Speech & Language
Better diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment for children with speech and language disorder.
Speech and language skills form the foundation for later educational and academic achievement. These skills are also critical for social and mental health development. The Speech and Language group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute is interested in how speech, language, and literacy develop, and how disorders occur in each of these areas.
The group examines genetic, neural, and social-environmental predictors of speech, language, and literacy development. The team’s overarching aim is to develop intervention strategies based on research evidence so children with speech and language difficulties reach their full potential. Our work involves the identification of genes associated with severe childhood speech disorders such as apraxia of speech and dysarthria. We also conduct speech and language characterisation (phenotyping) studies in rare genetic conditions to provide better diagnostic, prognostic, and management data for affected families and clinicians working in the area. We also conduct studies of speech and language development in the general population and we are working on a novel digital tool for the assessment of speech disorder.
Our collaborations with leading national and international researchers, genetic advocacy groups, and clinicians enable us to conduct and disseminate with global impact. Our work provides better insights into how speech and language develop, what goes wrong and why it matters to those most affected.
Professor Angela Morgan: Speech disorders in children
Did you know one in five Australian children start school with a speech or language disorder? MCRI researchers have found that in some children this may have a genetic course.
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Our projects
Centre of Research Excellence in Speech and Language
The Centre of Research Excellence in Speech and Language is an international collaboration of experts in the fields of speech pathology, paediatric neurology, neuroscience, genetics and bioinformatics whose core vision is to transform speech pathology practice by identifying, understanding and targeting the underlying causes of developmental speech and language disorders. It brings together investigators across Melbourne (MCRI, University of Melbourne, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research), New South Wales (The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Hunter Genetics), Queensland (Menzies Health Institute Queensland), the UK (University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) and the Netherlands (Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics) and is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council for the next five years.
Early Language in Victoria Study (ELVS)
This study is investigating the genetic and neural contributions to speech and language disorders. We are inviting children and adults who have a speech or language disorder and their family members to take part in this Australia-wide study.
Genetics of Speech and Language Disorders
The Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital and University of Melbourne is studying the genetic and neural contributions to speech and language disorders. We are looking for child and adult participants with any form of speech, language or literacy disorder (including stuttering) to take part in our project. We are also interested in studying other members of the family without a speech, language or literacy disorder where possible.
Reverse phenotyping projects
Our team is investigating the speech and language phenotypes of several rare genetic conditions, including Koolen de Vries Syndrome, SETBP1, FOXP1, FOXP2, DDX3X, CDK13, BRPF1, DYRK1A, amongst others. This research supports our understanding of the role these genes play in speech and language development, and informs our clinical knowledge and treatment of speech and language disorders in these conditions. This study is approved by The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) ethics committee and funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence grant.
Genetics of stuttering
Our team, with multiple partners, has formed an international consortium focused on understanding the genetic basis of stuttering.
Pharmacological treatment of childhood apraxia of speech
This research investigates whether the drug methylphenidate (MPH) can improve speech and language outcomes in children with apraxia of speech (CAS). MPH is currently approved as a treatment for ADHD in children. This is the first randomised clinical trial to evaluate MPH as a potential treatment for CAS. Led by the Speech & Language Group, this research brings together MCRI, RCH and University of Melbourne speech pathology, paediatrics, neurology and neuropsychology clinicians and researchers. This trial is approved by The Royal Children’s Hospital ethics committee (HREC 77169).
Funding
- NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence
- NHMRC Project rants
- NHMRC Investigator grant
- HEARing CRC
- March of Dimes
- SFARI - Variation in Individuals Project
Collaborations
- The Royal Children’s Hospital
- The University of Melbourne
- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
- University College London
- Manchester University
- Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
- Radboud University Medical Centre
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
- Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard
Featured publications
- Atypical development of Broca’s area in a large family with inherited stuttering. 2020.
Brain. Thompson-Lake, D. G., Scerri, T. S., Block, S., Turner, S. J., Reilly, S., Kefalianos, E., Bonthrone, A. F., Helbig, I., Bahlo, M., Scheffer, I. E., Hildebrand, M. S., Liegeois, F. J. & Morgan, A. T. - Severe childhood speech disorder: Gene discovery highlights transcriptional dysregulation. 2020.
