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Ansari, R., Chiat, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-8981-8153, Cartwright, M. & Herman, R. ORCID: 0000-0001-5732-9999view all authors (2025). Vocabulary interventions for children with developmental language disorder: a systematic review. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, article number 1517311. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1517311

Fu, N. C., Chan, A., Chen, S. , Polišenská, K. ORCID: 0000-0001-7405-6689 & Chiat, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-8981-8153view all authors (2024). Revisiting nonword repetition as a clinical marker of developmental language disorder: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual L2 Cantonese. Brain and Language, 257, article number 105450. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105450

Hamdani, S., Chan, A., Kan, R. , Chiat, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-8981-8153, Gagarina, N., Haman, E., Łuniewska, M., Polišenská, K. ORCID: 0000-0001-7405-6689 & Armon-Lotem, S.view all authors (2024). Identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in multilingual children: A case study tutorial. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27(2), pp. 157-171. doi: 10.1080/17549507.2024.2326095

Fu, N. C., Chen, S., Polišenská, K. ORCID: 0000-0001-7405-6689 , Chan, A., Kan, R. & Chiat, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-8981-8153view all authors (2024). Nonword Repetition in Children With Developmental Language Disorder: Revisiting the Case of Cantonese. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(6), pp. 1772-1784. doi: 10.1044/2024_jslhr-22-00397

Ward, C., Chiat, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-8981-8153 & Townend, G. S. (2021). A comparison of formal and informal methods for assessing language and cognition in children with Rett syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 114, article number 103961. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2021.103961

Polišenská, K. ORCID: 0000-0001-7405-6689, Chiat, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-8981-8153, Szewczyk, J. & Twomey, K. E.view all authors (2021). Effects of semantic plausibility, syntactic complexity and n-gram frequency on children's sentence repetition. Journal of Child Language, 48(2), pp. 261-284. doi: 10.1017/s0305000920000306

Roy, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-5491-7437 & Chiat, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-8981-8153 (2019). The Early Sociocognitive Battery: a clinical tool for early identification of children at risk for social communication difficulties and ASD?. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 54(5), pp. 794-805. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12477

O'Neill, H., Murphy, C-A. & Chiat, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-8981-8153 (2019). What Our Hands Tell Us: A Two-Year Follow-Up Investigating Outcomes in Subgroups of Children With Language Delay. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(2), pp. 356-366. doi: 10.1044/2018_jslhr-l-17-0261

Szewczyk, J., Chiat, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-8981-8153, Marecka, M. & Wodniecka-Chlipalska, Z.view all authors (2018). Nonword repetition depends on the frequency of sublexical representations at different grain sizes: evidence from a multi-factorial analysis. Cognition, 179, pp. 23-36. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.06.002

Haman, E., Łuniewska, M., Hansen, P. , Simonsen, H. G., Chiat, S., Bjekić, J., Blaziene, A., Chyl, K., Dabasinskiene, I., Engel de Abreu, P., Gagarina, N., Gavarro, A., Hakansson, G., Harel, E., Holm, E., Kapalkova, S., Kunnari, S., Levorato, C., Lindgren, J., Mieszkowska, K., Montes Salarich, L., Potgieter, A., Ribu, I., Ringblom, N., Rinker, T., Roch, M., Slancova, D., Southwood, F., Tedeschi, R., Tuncer, A. M., Unal-Logacev, O., Vuksanović, J. & Armon-Lotem, S.view all authors (2017). Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages: Data from cross-linguistic lexical tasks (LITMUS-CLT). Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 31(11-12), pp. 818-843. doi: 10.1080/02699206.2017.1308553

Luniewska, M., Haman, E., Armon-Lotem, S. , Etenkowski, B., Southwood, F., Andelkovic, D., Blom, E., Boerma, T., Chiat, S., de Abreu, P. E., Gagarina, N., Gavarro, A., Hakansson, G., Hickey, T., de Lopez, K. J., Marinis, T., Popovic, M., Thordardottir, E., Blaziene, A., Sanchenz, M. C., Dabasinskiene, I., Ege, P., Ehret, I-A., Fritsche, N-A., Gatt, D., Janssen, B., Kambanaros, M., Kapalkova, S., Kronqvist, B., Kunnari, S., Levorato, C., Nenonen, O., Fhlannchadha, S. N., O'Toole, C., Polišenská, K. ORCID: 0000-0001-7405-6689, Pomiechowska, B., Ringblom, N., Rinker, T., Roch, M., Savic, M., Slancova, D., Tsimpli, I. M. & Unal-Logacev, O.view all authors (2016). Ratings of age of acquisition of 299 words across 25 languages: Is there a cross-linguistic order of words?. Behavior Research Methods, 48(3), pp. 1154-1177. doi: 10.3758/s13428-015-0636-6

