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Nancy Quick

Research Assistant Professor

nancy_quick@med.unc.edu

Education

  • B.S., Communication Disorders, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  • M.S., Speech-Language Pathology, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  • Ph.D., Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Credentials

  • CCC-SLP

Awards and Honors

  • 2018 Joanne Erwick Roberts Early Career Award, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill 2018
  • 2018 Outstanding Poster Award, Early Hearing Detection and Intervention, Early Hearing Detection and Intervention, Denver, CO (Mentor to Stephanie Berry, Megan Bartoshuk, Ashley McMillen and Crystal Smaldone)
  • 2018 Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Award, UNC-Chapel Hill
  • 2017 National Institute of Health Travel Award for the 38th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI
  • 2016 People’s Choice Award, Three-Minute Thesis, UNC-Chapel Hill
  • 2016 Paul Hardin Dissertation Completion Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill
  • 2016 Plural Publishing Research Award, Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders
  • 2016 Royster Society of Fellows, UNC-Chapel Hill
  • 2015 Future Faculty Fellowship Program, Center for Faculty Excellence, UNC-Chapel Hill
  • 2015 New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarship, ASHFoundation
  • 2015 Linguisystems Student Achievement in Research Award, North Carolina Speech Hearing Language Association
  • 2015, 2014 Sertoma Communicative Disorders Scholarship, Sertoma
  • 2015, 2014 AMBUCS Scholarship for Therapists, AMBUCS
  • 2015 John B. Graham Student Research Society, UNC School of Medicine
  • 2013 Doctoral Fellowship: T32 Interventions for Preventing and Managing Chronic Illness funded by National Institute of Nursing Research, T32NR007091

Funding

Erickson, K. A. (PI) & Greer, C. (PI), Quick, N. A. (Project Manager, 1.0 FTE), Tar Heel Shared Reader. Stepping Up Technology Implementation Award, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, January 1, 2017-2022

Quick, N. (PI) 2019 Junior Faculty Development Award, $10,000, January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Quick, N. (PI), Erickson, K. & Roush, J. 2018 Sertoma Community Participation Grant, $4,986.

Erickson, K. A. (PI) & Greer, C. (PI), Quick, N. A. (Project Manager, 1.0 FTE), Tar Heel Shared Reader. Stepping Up Technology Implementation Award, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, January 1, 2017-2022

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • Quick, N. & Erickson, K., (2019). The most frequently used words: Comparing child-directed speech and young children’s speech to inform vocabulary selection for aided input. 40 pages. Augmentative and Alternative Communication. doi:10.1080/07434618.2019.1576225
  • Quick, N., Harrison, M., & Erickson, K. (2019). A multilinguistic analysis of spelling among children with cochlear implants. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 24, 41-53. doi:10.1093/deafed/eny029
  • Quick, N., & Erickson, K., (2018). A multilinguistic approach to evaluating student spelling in writing samples. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in the Schools, 49, 509-523. doi:10.1044/2018_LSHSS-17-0095 Erickson, K. & Quick, N. (2016). The profiles of students with significant cognitive disabilities and known hearing loss. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 1, 1-14. doi: 10.1093/deafed/enw052
  • Gill, C., Bharadwaj, S., Quick, N.A., Chance, P., Wainscott, S. (2016). From volunteering to academic programming: A case example. Perspectives, SIG 17 Global Issues in Communication Sciences and Related Disorders 1:7-11. doi:10.1044/persp1.SIG17.7 Gill, C., Bharadwaj, S., Chance, P., Quick, N.A., Wainscott, S. (2016). Impetus for change: Speech-language pathology around the globe. Perspectives, SIG 17 Global Issues in Communication Sciences and Related Disorders. 1:3-6. doi:10.1044/persp1.SIG17.3
  • Quick, N. Joint Attention among Preschoolers With and Without Hearing Loss. Technical Session. 2015 American Speech-Language and Hearing Association. Denver, Co.
  • Quick, N. & Erickson, K. Students with Significant Cognitive Disability and Hearing Loss: “Can You Hear Me Now?” Poster Session. 2015 American Speech-Language and Hearing Association. Denver, Co.
  • Quick, N. & Erickson, K. Spelling Derivationally Complex Words: An Error Classification System for Measuring Progress and Planning Treatment. Technical Session. 2015 American Speech-Language and Hearing Association. Denver, Co.
  • Geist, L., Quick, N., Zoski, J. & Erickson, K. Big Words Science Literacy Intervention for Adolescent Struggling Readers. Technical Session. 2015 American Speech-Language and Hearing Association. Denver, Co.
  • Gill, C., Bharadwai, S., Chance, P., & Quick, N. The Children Without: Attitudes, Roadblocks, and Bridges Built on Principles of Community-Based Participation. Paper presented at 2015 American Speech-Language and Hearing Association. Denver, Co.
  • Erickson, K.A. & Quick, N.A. (submitted). The Profiles of Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities and Known Hearing Loss. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.
  • Quick, N.A. & Erickson, K.A. (in preparation). A Proposed Analysis of Spelling Errors in Writing Samples. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Services in the Schools.
  • Quick, N.A. (2013, March). Increasing Cultural Competence in Early Language Intervention with Families that are Culturally and Linguistically Diverse. Paper presented at the 2014 Annual Convention of the North Carolina Speech, Language, Hearing and Language Association, Raleigh, NC.
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