Neurology, 94(20), e2148-e2167. Hildebrand, M. S., Jackson, V. E., Scerri, T. S., Van Reyk, O., Coleman, M., Braden, R. O., Turner, S., Rigbye, K., Boys, A., Barton, S., Webster, R., Fahey, M., Saunders, K., Parry-Fielder, B., Paxton, G., Hayman, M., Coman, D., Goel, H., Baxter, A., Ma, A., David, N., Reilly, S., Detaltycki, M., Liegeois, F. J., Connelly, A., Gecz, J., Fisher, S. E., Amor, D, D. J., Scheffer, I. E., Bahlo, M., & Morgan, A. T. - Dorsal language stream anomalies in an inherited speech disorder. 2019.
Brain, 142(4), 966-977. Liégeois, F. J., Turner, S. J., Mayes, A., Bonthrone, A. F., Boys, A., Smith, L., ... & Morgan, A. T. - Inhibition of Upf2-dependent nonsense-mediated decay leads to behavioral and neurophysiological abnormalities by activating the immune response. 2019.
Neuron, 104(4), 665-679. Johnson, J. L., Stoica, L., Liu, Y., Zhu, P. J., Bhattacharya, A., Buffington, S. A., Huq, R., Eissa, N. T., Larsson, O., Porse, B. T., Domingo, E., Nawaz, U., Carroll, R., Jolly, L., Scerri, T. S., Kim, H., Brignell, A., Coleman, M., Braden, R., Kini, U., Jackson, V., Baxter, A., Bahlo, M., Scheffer, I. E., Amor, D. J., Hildebrand, M. S., Bonnen, P. E., Beeton, C., Gecz, J., Morgan, A. T. & Costa-Mattioli, M. - A set of regulatory genes co-expressed in embryonic human brain is implicated in disrupted speech development. 2019.
Molecular psychiatry, 24(7), 1065-1078. Eising, E., Carrion-Castillo, A., Vino, A., Strand, E. A., Jakielski, K. J., Scerri, T. S., Hildebrand, M. S., Webster, R., Ma, A., Mazoyer, B., Francks, C., Bahlo, M., Scheffer, I. E., Morgan A. T., Shriberg, L. D. & Fisher, S. E.
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2021
- Holm, A., Sanchez, K., Crosbie, S., Morgan, A., Dodd, B. (2021). Is children’s speech development changing? Preliminary evidence from Australian English-speaking 3-year-olds. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, E-pub ahead of print 14 November. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34779320/
- Morgan, A., Srivastava, S., Duis, J., van Bon, B. (2021). SETBP1 haploinsufficiency disorder. In: Adam MP, Ardinger HH, Pagon RA, et al., editors. GeneReviews® [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993-2021. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK575336/
- Thompson-Lake, D.G.Y., Scerri T.S., Block, S, Turner, S.J., Reilly, S., Kefalianos, E., Bonthrone, A.F., Helbig, I. Mandelstam, S., Bahlo, M., Scheffer, I.E., Hildebrand, M.S., Liegeois, F.J., Morgan, A.T. (2022). Atypical development of Broca’s area in a large family with inherited stuttering. Brain. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awab364.
- Braden, R.O., Amor, D.J., Fisher, S.E., Mei, C., Myers, C.T., Mefford, H., Gill, D., Srivastava, S., Swanson, L.C., Goel, H., Scheffer, I.E., Morgan, A.T. (2021). Severe speech impairment is a distinguishing feature of FOXP1-related disorder. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 63(12), 1417-1426. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34109629/
- Braden, R. O., Boyce, J. O., Stutterd, C. A., Pope, K., Goel, H., Leventer, R. J., ... & Morgan, A. T. (2021). Speech, Language, and Oromotor Skills in Patients With Polymicrogyria. Neurology, 96(14), e1898-e1912.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33589534/
- Morgan, A., Braden, R., Wong, M. M., Colin, E., Amor, D., Liégeois, F., ... & Van Bon, B. W. (2021). Speech and language deficits are central to SETBP1 haploinsufficiency disorder. European Journal of Human Genetics, 1-10. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33907317/
- Jansen, N. A., Braden, R. O., Srivastava, S., Otness, E. F., Lesca, G., Rossi, M., ... & Van Bon, B. W. (2021). Clinical delineation of SETBP1 haploinsufficiency disorder. European Journal of Human Genetics, 1-8. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33867525/
- Brignell, A., Gu, C., Holm, A., Carrigg, B., Sheppard, D. A., Amor, D. J., & Morgan, A. T. (2021). Speech and language phenotype in Phelan-McDermid (22q13. 3) syndrome. European Journal of Human Genetics, 29(4), 564-574.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33293697/
- Braden, R. O., Boyce, J. O., Stutterd, C. A., Pope, K., Goel, H., Leventer, R. J., ... & Morgan, A. T. (2021). Speech, Language, and Oromotor Skills in Patients With Polymicrogyria. Neurology, 96(14), e1898-e1912.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33589534/ - Alawadhi, A., Morgan, A. T., Mucha, B. E., Scheffer, I. E., & Myers, K. A. (2021). Self-limited focal epilepsy and childhood apraxia of speech with WAC pathogenic variants. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, 30, 25-28. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33387902/