Dohmen, A., Bishop, D.V., Chiat, S. & Roy, P.view all authors (2016). Body movement imitation and early language as predictors of later social communication and language outcomes: A longitudinal study. Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 1, doi: 10.1177/2396941516656636

Chiat, S. & Polišenská, K. ORCID: 0000-0001-7405-6689 (2016). A framework for crosslinguistic nonword repetition tests: Effects of bilingualism and socioeconomic status on children’s performance. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59(5), pp. 1179-1189. doi: 10.1044/2016_jslhr-l-15-0293

Boerma, T., Chiat, S., Leseman, P. , Timmermeister, M., Wijnen, F. & Blom, E.view all authors (2015). A Quasi-Universal Nonword Repetition Task as a Diagnostic Tool for Bilingual Children Learning Dutch as a Second Language.. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(6), pp. 1747-1760. doi: 10.1044/2015_jslhr-l-15-0058

O'Neill, H. & Chiat, S. (2015). What Our Hands Say: Exploring Gesture Use in Subgroups of Children With Language Delay. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(4), pp. 1319-1325. doi: 10.1044/2015_jslhr-l-14-0187

Polišenská, K. ORCID: 0000-0001-7405-6689, Chiat, S. & Roy, P. (2015). Sentence repetition: what does the task measure?. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 50(1), pp. 106-118. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12126

Roy, P., Chiat, S. & Dodd, B. (2014). Language and Socioeconomic Disadvantage: From Research to Practice. London, UK: City University London.

Roy, P. & Chiat, S. (2014). Developmental pathways of language and social communication problems in 9-11 year olds: Unpicking the heterogeneity. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 35(10), pp. 2534-2546. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2014.06.014

Polišenská, K. ORCID: 0000-0001-7405-6689, Chiat, S., Comer, A. & McKenzie, K.view all authors (2014). Semantic effects in sentence recall: The contribution of immediate vs delayed recall in language assessment. Journal of Communication Disorders, 52, pp. 65-77. doi: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2014.08.002

Chiat, S. & Roy, P. (2013). Early predictors of language and social communication impairments at ages 9-11 years: A follow-up study of early-referred children. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 56(6), pp. 1824-1836. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2013/12-0249)

Dohmen, A., Chiat, S. & Roy, P. (2013). Nonverbal imitation skills in children with specific language delay. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34(10), pp. 3288-3300. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2013.06.004

Roy, P. & Chiat, S. (2013). Teasing apart disadvantage from disorder The case of poor language. In: Marshall, C. R. (Ed.), Current Issues in Developmental Disorders. Current Issues in Developmental Psychology. (pp. 125-150). PSYCHOLOGY PRESS.

Chiat, S., Armon-Lotem, S., Marinis, T. , Polišenská, K. ORCID: 0000-0001-7405-6689, Roy, P. & Seeff-Gabriel, B.view all authors (2013). The potential of sentence imitation tasks for assessment of language abilities in sequential bilingual children. In: Mueller-Gathercole, V. (Ed.), Issues in the Assessment of Bilinguals. (pp. 56-89). UK: Mulitlingual Matters.

Myers, L., Davies-Jones, C., Chiat, S. , Joffe, V. & Botting, N.view all authors (2011). "A place where I can be me": a role for social and leisure provision to support young people with language impairment. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 46(6), pp. 739-750. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-6984.2011.00048.x

Seeff-Gabriel, B., Chiat, S. & Dodd, B. (2010). Sentence imitation as a tool in identifying expressive morphosyntactic difficulties in children with severe speech difficulties. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 45(6), pp. 691-702. doi: 10.3109/13682820903509432

Gallagher, A. L. & Chiat, S. (2009). Evaluation of speech and language therapy interventions for pre-school children with specific language impairment: a comparison of outcomes following specialist intensive, nursery-based and no intervention. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 44(5), pp. 616-638. doi: 10.1080/13682820802276658

Chiat, S. & Roy, P. (2008). Early phonological and sociocognitive skills as predictors of later language and social communication outcomes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49(6), pp. 635-645. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2008.01881.x

Newton, C., Chiat, S. & Hald, L. (2008). Evaluation of a novel technique for assessing speech discrimination in children. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 22(4-5), pp. 325-333. doi: 10.1080/02699200801919117

Chiat, S. & Roy, P. (2007). The preschool repetition test: An evaluation of performance in typically developing and clinically referred children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50(2), pp. 429-443. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2007/030)

Roy, P. & Chiat, S. (2004). A prosodically controlled word and nonword repetition task for 2- to 4- year-olds: Evidence from typically developing children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47(1), pp. 223-234. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2004/019)