Dr. Priscilla Davis
Professor
Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo, 1981
M.A. Memphis State University, 1972
B.S.E. Memphis State University, 1967
Contact Information
Office: 308
700 University Boulevard East
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
Phone: 205-348-7131
Email Address: pndavis@bama.ua.edu
Research Interests:
- Child Language
- Multicultural Awareness
- Communicative Disorders in Children with Sickle Cell Disease
Publications:
The facts about sickle Cell Disease: 25 items to test your Knowledge, ADVANCE for Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists. January 28, 2002.
Sickle Cell Disease and Communication Disorders. With Gentry, B. and Dancer, J. Special Interest Division 14, Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally Diverse Populations, American Speech and Hearing Association. Volume 7, Number 1, April, 2001.
Clinical Practice Issues. In (editor) Battle, D. 3rd edition. Communication
Disorders in Multicultural Populations. MA: Heineman-Butterworth, In press.
( 2001)
Comprehension and production of gestures by children with normal and impaired language at ages 4,5, and 6. With Jacks, M., and Pancer, J. (2000) Perceptual and Motor Skills. 90, 927-929.
Plain Talk: The Future of Little Rock’s Public Schools. (1997) University
Task Force on the Little Rock School District, with Anderson, J., Briscoe, D., Chamberlain, G., Gitchel, D., Lynch, J., Sewall. A., Terry, A., and Wood, D.
Comparison of attitudes about communication in children and adolescents with sickle cell disease. With Fuller, J., Davis, P., Dancer, J., Gentry, B., & Montague, J. (1998) Perceptual and Motor Skills. 87, 634.
Gentry, B., & Davis, P. (In Press). [Review of the book Effective speech-language pathology: A cognitive socialization approach.] The Phonetician.
Prenatal alcohol exposure and communication, behavior, and nonverbal intelligence of three school-age children. (1998) With Griffith, L., Dancer, J., Eaton, B, & Shultz, E. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 86, 1089-1090.
Reading, writing and vocabulary skills of children with strokes due to sickle cell disease. (1997) With Sanders, C., Gentry, B., Jackson, J., Saccente, S., & Dancer, J., Perceptual and Motor Skills. 85, 477-478.
Failure rates of young patients with sickle cell disease on a hearing screening test. (1997) With Betholvn Gentry and Jess Dancer. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1997, 84, 434.
Language and motor skills of preschool children with sickle cell disease. (1997) With Beverly Tolbert Hayes, Betholyn Gentry and Jess Dancer. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 84, 486.
Public school nurses’ knowledge of sickle cell disease. With Doris Hale and Jess Dancer. (1997) Perceptual and Motor Skills. 85. 597-98
Reading, writing, and vocabulary skills of children with stokes due to sickle cell disease. With Christina Sanders, Betholvn Gentry, Jacquelyn Jackson, Suzanne Saccente and Jess Dancer. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 1997, 85, 597-598.
Speech and language characteristics of children with strokes due to sickle cell disease. With Betholyn Gentry, Allison Landers, Jess Dancer. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 1997, 85, 809-810.
Clinical Practice Issues. In (editor) Battle, D. 2nd edition. Communication
Disorders in Multicultural Populations. MA: Heineman-Butterworth, 1997.
Conversations between older men and women: turn-taking and topics. With Mary Martin and Jess Dancer. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 1996.83. 1330.
Interviewed in Advance for Speech Language Pathologists & Audiologists. November 27, 1995. Sickle Cell Disease Lack of Knowledge by Clinicians Impacts Research, Treatment.
A cross-sectional investigation of speech reading in adults: Effects of age, gender, practice, and education. The Volta Review, 96, 31-40, 1994. With Mark Krain, Carolyn Thompson, Priscilla Davis and Johanna Glenn.
Clinical Practice Issues in (editor) Battle, D. Communication Disorders
in Multicultural Populations CA: Andover Press, 1993.
The language house. Perspectives in Education and Deafness. (1992) with Leslie White, Jess Dancer and Bob Rittenhouse.
Multicultural programs that work. Audiocassette. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Office of Minority Concerns, 1990.
Phonetics Workbook. Kinko’s with Evelyn Albritton, 1985.
Word recognition versus sentence comprehension on a speech reading task. American Annals of the Deaf. March 1987 (with Jess Dancer and Jennifer
O’Neil).
A phonological study of black English in central Arkansas. Proceedings
of the Colloquium for the College of Communication. 1984 (with Evelyn Washington).
The effects of contextual cues on the Carrow Elicited Language Inventory. Australian Journal of Human Communication. June 1984 (with Marilyn
Macik).