- Morgan, C., Fetters, L., Adde, L., Badawi, N., Bancale, A., Boyd, R.N., Chorna, O., Cioni, G., Damiano, D.L., Darrah, J., de Vries, L.S., Dusing, S., Einspieler, C., Eliasson, A.C., Ferriero, D., Fehlings, D., Forssberg, H., Gordon, A.M., Greaves, S., Guzzetta, A., Hadders-Algra, M., Harbourne, R., Karlsson, P., Krumlinde-Sundholm, L., Latal, B., Loughran-Fowlds, A., Mak, C., Maitre, N., McIntyre, S., Mei, C., Morgan, A., Kakooza-Mwesige, A., Romeo, D.M., Sanchez, K., Spittle, A., Shepherd, R., Thornton, M., Valentine, J., Ward, R., Whittingham, K., Zamany, A., Novak, I. (2021). Early intervention for children aged 0 to 2 years with or at high risk of cerebral palsy: International clinical practice guideline based on systematic reviews. JAMA Pediatrics, 175(8), 846-858. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33999106/
- Brignell, A., Krahe, M., Downes, M., Kefalianos, E., Reilly, S., Morgan, A.T. (2021). Interventions for children and adolescents who stutter: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and evidence map. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 70, 105843. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33743406/
- Chenausky, K., Brignell, A, Morgan, A.T., Norton, A.C., Tager-Flusberg, H.B., Schlaug, G., Guenther, F.H. (2021). A modelling-guided case study of disordered speech in minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 30(3S), 1542-1557. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33852328/
2020
- Brignell, A., Krahe, M., Downes, M., Kefalianos, E., Reilly, S., & Morgan, A. T. (2020). A systematic review of interventions for adults who stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 64, 105766.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32438123/
- Hildebrand, M. S., Jackson, V. E., Scerri, T. S., Van Reyk, O., Coleman, M., Braden, R. O., Turner, S., Rigbye, K., Boys, A., Barton, S., Webster, R., Fahey, M., Saunders, K., Parry-Fielder, B., Paxton, G., Hayman, M., Coman, D., Goel, H., Baxter, A., Ma, A., David, N., Reilly, S., Detaltycki, M., Liegeois, F. J., Connelly, A., Gecz, J., Fisher, S. E., Amor, D, D. J., Scheffer, I. E., Bahlo, M., & Morgan, A. T. (2020). Severe childhood speech disorder: Gene discovery highlights transcriptional dysregulation. Neurology, 94(20), e2148-e2167. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345733/
- Mei, C., Reilly, S., Bickerton, M., Mensah, F., Turner, S., Kumaranayagam, D., Pennington, L., Reddihough, D., & Morgan, A.T. (2020). Speech in children with cerebral palsy: a population-based approach. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 62(12):1374-1382. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32588921/
- Mei, C., Fern, B., Reilly, S., Hodgson, M., Reddihough, D., Mensah, F., & Morgan, A.T. (2020). Communication behaviours of children with cerebral palsy who are minimally verbal. Child: care, health and development, 46(5):617-626. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32557737/
- Mei, C., Hodgson, M., Reilly, S., Fern, B., Reddihough, D., Mensah, F., Pennington, L., Losche, A., & Morgan, A.T. (2020). Oromotor dysfunction in minimally verbal children with cerebral palsy: characteristics and associated factors. Disability and Rehabilitation, 1-9. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32744922/
- Sanchez, K., Spittle, A.J., Boyce, J.O., Leembruggen, L., Mantelos, A., Mills, S. Mitchell, N., Neil, E., St Johns, M., Treloar, J., Morgan, A.T. (2020). Conversational language in three-year-old children born very preterm and at term. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(1), 206-215. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31855605/
- St John, M., Columbus, G., Brignell, A., Carew, P., Skeat, J., Reilly, S., & Morgan, A. T. (2020). Predicting speech‐sound disorder outcomes in school‐age children with hearing loss: The VicCHILD experience. International journal of language & communication disorders, 55(4), 537-546 .https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32374456/
- Pigdon, L., Willmott, C., Reilly, S., Conti-Ramsden, G., & Morgan, A. T. (2020). What predicts nonword repetition performance?. Child Neuropsychology, 26(4), 518-533. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31581884/
- Pigdon, L., Willmott, C., Reilly, S., Conti-Ramsden, G., Liegeios, F., Connelly, A., & Morgan, A.T. (2020). The neural basis of nonword repetition in children with developmental speech or language disorder: An fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 138, 107312. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31917203/
- Chenausky, K., Brignell, A., Morgan, A.T., Gagne, D., Norton, A., Tager-Flusberg, H., Schlaug, G., Shield, A., & Green, J. (2020). Factor Analysis of Signs of Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Journal of Communication Disorders, 87:106033. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32877838/
