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1.     Shield, A., & Ferris, L. (2024). Variability in the representation of the ASL fingerspelled alphabet shows evidence of the perspective-taking problem. Sign Language Studies.

2.     Meier, R.P., Rathmann, C., & Shield, A. (2023). Editorial: “Modality and Language Acquisition: How does the channel through which language is expressed affect how children and adults are able to learn? Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1334171

3.     Singleton, J.L., Walker, K., Meier, R.P., & Shield, A. (2023). A case study of the American Sign Language patterns of a natively-exposed deaf autistic signer. Language Acquisition (Special Issue on Clinical Populations acquiring languages other than English). DOI:10.1080/10489223.2023.2272837

4.     Shield, A., Igel, M., & Meier, R.P. (2022). Are palm reversals the pronoun reversals of sign language? Evidence from a fingerspelling task. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.953019

5.     Chenausky, K., Baker, A., & Shield, A. (2022). Concurrent predictors of supplementary sign use in school-aged children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. doi: 10.1044/2022_LSHSS-22-00017

6.     Chenausky, K.V., Gagné, D., Stipancic, K.L., Shield, A., & Green, J. (2021). The relationship between single-word speech severity and intelligibility in childhood apraxia of speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00213

7.     Shield, A., Neild, R., & Graham, P. (2020). Educational strategies for deaf children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Perspectives on Early Childhood Psychology and Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.58948/2834-8257.1062

8.     Chenausky, K., Brignell, A., Morgan, A., Gagne, D., Norton, D., Tager-Flusberg, H., Schlaug, G., Shield, A., & Green, J. (2020). Factor analysis of signs of childhood apraxia of speech. Journal of Communication Disorders, 87. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2020.106033

9.     Shield, A., Wang, X.,Bone, D., Narayanan, S., & Grossman, R.B. (2020). Linguistic and prosodic correlates of rapid social judgments of children and adolescents with and without ASD. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2020.1771772

10.  Shield, A., Igel, M., Randall, K., & Meier, R.P. (2020). The source of palm orientation errors in the signing of children with ASD: Imitative, motoric, or both? Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10050268

11.  Mazzaggio, G. & Shield, A. (2020). The production of pronouns and verb inflections by Italian children with ASD: A new dataset in a null subject language. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. DOI: 10.1007/s10803-019-04349-7

12.  Shield, A., & Meier, R.P. (2018). Learning an embodied visual language: Four imitation strategies available to sign learners. Frontiers in Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00811

13.  Shield, A., Knapke, K., Henry, M., Srinivasan, S., &Bhat, A. (2017). Impaired praxis in gesture imitation by deaf children with autism spectrum disorder. Autism and Developmental Language Impairments. https://doi.org/10.1177/239694151774567

14.  Shield, A., Cooley, F., & Meier, R.P. (2017). Sign language echolalia in deaf children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 1622-1634. https://doi.org/10.1044/2016_JSLHR-L-16-029

15.  Bhat, A.N., Srinivasan, S.M., Woxholdt, C., & Shield, A. (2016). Differences in praxis performance and receptive language during fingerspelling between deaf children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Autism. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177/1362361316672179  

16.  Shield, A., Pyers, J., Martin, A., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2016). Relations between language and cognition in native-signing children with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 9, 1304-1315.DOI: 10.1002/aur.1621

17.  Shield, A., Meier, R.P., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2015). The use of sign language pronouns by native-signing children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45, 2128-2145. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2377-x

18.  Shield, A. (2014). Preliminary findings of similarities and differences in the speech and sign language of children with autism. Seminars in Speech and Language, 35, 309-320. DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1389103

19.  Mood, D., & Shield, A. (2014). Clinical use of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-Second Edition with children who are deaf. Seminars in Speech and Language, 35, 288-300DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1389101

20.  Szarkowski, A., Mood, D., Shield, A., Wiley, S., & Yoshinaga-Itano, C. (2014). A summary of current understanding regarding children with autism spectrum disorder who are deaf or hard of hearing. Seminars in Speech and Language, 35, 241-259. DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1389097

21.  Shield, A., & Meier, R.P (2012). Palm reversal errors in native-signing children with autism. Journal of Communication Disorders45, 439-454. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2012.08.004