Publications
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AAC Papers & Chapters
AAC Papers
Abstract: Purpose: Barriers to effective patient–provider communication increase the risk that a patient will experience a hospital acquired condition (HAC) that will negatively impact the patient’s health outcomes. Providing patients with communication tools can significantly reduce the risks of experiencing HACs. This article describes how barriers to effective patient–provider communication can impact patient outcomes and reports on the incidence of HACs in patients who received assistive technology to address barriers to patient–provider communication. This topic is of critical relevance, as the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically increased the number of patients who face communication barriers and the accompanying challenges encountered by their health care providers. Method/Approach: The researchers compared the number of expected HACs based on previously obtained data to the number of HACs reported among patients who received an assistive technology intervention. Additionally, the impact of COVID-19 on patient–provider communication was discussed through the provision of case descriptions from frontline speech-language pathologists who have worked in COVID-19 intensive care units. Results: The patients who received the assistive technology intervention had a significantly lower incidence of HACs than what would be expected in hospital settings. Clinicians working directly with patients with COVID-19 identified suggestions on how both patients and providers can address the barriers to effective patient–provider communication. Conclusion: A key to better patient outcomes and lower health care costs will require making the provision of communication tools part of the standard of care for all patients facing barriers to communication.
Abstract: Purpose: Establishing services for hospitalized patients with complex communication needs (CCNs) requires identifying and addressing both patient-based and institutional barriers. Although the previous paper (Marshall & Hurtig, 2019) focused on patient-based barriers, this paper addresses overcoming institutional barriers. Method: We present a series of cases to illustrate the institutional challenges in meeting the CCNs of patients in an acute care setting. Results: Each case illustrates how the deployment of augmentative and alternative communication tools required addressing institutional/systems barriers and how critical collaborations help patients with CCNs to more effectively communicate with caregivers and participate in their care. Conclusion: Building a culture of improved patient–provider communication involves establishing a wider range of interprofessional collaborations and shared resources in order to effectively provide patients with CCNs the tools to summon assistance and communicate with their caregivers.
Abstract: Purpose: Establishing services for hospitalized patients with complex communication needs requires identifying and addressing both patient-based and institutional barriers. In this 1st article, we focus on overcoming patient-based barriers. The companion paper (Marshall & Hurtig, 2019) addresses overcoming institutional barriers. Method: We present a series of cases that illustrate both the challenges and some of the solutions that have emerged in addressing the specific needs of individual patients with complex communication needs. Results: Each case illustrates how a dynamic assessment approach was used to allow patients with complex communication needs to more effectively communicate with caregivers and participate in their care. Conclusion: Building a culture of improved patient–provider communication involves more than just providing patients with augmentative and alternative communication tools.
Abstract: Purpose: Many hospitalized patients experience barriers to effective patient–provider communication that can negatively impact their care. These barriers include difficulty physically accessing the nurse call system, communicating about pain and other needs, or both. For many patients, these barriers are a result of their admitting condition and not of an underlying chronic disability. Speech-language pathologists have begun to address patients’ short-term communication needs with an array of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies. Method: This study used a between-groups experimental design to evaluate the impact of providing patients with AAC systems so that they could summon help and communicate with their nurses. The study examined patients’ and nurses’ perceptions of the patients’ ability to summon help and effectively communicate with caregivers. Results: Patients who could summon their nurses and effectively communicate—with or without AAC—had significantly more favorable perceptions than those who could not. Conclusions: This study suggests that AAC can be successfully used in acute care settings to help patients overcome access and communication barriers. Working with other members of the health care team is essential to building a “culture of communication” in acute care settings. Supplemental Material: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.9990962
Abstract: This forum provides some insights into the process of initiating a clinical service to enhance patient–provider communication. It also provides a report of a large-scale clinical trial that introduced augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tools in an acute-care setting.
