Steven F. WarrenSteven F. Warren is a senior scientist and Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies. He is also a Professor of Applied Behavioral Science. He was associated with Vanderbilt University's John F. Kennedy Center for Human Development for 18 years as a Professor of Special Education and Deputy Director before coming to the University of Kansas in 2000. Dr. Warren is internationally recognized for his contributions to understanding language development in children and leadership in the field of developmental disabilities. He has conducted extensive research on early communication and language intervention approaches and has published more than 120 papers, chapters, and books on these and related topics. Dr. Warren's major research interests are in the areas of early communication and language development and intervention and the prevention of mental retardation. Over the past 30 years he has investigated the effects of a variety of different communication and language intervention strategies intended for use with children three years and younger with developmental delays. This research has focused on the development of intervention models (i.e. milieu language intervention, prelinguistic communication intervention) and longitudinal evaluation of these and other approaches, the development and application of an overarching theoretical model for understanding the effects of early intervention, and most recently the interaction of early intervention and specific etiologies (e.g. fragile X syndrome, Downs syndrome). For the past several years he has worked with colleagues from several other universities on the development of optimal early intervention for the infants and toddlers of high-risk teen-age mothers. His research has been funded since 1977 by NIH and by the U.S. Department of Education. Along with KU colleagues Marc Fey and Nancy Brady, he recently completed a five-year longitudinal analysis seeking to determine whether prelinguistic communication intervention generates significantly greater effects compared to later language intervention (funded by the U.S. Department of Education). Their study has led to a funded NIDCD investigation of the effects of different intensities of early communication intervention. Fey and Paul Yoder (Vanderbuilt University) are collaborating with him on the longitudinal randomized clinical trial. With John Borkowski (Notre Dame), Judith Carta (Kansas), Susan Landry (U. of Texas Heath Sciences Center), and Craig Ramey, Sharon Ramey, and Bette Keltner (Georgetown University) he is presently engaged in a major (funded by NICHD) prevention study of child neglect with high risk teenage mother with this same population (funded by NICHD). Finally, he is the Principal Investigator of a study on the role of maternal responsivity in the development of young children with fragile X syndrome. This study is part of the Fragile X Research Center (NICHD) shared by the mental retardation research centers at the University of North Carolina and the University of Kansas. Major Honors1992 Fellow, American Psychological Association, Division 33 1999 Recipient of the Theodore D. Tjossem Research Award, National Down Syndrome Congress 2001-2002 President, American Association on Mental Retardation NIH Service1997 -99 Member, Human Development Study Section 3 1999 - 2001 Member, Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes Study Section 6 2002 - 2007 Member, NICHD Biobehavioral & Behavioral Sciences Subcommittee 2003 - 2007 Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, NIH Autism Research Networks (CPEA/STAART) Yoder, P.J. & Warren, S.F. (2002). Effects of prelinguistic milieu teaching and parent responsivity education on dyads involving children with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 45, (6) , 1158-1174. Warren, S.F. (2004). Intervention as Experiment. In M. Rice & S. Warren (Eds.) Developmental Language Impairments: From Phenotypes to Etiologies . (pp. 187-206). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers. Yoder, P.J. & Warren, S.F. (2004). Early predictors of language in children with and without Down syndrome. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 109(4) , 285-300. Warren , S.F., Bredlin, S., Fairchild, M., Finestack, L., Brady, N., Fey, M. (in press). Prelinguistic Communication Intervention. In R. McCauley & M. Fey (Eds). Treatment of Language Disorders in Children . Baltimore: Brookes Publishing. Fey, M.E., Warren , S.F., Brady, N., Finestack, L., Bredin-Oja, S., Fairchild, M., Yoder, P.J. (in press). Early effects of prelinguistic milieu teaching for children with developmental delays. Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research . |
Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies Professor, Department of Applied Behavioral Science, University of Kansas Courtesy Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center President, Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Division (33), American Psychological Association Chair, Developmental Disabilities Research Centers Association
Ph.D., University of Kansas, Child and Developmental Psychology, 1977 M.A., University of Kansas, Human Development, 1975 B.G.S., University of Kansas, Psychology and Human Development (with honors), 1974 Contact: The Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies |
