Linda M. Milosky

Biography

She currently directs a 5-year personnel preparation grant from the Office of Special Education Programs of the US Department of Education. The grant provides scholarships to master's students in speech-language pathology to enhance development of expertise in: connections between oral and written language development during preschool; the unique needs of children who come from high poverty backgrounds; the techniques for developing behavioral competencies and school readiness skills that children need in order to benefit from preschool environment. An innovative element of the grant is that students will learn to implement data‐driven therapy through the use of single-subject designs in both clinic and school settings. In designing these interventions, they will use evidence-based techniques, learning how to translate large‐scale research to everyday practice.

Research Interest

Professor Milosky specializes in language acquisition and disorders, with specific interest in cognitive, linguistic, and social aspects of discourse processing in normal and clinical populations. Her work includes the study of children's acquisition of figurative language, particularly idioms and irony, and the various factors that assist children in interpreting such language.