{"id":35506,"date":"2025-06-30T21:21:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T01:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/?post_type=ud_entry&#038;p=35506"},"modified":"2025-06-30T21:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T01:21:47","slug":"nancy-quick","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/people\/nancy-quick\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Quick, PhD, CCC-SLP"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":35507,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[36],"class_list":["post-35506","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-clds","odd"],"acf":[],"ud_entry_custom_fields":{"ud_last_name":"Quick","ud_first_name":"Nancy","ud_gallery_summary":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">My research is focused on improving language and literacy outcomes for children with significant intellectual and developmental disabilities (SIDD), including those who are also deaf and hard of hearing. I was first hired as the Project Director of a 5-year U.S. Department of Education grant, Tar Heel Shared Reader, which involved the development of a complete implementation model that supported 316 professionals in providing shared reading to 442 students with SIDD, most of whom required augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). In my role as project director, I led several sub-studies that examined: a) the quality of teacher interactions during shared reading; b) the impact of training on teacher use of shared reading strategies, and; c) the impact of shared reading with AAC modeling on the communication of students with SIDD who require AAC. In ongoing work on Project Converse, funded by the Engelke Family Foundation, I am leading several studies involving detailed microanalysis of videos documenting classroom interactions during literacy instruction with children with SIDD who require AAC. One such study in press applies conversation analysis to examine growth in expressive language and communication of children with SIDD-AAC over the course of a year as a result of shared reading with AAC modeling of core vocabulary. While successfully directing a large implementation project and leading the publication of several related manuscripts, I secured funding as the PI for a foundation grant and an internal award. 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