
Prof. Nan B Ratner ED.D., SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
DEPT. OF HEARING & SPEECH SCIENCES 0100 LEFRAK HALL COLLEGE PARK MD, 20742About
Dr. Nan Ratner is a speech language pathologist practicing in COLLEGE PARK, MD. Dr. Ratner specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Ratner evaluates, diagnoses and treats patients with communication and swallowing troubles. These conditions may be due to developmental delay, brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke or other diseases and injuries. Dr. Ratner helps patients make sounds and improve their voices through various methods. Speech language pathologists also work with patients to strengthen muscles used to speak and swallow, and work with individuals and families to help cope with their conditions.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Parental perceptions of children's communicative development at stuttering onset.
- Parental language input to children at stuttering onset.
- Learning to speak.
- Patterns of parental vocabulary selection in speech to very young children.
- Effects of gradual increases in sentence length and complexity on children's dysfluency.
- Higher pitch in BT is not universal: acoustic evidence from Quiche Mayan.
- Patterns of vowel modification in mother-child speech.
- Communicative development in twins with discordant histories of recurrent otitis media.
- Phonetic profiles of toddlers with specific expressive language impairment (SLI-E).
- Syntactic complexity, fluency, and accuracy of sentence imitation in adolescents.
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