Research focuses on narrative assessment and code-switching in school-age speakers who are bidialectal—having facility with both African American English (AAE) and Mainstream American English (MAE). Current projects include the following (a) determining the impact of dialect density and narrative type on adult ratings of the integrity of children's narration, (b) determining relationships among social capital, social class, and children's narration, and (c) identifying eye-gaze pattern profiles in bidialectal speakers with- and without language impairment. Dr. Mills works with students in the Child Language Ability as well as collaborators at UH (Dr. Kia Noelle Johnson) and at other universities. She employs multiple methods to answer research questions such as experiments, ethnographic case studies, audiotaped language samples, focus groups, norm-referenced tests, surveys, and qualitative interviews.
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Gulf Coast Cluster for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
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