Selected Publications
Girard, D. H., Kapa, L. L., & Ackley, K. L. (2025) Comparing Self-Efficacy, Self-Compassion, and Growth Mindset among Adults with and without Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, ePub, 1-15.
Kapa, L. L. (2025) Does Executive Function Performance Predict Treatment Response in Preschoolers with Developmental Language Disorder? American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, ePub, 1-13.
Kapa, L. L. (2025) Examining Potential Mediators of the Relationship Between Developmental Language Disorder and Executive Function Performance in Preschoolers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Erikson, J. A., Alt, M., Pyarelal, A., & Kapa, L. L. (2025). Science vocabulary and science achievement of children with language/literacy disorders and typical language development, Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 56, 118-141.
Kapa, L. L., & Mettler, H. M. (2024). Statistical learning among preschoolers with and without developmental language disorder: Examining effects of language status, age, and prior learning. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67, 3081-3093.
Kapa, L. L. & Mettler, H. M. (2021). Language and executive function in preschoolers with DLD: The role of self-directed speech. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 6, 1315-1326.[Invited]
Kapa, L. L. (2021). Improving Dimensional Change Care Sort performance of preschoolers with developmental language disorder: Effects of two task variations. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65, 628-634.
Kapa, L. L., Meyers-Denman, C., Plante, E., & Doubleday, K. (2020). Predictors of treatment response for preschool children with developmental language disorder. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 29, 2082-2096.
Kapa, L. L., & Erikson, J. A. (2020). The relationship between word learning and executive function in preschoolers with and without developmental language disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63, 2293–2307.
Kapa, L. L., & Erikson, J. A. (2019). Variability of executive function performance in preschoolers with developmental language disorder. Seminars in Speech and Language, 40, 243-255. [Invited]
Kapa, L. L., Plante, E., & Doubleday, K. (2017). Applying an integrative framework of executive function to preschoolers with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 2170-2184.
Kapa, L. L., & Plante, E. (2015). Executive function in SLI: Recent advances and future directions. Current Developmental Disorders Reports, 2, 245-252.
Kapa, L. L., & Colombo, J. (2014). Executive function predicts artificial language learning. Journal of Memory and Language, 76, 237-252.
Kapa, L. L., & Colombo, J. (2013). Attentional monitoring in early and later bilingual children. Cognitive Development, 28, 233-246.
Selected Presentations
Kapa, L. L., & Williams, A. (December, 2024) Comparing Planning Performance and Private Speech Production between Preschoolers with and without DLD. Presentation presented at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Seattle, WA.
Kapa, L. L. (June, 2024) Examining Potential Mediators of the Relationship between DLD and Executive Function Performance. Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Kapa, L. L., & °Mettler, H. M. (November, 2022) Self-directed speech and developmental language disorder: A beginner’s guide. Presentation presented at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, LA.
Kapa, L. L. (June, 2022). Using self-directed speech production to predict Tower of Hanoi performance in preschoolers with DLD. Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Kapa, L. L. (June, 2021). Effects of articulatory suppression on planning performance in preschoolers with DLD: A preliminary investigation. Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Virtual Conference.
Ackley, K. A., & Kapa, L. L. (November, 2020 – conference canceled due to COVID-19). Effects of martial arts intervention on executive function and fast-mapping in at-risk youth. Presentation accepted at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Diego, CA.
Kapa, L. L. (November, 2020 – conference canceled due to COVID-19). Relationship between performance-based and teacher report measures of executive function in at-risk youth. Presentation accepted at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Diego, CA.
Kapa, L. L. (November, 2020 – conference canceled due to COVID-19). Pilot investigation of group executive function intervention for preschoolers with mixed language status. Presentation accepted at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Diego, CA.
Kapa, L. L. (May, 2020 – conference canceled due to COVID-19). Private speech improves attention among preschoolers with DLD. Poster accepted at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Kapa, L. L., Vovakes, A. N., & Erikson, J. A. Phonotactic probability and neighborhood density effects on word learning in preschoolers with and without DLD. Poster presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention, Orlando, FL.
Kapa, L. L. (June, 2019).Improving card sorting performance among preschoolers with developmental language disorder. Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Kapa, L. L. (June, 2018).Does executive function performance predict enrollment in therapy for preschoolers with developmental language disorder?Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.