Founded: 1989
Full Time: 1
Part Time: 5
Budget: 100,000.00
Director: Dr. John Oller
P.O. Box 43170
Lafayette, LA 70504
Telephone: 337/482-6721 FAX: 337/482-6195 E-Mail:
Research Areas:
The Doris B. Hawthorne Center is committed to research in improving the quality of life for children who have been diagnosed as having language learning disabilities. This included research in the area of the causes, treatments of such disorders, and in the best practice arena associated with school systems. The Hawthorne scholar is also interested in such areas as closed head injuries, and ethnography studies involving the environment in which people with language and language learning disorders function.
Areas of Expertise:
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
The Doris B. Hawthorne works in close corporation with the department of Communicative Disorders so that the area expertise of each of the faculty and the research laboratory equipment of the department are available to the Center. The Center also works cooperatively with other units of the university such as College of Education, departments of Sociology and Anthropology and the departments of English and Modern Languages.
Research Equipment:
Keywords:
0410000 Linguistics/Philology
0410001 Language Acquistion & Development
0410003 Phonology
0410006 Psycholinguistics
0410009 Semantics
0410013 Syntax
0416015 Handicapped Social/Recreation Services
0501010 School Organization
0502014 English as a Second Language
0502035 Speech/Communication Education
0502040 Allied Health Education
0504019 Precollegiate Education/Special Education
0507002 Emotionally Disturbed Education
0507003 Gifted or Talented Education
0507004 Handicapped Education
0507005 Learning Disabled Education
0507006 Remedial Education
0705010 Brain
0705065 Respiratory System
0710120 Speech Pathology