- Sanchez, K., Boyce, J. O., Mei, C., St John, M., Smith, J., Leembruggen, L., ... & Morgan, A. T. (2020). Communication in children born very preterm: A prospective cohort study. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 62(4), 506-512. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31538339/
- Boyce, J. O., Kilpatrick, N., Teixeira, R. P., & Morgan, A. T. (2020). Say ‘ahh’… assessing structural and functional palatal issues in children. Archives of Disease in Childhood-Education and Practice, 105(3), 172-173. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30567832/
- Unicomb, R., Kefalianos, E., Reilly, S., Cook, F., & Morgan, A.T. (2020). Prevalence and features of comorbid stuttering and speech sound disorder at age 4 years. Journal of Communication Disorders, 84. 105976. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32092590/
2019
- Bowman-Smart, H. Gyngell, C., Morgan, A.T., & Savulescu, J. (2019). The moral case for sign language education. Monash bioethics review, 37(3-4), 94-110. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31760625/
- Boyce, J., Raj, S., Sanchez, K., Marazita, M., Morgan, A.T., & Kilpatrick, N. (2019). Speech phenotyping in unaffected family members of individuals with non-syndromic cleft lip with or without palate. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 56(7), 867-876. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30696259/
- Koolen, D.A., Morgan, A.T., & de Vries, B. (2019). Koolen-de Vries Syndrome. NIH Gene Reviews. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20301783/
- Wearne, T., Anderson, V., Catroppa, C., Morgan, A.T., Ponsford, J., Tate, R., Ownsworth, T., Togher, L., Fleming, J., Douglas, J., Docking, K., Sigmundsdottir, L., Francis, H., Honan, C., & McDonald, S. (2020). Psychosocial functioning following moderate-to-severe pediatric traumatic brain injury: recommended outcome instruments for research and remediation studies. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 1-15. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30296904/
- Johnson, J.L., Stoica, L., Liu, L., Zhu, P.J., Bhattacharya, A., Buffington, S., Huq, R., Eissa, N.T., Larsson, O., Porse, B.T., Domingo, D., Nawaz, U., Carroll, R., Jolly, L., Scerri, T.S., Yyung-Goo, K., Brignell, A., Coleman, M.J., Braden, R., Kini, U., Jackson, V., Baxter, A., Bahlo, M., Scheffer, I.E., Amor, D.J., Hildebrand, M.S., Bonnen, P.E., Beeton, C., Gecz, J., Morgan, A.T., Costa-Mattioli, M. (2019). Inhibition of Upf2-dependent nonsense-mediated decay leads to behavioural and neurophysiological abnormalities by activating the immune response. Neuron, 104(4), 665-679.e8. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31585809/
- Pigdon, L., Wilmott, C., Reilly, S., Conti-Ramsden, G., Gaser, C., Connelly, A., Morgan, A.T. (2019). Grey matter volume in developmental speech and language disorder. Brain Structure and Function, 224(9), 3387-3398. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627319307330
- Sanchez, K., Brignell, A., & Morgan, A.T. (2019). Preliminary evidence supports a range of speech sound interventions, but higher-quality studies are needed. Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17489539.2019.1645982
- Eising, E., Carrion-Castillo, A., Vino, A., Strand, E.A., Jakielski, K.J., Scerri, T.S., Hildebrand, M.S., Webster, R., Ma, A., Mazoyer, B., Frankcs, C., Bahlo, M., Scheffer, I.E., Morgan, A.T., Shriberg, L.D., & Fisher, S.E. (2019). A set of regulatory genes co-expressed in embryonic human brain is implicated in disrupted speech development. Molecular Psychiatry, 24(7), 1065-1078. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29463886/
- Sanchez, K., Brignell, A., & Morgan, A.T. (2019). Preliminary evidence supports a range of speech sound interventions, but higher-quality studies are needed. Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention, 13(4), 181-186. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17489539.2019.1645982
- Beal, B., Hayes, I., McGaughran, J., Amor, D.J., Miteff, C., Jackson, V., van Reyk, O., Subramanian, G., Hildebrand, M.S., Morgan, A.T., & Goel, H. (2019). Expansion of phenotype of DDX3X syndrome: Six new cases. Clinical Dysmorphology, 28(4), 169-174. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31274575/
- Boyce, J., Morgan, A.T., & Kilpatrick, N. (2019). Speech phenotyping in unaffected family members of individuals with non-syndromic cleft lip with or without palate. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 56(7), 867-876. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30696259/
