Hailey Ashcroft

Emma Eccles Jones College of Education & Human Services

Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education

Hailey Ashcroft is a senior at Utah State University studying Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education. Over the past two years she has been involved in the Gillam Child Language Research Lab. During this time, she has researched the effects of a narrative intervention on narratives produced by children using the Monitoring Indicators of Scholarly Language (MISL) -a narrative proficiency measure designed to rate the completeness and coherence of stories. She has presented her research findings in poster presentation sessions at the 2018 Utah Conference of Undergraduate Research at Southern Utah University, the 2018 National Conference of Undergraduate Research at the University of Central Oklahoma, as well as the upcoming 2019 UCUR at Weber State University. She has also worked on various projects researching the effectiveness of the Supporting Knowledge in Language and Literacy (SKILL) intervention, such as administering and scoring the TNL2, TEWL, Gates, Oral Narrative, KBIT2 and Written Narrative language tests, transcribing audio samples using the SALT program, and data collection. She plans on continuing with her research as a master’s student in the Speech Language Pathology program starting summer of 2019.