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 Ilsa E. Schwarz, Ph.D.
Head of UTK Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology
Email:
ischwarz@utk.edu
Dr. Ilsa Schwarz participates in research in the areas of
language development and evidence-based practice with specific interests
in language disorders and stuttering. Prior to becoming Head of Department
at UT in 2002, she was the Foundation Professor in Speech and Language
Therapy and Director of Health Studies at the University of Canterbury in
New Zealand. Dr. Schwarz has published research articles in journals that
include: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Journal of Speech
and Hearing Research, Topics in Language Disorders, Journal of
Communication Disorders, Language Speech-Hearing Services in the Schools,
the New Zealand Speech Therapy Journal, Advances, Journal of Speech
Pathology Australia, and the Journal of Fluency Disorders. She was also
the Editor of the New Zealand Speech and Language Therapy Journal from
1998-2001 and has served as a member of editorial boards for numerous
journals.
EDUCATION
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (1982). Doctor
of Philosophy; Major Area: Communication Disorders and Sciences; Area of
Emphasis: Phonological Development and Disorders.
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (1979). Master of Science; Major: Speech and
Language Pathology; Supporting Area: School Psychology.
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (1978). Bachelor of Science; Major: Speech
Pathology and Audiology; Supporting Areas: Education and Psychology.
RECENT GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS
2001 Editors Award, American
Speech-Language-Hearing Journal for the article: Nippold, M., Moran, C. &
Schwarz, I., Idiom Understanding in Preadolescents: Synergy in Action.
American Journal of Speech and Language Pathology.10 (2), 169-179.
New Zealand Specialist Education Services, Speech and Language Services in the
Schools - Best Practice in 2001. Principal Investigators Ilsa Schwarz and Gail
Gillon Funded 2001. Award total $19,673.
Health Research Council Doctoral Grant. Moran, C. and Schwarz, I. Language
assessment of adolescents with brain injury.. Funded 1999. Award total $48,000.
New Zealand Ministry of Education, Effective Provision and Resourcing of Speech
and Language Services for Special Education 2000: Database and Best Practice
Validation. Principal Investigators Ilsa Schwarz and Gail Gillon. Funded 1998.
Award total $53,517.
New Zealand Ministry of Education, Effective Provision and Resourcing of Speech
and Language Services for Special Education 2000: Literature Review. Principal
Investigators Ilsa Schwarz and Gail Gillon. Funded 1998. Award total $36,538.
U.S. Office of Education, Training Personnel for the Education of the
Handicapped, Training of Speech-Language Pathologists for Employment in Rural
Public Schools. Principal Investigator and Project Director Ilsa Schwarz.
Personnel Preparation Grant CFDA84.029B. Funded 1994-1999. Five-year award,
$121, 511 annually. Award total $607,555.
RECENT REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Schwarz, I. and Nippold, M. (2001). The
importance of early intervention. Advances in Speech Language Pathology.
Journal of the Speech Pathology Association of Australia.
Nippold, M, and Schwarz, I. (2001). Do children recover from specific language
impairment? Advances in Speech Language Pathology. Journal of the Speech
Pathology Association of Australia.
Nippold, M, Moran, C, and Schwarz, I (2001).
Proverb comprehension in New Zealand and American youth: A cross-cultural
comparison. New Zealand Journal of Speech and Language Therapy, 55,
14-22.
Nippold, M, Moran, C, and Schwarz, I. (2001). Idiom Understanding in
Preadolescents: Synergy in Action. American Journal of Speech and Language
Pathology.10 (2), 169-179.
Nippold, M., Hegel, S., Sohlberg, M., & Schwarz, I. (1999). Defining abstract
entities: Development in pre-adolescents, adolescents, and young adults.
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 42, 271-286.
Gillon G. and Schwarz, I. (1999). Effective provision and resourcing of speech
and language services for Special Education 2000: Resourcing speech and language
needs in special education - Database and best practice validation. New
Zealand Ministry of Education Publication. (Internationally Refereed) 65
pages. ISBN 0-477-05154-5.
Schwarz, I. and Gillon, G. (1998). A review of best practices and service needs
in speech-language therapy: Results of SE2000 speech-language initiative
research projects. New Zealand Journal of Speech-Language Therapy, 52,
22-31.
Gillon G. and Schwarz, I. (1998). Effective provision and resourcing of speech
and language services for Special Education 2000: An international literature
review of best practices in speech and language therapy. New Zealand Ministry
of Education Publication. 113 pages. ISBN-477-05092-1.
Nippold, M.,Uhden, L.& Schwarz. I. (1997). Proverb explanation through the
lifespan: A developmental study of adolescents and adults. Journal of Speech
and Hearing Research, 40, 245-253.
Nippold, M., & Schwarz, I. (1996a). Children with slow expressive language
development: What is the forecast for school achievement? American Journal of
Speech Language Pathology, 5, 22-25.
Nippold, M., & Schwarz, I. (1996b). Slow
expressive language development: A call for more data. American Journal of
Speech Language Pathology, 5, 29-30.
SELECTED RECENT INVITED AND REFEREED
PRESENTATIONS
Nippold, M., Moran, C. and Schwarz, I. Proverb
Understanding in New Zealand and American Youth: A Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Poster Session. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention,
New Orleans, November 2001.
Gillon, G. and Schwarz, I. Screening Spoken Language Skills for Academic
Success. National Conference, Speech Pathology Australia, May 2001.