- Boyce, J.O., Sanchez, K., Amor, D.J., Reilly, S., Da Costa, A., Kilpatrick, N., & Morgan, A.T. (2019). Exploring the speech and language of individuals with non-syndromic submucous cleft palate: a preliminary report. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 54(5), 767-778. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31045304/
- Turner, S.J., Vogel, A.P., Parry-Fielder, B., Campbell, R., Scheffer, I.E., & Morgan, A.T. (2019). Looking to the future: speech, language and academic outcomes in an adolescent with childhood apraxia of speech. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 71(5-6), 203-215. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31330526/
- Northam, G.B., Morgan, A.T., Fitzsimmons, S., Baldeweg, T., & Liégeois, F.J. (2019). Corticobulbar tract injury, oromotor impairment and language plasticity in adolescents born preterm. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13(45), 1-7. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30837853/
- Chenausky, K., Brignell, A., Morgan, A.T., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2019). Motor speech impairment predicts expressive language in minimally verbal, but not low verbal, individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Autism and Developmental Language Impairments, 4, 1-12. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=Select Pubmed ID&dopt=Abstract
- St John, M., Ponchard, C., van Reyk, O., Mei, C., Pigdon, L., Amor, D., & Morgan, A.T. (2019). Speech and language in children with Klinefelter syndrome. Journal of Communication Disorders, 78, 84-96. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30822601/
- Liegeois, F., Mei, C., Pigdon, L., Lee, K.J., Stojanowski, B., Mackay, M., & Morgan, A.T. (2019). Speech and Language Impairments After Childhood Arterial Ischemic Stroke: Does Hemisphere Matter? Pediatric Neurology, 92, 55-59. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30594525/
- Sanchez, K., & Morgan, A.T. (2019). Music therapy for neurodevelopment in hospitalised infants. Acta Paediatrica, 108(5), 784-786. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30828858/
- Khan, K., Zech, M., Morgan, A.T., Amor, D.J., Skorvanek, M., Khan, T.N., Hildebrand, M.S., Jackson, V.E., Scerri, T.S., Coleman, M., Rigbye, K.A., Scheffer, I.E., Bahlo, M., Wagner, M., Lam, D.D., Berutti, R., Havránková, P., Fečíková, A., Strom, T.M., Han, V., Dosekova, P., Gdovinova, Z., Laccone, F., Jameel, M., Mooney, M.R., Baig, S.M., Jech, R., Davis, E.E., Katsanis, N., & Winkelmann, J. (2019). Recessive variants in ZNF142 cause a complex neurodevelopmental disorder with intellectual disability, speech impairment, seizures, and dystonia. Genetics in Medicine, 21(11), 2532-2542. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31036918/
- Ttofari Eecen, K., Eadie, P., Morgan, A.T., & Reilly, S. (2019). Validation of Dodd's Model for differential diagnosis of childhood speech sound disorders: A longitudinal community cohort study. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 61(6), 689-696. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30151900/
- Sanchez, K., Spittle, A.J., Cheong, J.L.Y., Thompson, D.K., Doyle, L.W., Anderson, P.J., & Morgan, A.T. (2019). Language in two-year-old children born preterm and term: A cohort study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 104(7), 647-652. https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/7/647
- Braden, R., Leventer, R., Jansen, A., Scheffer, I.E., & Morgan, A.T. (2019). Speech and language in bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria, A systematic review. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 61(10), 1145-1152. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30680716/
- Sanchez, K., Morgan, A.T., Slattery, J.M., Olsen, J.E., Lee, K.J., Anderson, P.J., Thompson, D.K., Doyle, L.W., Cheong, J.L.Y., & Spittle, A.J. (2019). Erratum to “Neuropredictors of oromotor feeding impairment in 12 month-old children”. Early Human Development, 128: 49-55. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30262182/
- Liegeois, F., Turner, S.J., Mayes, A., Bonthrone, A., Boys, A., Parry-Fielder, B., Mandelstam, S., Spencer-Smith, M., Connelly, A., & Morgan, A.T. (2019). Dorsal language stream anomalies in an inherited speech disorder. Brain, 142(4), 966-977. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30796815/
- Brignell, A., May, T., Morgan, A.T., & Williams, K. (2019). Predictors and growth in receptive vocabulary from 4 to 8 years in children with and without autism spectrum disorder: A population-based study. Autism, 23(5), 1322-1334. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30458626/
- Dodd, B., Ttoffari-Eecen, T., Brommeyer, K., Reilly, S., & Morgan, A.T. (2019). Delayed and disordered development of articulation and phonology between four and seven years. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 34(2), 87-99. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0265659017735958
