., Djaja, D., Arciuli, J., James, D., Van Doorn, J. (2012). Developmental Trajectory for Production of Prosody: Lexical Stress Contrastivity in Children Ages 3 to 7 Years and in Adults. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55(6), 1822-1835. [More Information]
Murray, E., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2012). Diagnosing Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS): What do kids with and without CAS look like? 2012 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Hobart.
Murray, E., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2012). Differential diagnosis of 56 children with suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Motor Speech Conference.
Taylor, C., Aird, V., Power, E., Davies, E., Madelaine, C., McCarry, A., Ballard, K. (2012). Objective measurement of dysarthric speech following traumatic brain injury: Clinical application of acoustic analysis. Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech Language Pathology, 14(3), 129-135.
Ruggero, L., McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Munro, N. (2012). Paediatric Speech-Language Pathology Service Delivery: An Exploratory Survey of Australian Parents. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 14(4), 338-350. [More Information]
Murray, E., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2012). The first randomised control trial for Childhood Apraxia of Speech (ReST vs Nuffield Dyspraxia Program-3). 2012 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Hobart.
Blyth, K., McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Madill, C., Clark, J. (2012). Tongue and floor of mouth cancer surgery: 5 year file audit of treatment, rehabilitation and functional outcomes. Australia and New Zealand Head and Neck Cancer Society Annual Scientific Meeting.
van Rees, L., Ballard, K., McCabe, P., MacDonald-D'Silva, A., Arciuli, J. (2012). Training production of lexical stress in typically developing children with orthographically biased stimuli and principles of motor learning. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 21(3), 197-206. [More Information]
Ferguson, S., Johnston, A., Ballard, K., Tan, C., Perera-Schulz, D. (2012). Visual feedback of acoustic data for speech therapy: Model and design parameters. 7th Audio Mostly Conference: A Conference on Interaction with Sound, New York, New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]

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2011

Young, S., Ballard, K., Heard, R., Purcell, A. (2011). Communication and Cognition Profiles in Parents of Children with Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip and/or Palate. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 33(6), 658-671. [More Information]
Leyton, C., Villemagne, V., Savage, S., Pike, K., Ballard, K., Piguet, O., Burrell, J., Rowe, C., Hodges, J. (2011). Subtypes of progressive aphasia: Application of the international consensus criteria and validation using b-amyloid imaging. Brain, 134(10), 3030-3043. [More Information]

2010

Ballard, K., Robin, D., McCabe, P., McDonald, J. (2010). A Treatment for Dysprosody in Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 53(5), 1227-1245. [More Information]
Young, S., Purcell, A., Ballard, K. (2010). Expressive language skills in Chinese Singaporean preschoolers with nonsyndromic cleft lip and/or palate. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 74(5), 456-464. [More Information]
Leyton, C., Savage, S., Piguet, O., Ballard, K., Pike, K., Villemagne, V., Jones, G., Rowe, C., Burrell, J., Hodges, J. (2010). May Primary Progressive Aphasia be an atypical presentation of Alzheimerâ€™s disease? Brain Science UNSW Symposium. The Developing Brain â€“from Womb to Tomb.
de Miranda Marzullo, A., Neto, O., Ballard, K., Robin, D., Chaitow, L., Christou, E. (2010). Neural control of the lips differs for young and older adults following a perturbation. Experimental Brain Research, 206(3), 319-327. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Varley, R., Kendall, D. (2010). Promising Approaches to Treatment of Apraxia of Speech: Preliminary Evidence and Directions for the Future. Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders, 20, 87-93. [More Information]
Pike, K., Villemagne, V., Piguet, O., Ballard, K., Leyton, C., Jones, G., Rowe, C., Hodges, J. (2010). When is progressive aphasia due to Alzheimerâ€™s disease? A PiB-PET study. International Conference on Alzheimerâ€™s Disease.

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2009

Miles, R., Ballard, K., Taylor, C., McMahan, A., Power, E. (2009). A Controlled Clinical Application of Motor Learning Principles with Apraxia of Speech. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference 2009, Adelaide: Speech Pathology Australia.
Tomblin, J., O'Brien, M., Shriberg, L., Williams, C., Murray, J., Patil, S., Bjork, J., Anderson, S., Ballard, K. (2009). Language Features in a Mother and Daughter of a Chromosome 7;13 Translocation Involving FOXP2. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 52(5), 1157-1174. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Solomon, N., Robin, D., Moon, J., Folkins, J. (2009). Nonspeech assessment of the speech production mechanism. In McNeil MR (Eds.), Clinical Management of Sensorimotor Speech Disorders, (pp. 30-45). New York: Thieme Medical Publishers.
Ballard, K., Robin, D., McCabe, P., McDonald, J. (2009). Treating Dysprosody in Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference 2009, Adelaide: Speech Pathology Australia.

