Shelley L. Velleman

Associate Professor
Communication Disorders
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Voice Phone Number: (413) 545-3636
Fax Phone Number: (413) 545-0803

Postal Address:
Dept. of Communication Disorders
358 North Pleasant St.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003

• Refereed journal articles
  • Pearson, B. Z., Velleman, S. L., Charko, T., & Bryant, T. J. (in preparation). Similarities and differences in the phonological development of AAE- and MAE-learning children. Unpublished manuscript, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
  • Velleman, S. L., Currier, A., Lippe, C., & Mervis, C. B. (in preparation). Phonological development in Williams syndrome: Vocalizations at 18 months. Paper presented at the 11th International Professional Conference on Williams Syndrome: Genetics, Neuroimaging, Cognition, and Clinical Issues, Richmond, VA.
  • Marili, K. E., Andrianopoulos, M. V., Velleman, S. L., & Foreman, C. G. (2004, November). Incidence of motor speech impairment in autism and Asperger's Disorder. Paper presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Perkins, J., Andrianopoulos, M. V., & Velleman, S. L. (in preparation). Acoustic speech characteristics of childhood apraxia of speech. Ms., University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
  • Velleman, S. L., Bryant, T. J., Abdulkarim, L., & Seymour, H. N. (in submission). Phonological predictors of final consonant cluster reductions in child African American English.
  • Velleman, S. L., & Vihman, M. M. (2002). Whole-word phonology and templates: Trap, bootstrap, or some of each? Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in the Schools, 33, 9-23.
  • Vihman, M. M., & Velleman, S. L. (2001). More crosslinguistic evidence on fillers in the late single-word period. Journal of Child Language, 28(1), 279-282.
  • Vihman, M. M., & Velleman, S. L. (2000). The construction of a first phonology. Phonetica, 57(2-4), 255-266.
  • Velleman, S. L., & Shriberg, L. D. (1999). Metrical analysis of children with Suspected Developmental Apraxia of Speech and inappropriate stress. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 42(6), 1444-1460.
  • Bahr, R. H., Velleman, S. L., & Ziegler, M. A. (1999). Meeting the challenge of "Suspected Developmental Apraxia of Speech" through inclusion. Topics in Language Disorders, 19(3), 19-35.
  • Velleman, S. L. (1994). The Interaction of phonetics and phonology in developmental verbal dyspraxia: Two case studies. Clinics in Communication Disorders, 4(1), 67-78.
  • Vihman, M. M. & Velleman, S. L. (1989). Phonological reorganization: A case study. Language and Speech, 32, 149-170.
  • Velleman, S. L., Mangipudi, L., & Locke, J. (1989). Prelinguistic phonetic contingency: Data from Down syndrome. First Language, 9, 159-174.
  • Velleman, S. L. (1988). The role of linguistic perception in later phonological development. Applied Psycholinguistics, 9, 221-236.
• Articles in proceedings volumes
  • Velleman, S. (in press). Variation in developing phonologies: Comments on Vihman and colleagues, Docherty and colleagues, and Scobbie. In L. M. Goldstein, D. H. Whalen & C. T. Best (Eds.), Papers in Laboratory Phonology 8. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Velleman, S. L. (2003). VMPAC and PEPS-C: Effective new tools for differential diagnosis? In L. D. Shriberg & T. F. Campbell (Ed.), 2002 Childhood Apraxia of Speech Research Symposium, (pp. 81-88). Tucson, Arizona: The Hendrix Foundation.
  • Velleman, S. L. (1996a). The development of phonology and mental representations in a child with pervasive developmental disorder. In T. P. Powell (Eds.), Pathologies of Speech and Language: Contributions of Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics (pp. 27-36). New Orleans, LA: International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association.
  • Velleman, S. L. (1996b). Metathesis highlights feature-by-position constraints. In B. Bernhardt, J. Gilbert, & D. Ingram (Eds.), Proceedings of the UBC International Conference on Phonological Acquisition (pp. 173-186). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Velleman, S. L. (1984). Experimental techniques for verification of child phonological systems. In G. Nathan (Eds.), Proceedings from the Uses of Phonology conference. Carbondale, IL: SIU Occasional Papers in Linguistics.