2018
- Boyce, J.O., Kilpatrick, N., Teixeira, R.P., & Morgan, A.T. (2018). Say ‘ahh’…assessing structural and functional palatal issues in children. British Medical Journal: Archives of Disease in Childhood Education and Practice edition. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30567832/
- Morgan, A.T., van Haaften, L., van Hulst, K., Edley, C., Mei, C., Tan, T., Amor, D., Fisher, S., & Koolen, D.A. (2018). Early speech development in Koolen de Vries Syndrome limited by oral praxis and hypotonia. European Journal of Human Genetics, 26(1), 75-84. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29225339/
- Sanchez, K., Morgan, A.T., & Spittle, A. (2018). The effects of music on hopsitalised preterm neonates. Acta Paediatrica, 107(8), 1473. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29799639/
- Mei, C., Fedorenko, E., Amor, D., Boys, A., Hoeflin, C., Carew, P., Burgess, T., Fisher, S., & Morgan, A.T. (2018). Deep phenotyping of speech and language skills in individuals with 16p11.2 deletion. European Journal of Human Genetics, 26(5), 676-686. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29445122/
- Kurth, F., Luders, E., Pigdon, L., Conti-Ramsden, G., Reilly, S., & Morgan, A.T. (2018). Altered gray matter volumes in language-associated regions in children with developmental language disorder and speech sound disorder. Developmental Psychobiology, 60(7), 814-824. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30101474/
- Wearne, T., Anderson, V., Catroppa, C., Morgan, A.T., Ponsford, J., Tate, R., Ownsworth, T., Togher, L., Fleming, J., Douglas, J., Docking, K., Sigmundsdottir, L., Francis, H., Honan, C., & McDonald, S. (2018). Psychosocial functioning following moderate-to-severe pediatric traumatic brain injury: recommended outcome instruments for research and remediation studies. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 1-15. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30296904/
- Brignell, A., Chenausky, K. V., Song, H., Zhu, J., Suo, C., & Morgan, A. T. (2018). Communication interventions for autism spectrum disorder in minimally verbal children. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (11). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30395694/
- Mürner-Lavanchy, I., Kelly, C., Reidy, N., Doyle, L., Lee, K., Inder, T., Thompson, D., Morgan, A.T., & Anderson, P.J. (2018). White matter microstructure is associated with language in children born very preterm. NeuroImage: Clinical, 20, 808-822. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30268990/
- Brignell, A., Morgan, A.T., Woolfenden, S., Jachno, K., Klopper, F., May, T., Sarkozy, V., & Williams, K. (2018). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prognosis of language outcomes for individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 3, 1-19. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2396941518767610
- Morgan, A.T., & Webster, R. (2018). Aetiology of childhood apraxia of speech: A clinical practice update for paediatricians. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 54(10), 1090-1095. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30294994/
- Dodd, B., Reilly, S., Ttoffari Eecen, K., & Morgan, A.T. (2018). Articulation or phonology? Evidence from longitudinal error data. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 32(11), 1027-1041. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29969299/
- Brignell, A., St John, M., Bruce, A., Dinale, C., Pigdon, L., Hildebrand, M., Amor, D., & Morgan, A.T. (2018). Characterization of speech and language phenotype in children with NRXN1 deletions. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B, 177(8), 700-708. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30358070/
- Sanchez, K., Boyce, J., Morgan, A.T., & Spittle, A. (2018). Feeding behavior in three-year-old children born <30 weeks and term-born peers. Appetite, 130, 117-122. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30092233/
- Boyce, J., Kilpatrick, N., & Morgan, A.T. (2018). Speech and language characteristics in individuals with non-syndromic submucous cleft palate: A systematic review. Child: Care, Health and Development, 44(6), 818-831. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30136310/
- Morgan, A.T., Murray, E., & Liegeois, F. (2018). Interventions for childhood apraxia of speech. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (CD006278), 1-76. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29845607/
- Morgan, A.T., Su, M., Reilly, S., Conti-Ramsden, G., Connelly, A., & Liegeois, F. (2018). A brain marker for developmental speech disorder. Journal of Pediatrics, 198, 234-239.e1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29705112/