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2008

McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Robin, D. (2008). An innovative syllable transition treatment Trial for childhood apraxia of speech. 14th Biennial Conference on Motor Speech 2008, United States: Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital.
Staples, T., McCabe, P., Ballard, K., Robin, D. (2008). Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Treatment Outcomes at 6 months of an Intervention Incorporating Principles of Motor Learning. Joint New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists Association / Speech Pathology Australia Conference 2008, Australia: Speech Pathology Australia.
Austermann Hula, S., Robin, D., Maas, E., Ballard, K., Schmidt, R. (2008). Effects of feedback frequency and timing on acquisition, retention and transfer of speech skills in acquired apraxia of speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 51(5), 1088-1113. [More Information]
Maas, E., Robin, D., Wright, D., Ballard, K. (2008). Motor programming in apraxia of speech. Brain and Language, 106(2), 107-118. [More Information]
Madill, C., McCabe, P., Ballard, K. (2008). Principles of Motor Learning and Voice Training. ARC Network in Human Communication Science Symposium HCSNet Summerfest 2008, Australia: Human Communication Science Network.
Maas, E., Robin, D., Austermann Hula, S., Freedman, S., Wulf, G., Ballard, K., Schmidt, R. (2008). Principles of Motor Learning in Treatment of Motor Speech Disorders. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 17(3), 277-298. [More Information]

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2007

Ballard, K., Robin, D. (2007). Influence of continual biofeedback on jaw pursuit-tracking in healthy adults and in adults with apraxia plus aphasia. Journal of Motor Behavior, 39(1), 19-28. [More Information]
Ballard, K., Maas, E., Robin, D. (2007). Treating control of voicing in apraxia of speech with variable practice. Aphasiology, 21(12), 1195-1217. [More Information]

2006

Shriberg, L., Ballard, K., Tomblin, J., Duffy, J., O'dell, K., Williams, C. (2006). Speech, Prosody, and Voice Characteristics of a Mother and Daughter With a 7;13 Translocation Affecting FOXP2. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49(3), 500-525. [More Information]

2004

Murray, L., Ballard, K., Karcher, L. (2004). Linguistic Specific Treatment: Just for Broca's aphasia? Aphasiology, 18(9), 785-809. [More Information]

2003

Ballard, K., Robin, D., Folkins, J. (2003). An integrative model of speech motor control: A response to Ziegler. Aphasiology, 17(1), 37-48. [More Information]
Dean, M., Ballard, K., Glass, A., Ballard, J. (2003). Influence of Two Wolbachia Strains on Population Structure of East African Drosophila simulans. Genetics, 165, 1959-1969.

Selected Grants

2022

Developmental trajectory of tongue control for speech with real-time MRI, Ballard K, Jin C, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2021

Speech recognition adaptation for low resource populations, Ahmed B, Ballard K, Epps J, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2018

AusKidTalk: An Australian Children's Speech Corpus, Ballard K, Arciuli J, Baker E, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF)

2017

The effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) and exercise for dysphagia in adults with multiple sclerosis; a randomised trial, Bogaardt H, Ballard K, Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia/Incubator Grant

2015

Towards development of a freely available and accurate analysis of vocal attack time on vowel onsets: Comparison of 3 measures of voice onset with glottal pulse identification in PRAAT., Madill C, McCabe P, Ballard K, Gregory C, Australian Acoustical Society/Education Grant

2014

Apraxia World: An interactive, technologybasedcomprehensive tool for remote speech therapy of childhood apraxia of speech, Ahmed B, Gutierrez-Osuna R, Ballard K, Qatar National Research Fund/Research Support
Developing clinician skills in teaching motor abilities: A framework for teaching and assessment, Madill C, Ballard K, McCabe P, Rooney K, Hodges N, Office of Global Engagement/IPDF Grant

2013

Differentiation and treatment for nonfluent variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia, Leyton C, Ballard K, DVC Research/Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme
Discovering the Developmental Trajectory of Lexical Stress Production, Arciuli J, Ballard K, Vogel A, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2012

Converting thoughts to speech: A new model of human speech production through computational modeling and human functional brain imaging, Ballard K, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Future Fellowships (FT)
Mobile Infrastructure and Automated Tools for the Monitoring and Treatment of Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Ahmed B, Ballard K, Qatar National Research Fund/Research Support
Childhood Apraxia of Speech Assessment International Consortium, Ballard K, Maassen B, McCabe P, McCauley R, Namasivayam A, Shriberg L, Strand E, Terband H, van Lieshout P, Zmarich C, Office of Global Engagement/IPDF Grant

2011

The Development of Speech Production: Focus on Prosody, Arciuli J, Ballard K, Vogel A, DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant

2009

Accurate differentiation of acquired speech and language disorders for positive rehabilitation outcomes, Ballard K, Robin D, O'Dwyer N, McNeil M, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Project Grants

2007

Phenotypic profiles of families with a speech-sound disorder of suspected genetic origin: Speech, oromotor, language, literacy, and cognitive characteristics, Baker E, Ballard K, Sydney Children's Hospitals Foundation/Research Grant

2006

Development of biofeedback treatments for motor speech disorders, Ballard K, University of Sydney/Newly Appointed Staff

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