Oetting received a BA in Speech-Language Pathology from Augustana College in 1986.[1] In 1988, Oetting completed an MA in Speech-Language Pathology, at the University of Kansas. She earned her Ph.D. in Child Language from the same university in 1992 under the supervision of Mabel Rice.[2] Oetting’s dissertation, “Language-impaired and normally developing children's acquisition of English plural,” examined the plural systems of children with and without specific language impairment and showed evidence of dualistic representation of this grammar structure in both groups, even though the children with SLI showed limited productivity of regular plural marking.[3]
Career and research
Oetting is the Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Louisiana State University.[2] She directs the D4 Child Language Lab, which supports research on language Development and Disorders across Dialects of English to reduce Disparities in health and education among children.[4]
In 2015, she represented Louisiana State University during a hearing about the conduct and language of Teresa Buchanan.[5]
Honours and awards
Oetting was inducted as a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 2005. She was inducted as Fellow of the Louisiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 2005, received Honors and the Jeannette-Laguaite Award from this association in 2007 and 2008,[9][10][11] and served as Vice-President and President of this association in 2001 and 2002.[12][unreliable source?]
Biography
The first of four children, Janna Beth Oetting was born in 1964 in Seward, Nebraska, to Bob and Carol Oetting.[13][unreliable source?]
Newkirk-Turner, Brandi L.; Oetting, Janna B.; Stockman, Ida J. (2016). "Development of Auxiliaries in Young Children Learning African American English". Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. 47 (3): 209–224. doi:10.1044/2016_LSHSS-15-0063. PMID27309386.
Oetting, J. B. & Hadley, P. (2017). Morphosyntax in child language disorders. In. R. G. Schwartz (Ed.). The Handbook of Child Language Disorders (2nd ed., pp. 365–391). New York, NY: Psychological Press.
McDonald, Janet L.; Seidel, Christy M.; Hammarlund, Rebecca; Oetting, Janna B. (2018). "Working memory performance in children with and without specific language impairment in two nonmainstream dialects of English". Applied Psycholinguistics. 39: 145–167. doi:10.1017/S0142716417000509.
Oetting, Janna B. (2018). "Prologue: Toward Accurate Identification of Developmental Language Disorder within Linguistically Diverse Schools". Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. 49 (2): 213–217. doi:10.1044/2018_LSHSS-CLSLD-17-0156. PMID29621801.
Oetting, J. B. (2019). Variability within varieties of language: Profiles of typicality and impairment. Selected Proceedings of the 7th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America Conference (pp. 59–82). Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