• Non-refereed journal articles
  • Velleman, S. L. (2002). Phonotactic therapy. Seminars in Speech and Language, 23(1), 43-56.
  • Davis, B. L., & Velleman, S. L. (2000). Differential diagnosis and treatment of Developmental Apraxia of Speech in infants and toddlers. Infant-Toddler Intervention, 10(3), 177-192.
  • Velleman, S. L. (1998). Lexical stress errors in Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia: The problem and some possible solutions. SID#1 Newsletter.
  • Peterson, R., & Velleman, S. L. (1990). Speech development. Clinics in Plastic Surgery Special Issue on Pediatric Plastic Surgery: Timing and Techniques, 17(1), 23-25.
• Book chapters
  • Velleman, S. L., & Vihman, M. M. (in press). Phonological development in infancy and early childhood: Implications for theories of language learning. In M. Pennington (Ed.), Palgrave guide to phonology. UK: MacMillan.
  • Velleman, S. (2005). Perspectives in assessment. In A. G. Kamhi & K. Pollock (Eds.), Phonological disorders in children: Clinical decision making in assessment and intervention: Brookes.
  • Velleman, S. (2005). Special considerations in intervention. In A. G. Kamhi & K. Pollock (Eds.), Phonological disorders in children: Clinical decision making in assessment and intervention: Brookes.
  • Vihman, M. M., & Velleman, S. L. (2000). Phonetics and the origins of phonology. In N. Burton-Roberts, P. Carr, & G. Docherty (Eds.), Conceptual and empirical foundations of phonology (pp. 305-339). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Velleman, S., & Strand, K. (1994). Developmental verbal dyspraxia. In J. E. Bernthal & N. W. Bankson (Eds.), Child Phonology: Characteristics, Assessment, and Intervention with Special Populations (pp. 110-139). New York: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.
  • Vihman, M. M., Velleman, S. L., & McCune, L. (1994). How abstract is child phonology? Towards an integration of linguistic and psychological approaches. In M. Yavas (Eds.), First and Second Language Phonology (pp. 9-44). San Diego: Singular Press.
• Articles in occasional papers volumes
  • Velleman, S. L., & Vihman, M. M. (2002). The emergence of the marked unfaithful. In A. Carpenter, A. Coetzee, & P. De Lacy (Eds.), University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 26: Papers in Optimality Theory II (pp. 397-419). Amherst, MA: Graduate Linguistics Students Association.
  • Velleman, S. L. (1982). The L.A.D.: Evidence from atypical language development. Texas Linguistics Forum, 21, 205-224.
• Books
  • Mullin, W. J., Gerace, W. J., Mestre, J. P., & Velleman, S. L. (2003). Fundamentals of sound with applications to speech and hearing. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
  • Velleman, S. L. (2003). Childhood apraxia of speech resource guide. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar/Thomson/Singular.
  • Velleman, S. (1998). Making Phonology Functional: What Do I Do First? Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann.
• Seminar series, editor
  • Velleman, S. L. (Issue Ed.). (2002). Update on Phonological Intervention. Seminars in Speech and Language 23(1).
• Encyclopedia entry
  • Velleman, S. L. (2004). Speech disorders in children: Descriptive linguistic approaches. In R. D. Kent (Eds.), The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders (pp. 198-200). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Published Reviews
  • Velleman, S. L. (1988). Review of D. Crystal, Clinical Linguistics. Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics, 9, 415-433.

• Early phonology
• Babble
• Childhood apraxia of speech (developmental verbal dyspraxia)
• Phonological disorders
• Relationship between phonological disorders, language disorders, and learning disorders/differences (e.g., autism)
• Acoustic analysis of infant and child speech
• Down syndrome
• Prematurity
• Williams syndrome

• Speech-language pathology
• Phonological theory, development, and disorders
• Linguistics
• Speech science
• Normal language development
• Phonetics/IPA
• Research