- Brignell, A., Williams, K., Jachno, K., Prior, M., Reilly, S., & Morgan, A.T. (2018). Patterns and predictors of language development from 4 to 7 Years in verbal children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 48(10), 3282-3295. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29705923/
- Boyce, J., Kilpatrick, N., Reilly, S., DaCosta, A., & Morgan, A.T. (2018). Receptive and expressive language characteristics of school aged children with non-syndromic cleft lip and/or palate. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 53(5), 959-968. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29968398/
- Sanchez, K., & Morgan, A.T. (2018). The ChOMPS, a new tool to measure oromotor and motor skills for eating and drinking. Acta Pædiatrica, 107(8), 1304-1305. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29655236/
- Reilly, S., Cini, E., Gold, L., Goldfeld, S., Law, J., Levickis, P., Mensah, F., Morgan, A.T., Nicholson, J.M., Le, H., Pezic, A., Tomblin, B., Wake, M., & Wardrop, L. (2018). Data Resource Profile: The Child LAnguage REpository (CLARE). International Journal of Epidemiology, 1-11. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29562305/
2017
- Luders, E., Kurth, F., Pigdon, L., Conti-Ramsden, G., Reilly, S., & Morgan, A.T. (2017). Atypical Callosal Morphology in Children with Speech Sound Disorder. Neuroscience, 367, 211-218. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29102664/
- Morgan, A.T., Ttofari Eecen, K., Pezic, A., Brommeyer, K., Mei, C., Eadie, P., Reilly, S., & Dodd, S. (2017). Who to refer to speech therapy at 4 years of age vs. versus who to ‘watch and wait’? Journal of Pediatrics, 185, 200-204. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28343655/
- Honan, C.A., McDonald, S., Tate, R., Ownsworth, T., Togher, L., Fleming, J., Anderson, V., Morgan, A.T., Catroppa, C., Douglas, J., Francis, H., Wearne, T., Sigmundsdottir, L., & Ponsford, J. (2019). Outcome instruments in moderate-to-severe adult traumatic brain injury: Recommendations for use in Psychosocial Research. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 29(6), 896-916. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28671050/
- Mei, C., Anderson, V., Waugh, M.C., Cahill, L., & Morgan, A.T.* on behalf of the TBI guideline development group (2018). Evidence- and consensus-based guidelines for the management of communication and swallowing disorders following paediatric traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 33(5), 326-341. *Senior and corresponding author. Paper associated with NHMRC endorsed TBI guidelines conceptualized, Chaired and led by Morgan, published in 2017. E-pub ahead of print. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29385009/
- Turner, S., Brown, A., Arpone, M., Anderson, V., Morgan, A.T.*, & Scheffer, I.E.* (2017). Dysarthria and broader motor speech deficits in Dravet syndrome. Neurology, 88(8), 743-749. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28148630/
- Morgan, A.T., Scheffer, I., Fisher, S., & Hildebrand, M. (2017). FOXP2-related speech and language disorder. NIH Gene Reviews. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27336128/
- Brignell, A., Prior, M., Donath, S., Reilly, S., Bavin, E.L., Eadie, P., Williams, K., & Morgan, A.T. (2017). Parent reported patterns of loss and gain in communication in 1-2 year old children are not unique to autism spectrum disorder. Autism, 21(3), 344-356. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27178996/
- Sanchez, K., Morgan, A.T., Slattery, J., Olsen, J., Lee, K.J., Anderson, P.J., Thompson, D.K., Doyle, L.W., Cheong, J.L.Y., & Spittle, A.J. (2017). Neuropredictors of oromotor feeding impairment in 12 month-old children. Early Human Development, 111, 49-55. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30262182/
- Bishop, D.V.M., Snowling, M.J., Thompson, P.A., Greenhalgh, T., & CATALISE consortium (including Morgan, A.T., as member of consortium). (2017). Phase 2 of CATALISE: a multinational Delphi consensus study of problems with language development: Terminology. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58(10), 1068-1080. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28369935/
2016
- Morgan, A.T., Bonthrone, A., & Liegeois, F. (2016). Brain basis of childhood speech and language disorders: are we closer to clinically meaningful MRI markers? Current Opinion in Pediatrics –Neurology, 28(6), 725-730. Invited paper. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27662370/
- Liégeois, F.J., Hildebrand, M.S., Bonthrone, A., Turner, S.J., Scheffer, I.E., Bahlo, M., Connelly, A., & Morgan, A.T. (2016). Early neuroimaging markers of FOXP2 intragenic deletion. Scientific Reports, 6(35192), 1-9. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27734906/