Robb, M., Schwarz, I., and Allen, M. Speech Rates of American English-speaking
and New Zealand English-speaking Children. American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association Annual Convention, Washington D.C., November 2000.
Nippold, M., Moran, C. and Schwarz, I. Idiom Comprehension in New Zealand Youth:
Synergistic Relationships. Paper accepted for the University of Padova
Linguistics Conference “The Relevance of Linguistics in Speech and Language
Pathology”, Padova, Italy, August 2000.
Catt, J.H., Beaven, D., Lin, E. & Schwarz, I. Problem-based Instruction in the
Health Disciplines. Australia-New Zealand Association of Medical Educators
(ANZAME). Perth, Australia, July 2000.
Schwarz, I. 2000 has Arrived, Where To From Here? Conference Banquet
Speech. “Meeting the Millennium”, The New Zealand Speech and Language Therapy
Biennial Conference. Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, 2000.
Schwarz, I., Gillon, G., Onslow, M., Nippold M., Gilliam, R., and Lim E. Best
Practices in Assessment and Treatment for School-Aged Populations. American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention, San Francisco. November
1999.
Gillon, G. and Schwarz, I. Screening Children’s Spoken language Skills for
Academic Success. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual
Convention, San Francisco. November 1999.
Schwarz, I. and Gillon, G. A Review of Best Practices and Service Needs in
Speech Language Therapy; Results of SE 2000 Speech–Language Initiative Research
Projects. Special Education 2000 conference. Auckland, New Zealand, 1999.
Schwarz, I. The Department of Speech and Language Therapy and the University
of Canterbury Development Plan. Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand
Speech-Language Therapy Association, Christchurch, New Zealand. 1999.
Schwarz, I. Speech and Language Therapy Department Research Agenda. A
Plethora of Ideas: Christchurch Health Research Exchange 1999, Meeting of the
University of Otago Medical School and the University of Canterbury.
Christchurch, New Zealand, 1999.
Schwarz, I. The Department of Speech and Language Therapy: Admissions,
Curriculum and Career Outlook. University of Canterbury Liaison Update
Event,
1999.
Schwarz, I. The University of Canterbury – A Newcomer’s Perspective.
University of Canterbury Annual Faculty/Administration Seminar. Christchurch,
New Zealand, 1999.
Schwarz, I. and Gillon, G. A Review of Best Practices and Service Needs in
Speech Language Therapy; Results of SE 2000 Speech–Language Initiative Research
Projects. Specialist Education Services National Conference. Auckland, New
Zealand, 1998.
Schwarz, I. Professional Preparation in Speech-Language Therapy: Expanding
Horizons at the University of Canterbury. New Zealand Speak Easy Association
(National Stuttering Support Group) Annual General Meeting. Christchurch, New
Zealand. 1998.
Schwarz, I. Maintaining Traditions in the Process of Change: Preparing
Speech-Language Therapists for the 21st Century. Closing Address,
Communications Ahead: New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists Association
Biennial conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1998.
Schwarz, I. A Year in the Life of an Academic Head of Department. Shaping the
Way Forward: The Heads Role. Training and Development Office In-service for
Heads of Departments, 1998.
Schwarz, I. Issues in Reporting Standardised Assessment Data: The Misuse of
Developmental and Discrepancy Scores to Describe Performance. Department of
Psychology Seminar Series. University of Canterbury, 1998.
Schwarz, I. Researchers and Research in the Department of Speech and Language
Therapy. Christchurch School of Medicine and the University of Research
Seminar, Christchurch, 1998.
Roberts, K. and Schwarz, I. Audiological Content in the Speech-Language
Therapy Curriculum at the University of Canterbury. A poster presentation.
New Zealand Audiology conference. Christchurch, New Zealand, 1998.
Schwarz, I. Speech and Language Therapy Developments at the University of
Canterbury. Traumatic Brain Injury: Effects and Outcomes. Head Injury
Society of New Zealand. Christchurch, New Zealand, 1998.
Schwarz, I. and Bankson, N. Establishing a Master’s Degree Program to Meet
International Standards for Departmental Structure and Professional Practice.
Australian Speech and Language Association, Perth, Australia, May 1998.
Sample Student Research Participation
- Speech, language and pre-academic development
in children with otitus media.
- Curriculum-based English and Spanish
vocabulary assessment: A culturally and linguistic fair response to culturally
biased assessment.
- The removable R-appliance as a practice device
to facilitate the correct production of the phoneme /r/.
- A phenomenographic investigation of how
speech-language pathology students construe their clinical experience.
- A comparison of language abilities in children
with traumatic brain injury and language learning disabilities. The effects of
parental use of environmental arrangement strategies on the functional
language of preschool children.
- Assessing the prereading language development
of kindergarten students: The reliability, validity, and sensitivity of basic
language assessment story tasks as dynamic indicators of basic early literacy
skills.
- The effectiveness of two intervention
procedures on the acquisition and generalization of object labels by young
children who are at-risk or who have developmental delays.
- An investigation of three phonological
approaches to teaching phonological awareness to first grade students and the
effects on word recognition.
- Indices of written language development in
Taiwanese Youth: Syntax and semantics.
- Assessment for the primary prevention of early
academic problems: Progress monitoring of early reading skills using
curriculum-based pre-reading tasks.
CONTACT DETAILS
Ilsa E. Schwarz, Ph.D.
Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology
University of Tennessee
578 South Stadium Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-0740
Phone: (865) 974-5019
FAX: (865) 974-1539
Email: ischwarz@utk.edu
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