- Sanchez, K., Spittle, A., & Morgan, A.T. (2016). Oromotor feeding in children born <30 weeks compared with term-born peers at 12 months corrected age. Journal of Pediatrics, 178, 113-118. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27609073/
- Duenser, A., Ward, L., Stefani, A., Smith, D., Freyne, J., Morgan, A.T., & Dodd, B. (2016). Feasibility of technology enabled speech disorder screening. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 227, 21-27. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27440284/
- Bishop, D.V.M., Snowling, M.J., Thompson, P.A., Greenhalgh, T., & CATALISE consortium (including Morgan, A.T. as member of consortium). (2016 in press). CATALISE: a multinational and multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study. Identifying language impairments in children. PlosONE, 11(7), e.0158753. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27392128/
- Gudrunardottir, T., Morgan, A.T., Lux, A.L., Walker, D.A., Walsh, K.S., Wells, E.M., Wisoff, J.H., Juhler, M., Schmahmann, J.D., Keating, R.F., & Catsman-Berrevoets, C. (2016). Consensus paper on post-operative pediatric cerebellar mutism syndrome: the Iceland Delphi results. Child’s Nervous System, 32(7), 1195-1203. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27142103/
- Liegeois, F., Clayden, J., Morgan, A.T., & Clark, C. (2016). Anatomy and lateralization of the human corticobulbar tracts: an fMRI guided tractography study. Brain Structure and Function, 221(6), 3337-3345. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26411871/
- Mei, C., Reilly, S., Reddihough, D., Mensah, F., Pennington, L., & Morgan, A.T. (2016). Language outcomes of children with cerebral palsy aged 5 and 6 years: A population-based study. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 58(6), 605-611. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26566585/
2015
- Reilly, S., McKean, C., Morgan, A.T., & Wake, M.* (2015) Identifying and managing common childhood language and speech impairments. British Medical Journal, 350(h2318), 1-10. *All authors contributed equally to this manuscript. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25976972/
- Mayes, A.K., Reilly, S., & Morgan, A.T. (2015). Neural correlates of childhood language disorder: A systematic review. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 57(8), 706-717. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25692930/
- Turner, S., Mayes, A.K., Verhoeven, A., Mandelstam, S.A., Morgan, A.T.* & Scheffer, I*. (2015). GRIN2A: An aptly named gene for speech disorder. Neurology, 84(6), 586-593. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25596506/
- Morgan, A.T., Mei, C., Da Costa, A., Fifer, J., Lederer, D., Benoit, V., McMillin, M., Buckingham, K.J., Bamshad, M.J., Pope, K., & White, S.M. (2015). Speech and language in a genotyped cohort of individuals with Kabuki syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, 167(7), 1483-1492. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25755104/
- Vogel, A., Rosen, K., Morgan, A.T., & Reilly, S. (2015). Comparability of modern recording devices for speech analysis: Smartphone, landline, laptop and hard disc recorder. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 66(6), 244-250. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25676365/
- Morgan, A.T.*, Fedorenko, E*,. Murray, E., Cardinaux, A., Mei, C., Tager-Flusberg, H., Fisher, S.E., & Kanwisher, N. (2015). A highly penetrant form of childhood apraxia of speech due to deletion of 16p11.2. European Journal of Human Genetics, 24(2), 310. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26173965/
- Turner, S., Morgan, A.T., Roulez-Perez, E., & Scheffer, I. (2015). New genes for focal epilepsies with speech and language disorders. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 15(6:25), 1-13. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25921602/
- Sanchez, K., Spittle, A., Allison, L., & Morgan, A.T. (2015). Parent questionnaires measuring feeding disorders in preschool children: A systematic review. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 57(9), 798-807. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25809003/
- Mei, C., Reilly, S., Reddihough, D., Mensah, F., Green, J., Pennington, L., & Morgan, A.T. (2015). Activities and participation of children with cerebral palsy: Parent perspectives. Disability and Rehabilitation, 37(23), 2164-2173. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25586796/
- Morgan, A.T.*, Eadie, P*., Ukoumunne, O.C., Ttofari-Eecen, K., Wake, M., & Reilly, S. (2015). Speech sound disorder at 4 years: Prevalence, co-morbidities, and predictors in a community cohort of children. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 57(6), 578-84. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25403868/