Abstract: Preventable adverse events (AEs) lead to poorer patient outcomes, added patient suffering and dissatisfaction, longer hospital stays, and billions in additional annual health care spending. Patients facing barriers to communication are 3 times more likely to experience a preventable AE than patients who faced no communication barriers. National data on hospital admissions, incidence and cost of preventable AEs, and the odds ratio regarding the risk of preventable AEs in people facing communication barriers were used to estimate potential benefits of improving patient communication. Reducing communication barriers could lead to an estimated reduction of 671,440 preventable AE cases and a cost savings of $6.8 billion annually. Facilitating patient–provider communication is an ethical and financial imperative. A multipronged approach, including increased awareness of and support for speech-language pathology services, is essential to creating a communication friendly hospital culture, reducing patient suffering, and decreasing the financial cost of preventable AEs. Speech-language pathologists and allied health care professionals play a critical role in facilitating patient–provider communication and improving patient outcomes.
Abstract: The number of patients in U.S. hospitals with limited English proficiency (LEP) is growing. There is a body of evidence that suggests that inadequate patient-provider communication is responsible for a range of adverse events, including death. In recognition of this, the Joint Commission has set standards requiring hospitals to address the communication needs of the diverse hospitalized population. Although the optimal approach for LEP patients would involve having certified interpreters at the bedside around the clock, this is unfortunately not practically or economically feasible. Speech-generating devices (SGDs) can offer patients a means of communicating with their caregivers and an opportunity to participate more actively in their care. The University of Iowa Assistive Devices Lab has developed a series of bilingual communication templates suited for use in acute and critical care settings. They developed these templates for use by LEP patients who are speakers of diverse languages, as well as by Deaf patients who use a sign language as their primary means of communication.
Abstract: In 2012, the Joint Commission issued a mandate that accredited hospitals must take into consideration the needs of patients with complex communication needs. Stemming from this mandate came recommendations for hospitals to collect baseline data of the number of individuals in their care with complex communication needs. This is a demographic study in response to their recommendation. Researchers at the University of Iowa sampled the electronic medical records of patients across 7 days to determine the number of patients who met candidacy requirements for augmentative alternative communication or assistive technology. Our census data indicate there is a significant need for patients in acute care settings to have access to alternative communication and the nurse call systems. The need appears to be greater in the intensive care units,but is not limited to this patient population. Overall, patients had greater AT needs than AAC needs in all locations. We recommend future research to investigate service delivery models to improve communication barriers that may exist between hospital staff and patients.
Summary: Raising the possibility of adapting AAC strategies used with individuals facing long term communication barriers to patients in ICUs facing barriers to communicating with healthcare providers.
Books & Chapters
Hurtig, R.R. & Altschuler, T. (2021) AAC For the individual in the intensive care unit. In Fundamentals of AAC: A Case-Based Approach to Enhancing Communication. Hall, N., Juengling-Sudkamp, J., Gutmann, M.L. & Cohn, E.R. (Eds.) Plural Publishing Inc. San Diego, California. https://www.pluralpublishing.com/publications/fundamentals-of-aac-a-case-based-approach-to-enhancing-communication
Hurtig, R., Nilsen, M., Happ, E.B. & Blackstone, S. (2015) Acute Care/Hospital/ICU-Adults. In Patient Provider Communication in Healthcare Settings: Roles for Speech-Language Pathologists and Other Professionals. Blackstone, S., Beukelman, D. & Yorkston, K (Eds.) Plural Publishing Inc. San Diego, California.
Hurtig, R., Downey, D. & Zubow, L. (2014) Special Chapter: AAC for Adults in Acute Care. In Augmentative & Alternative Communication: An Interactive Clinical Case Book McCarthy, J.W. & Dietz, A (Eds.) Plural Publishing Inc., San Diego, California. https://www.pluralpublishing.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi
Hurtig, R. & Downey, D. (2009) Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Acute and Critical Care Settings. Plural Publishing Inc., San Diego, California. https://www.pluralpublishing.com/publication_aaaciacs.htm
All Publications
Publications (Refereed)
Hurtig, R. & Downey, D. (2023) AAC in Acute Care Settings. In Principles and Practices in Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Fuller, D, R. & Lloyd, L.L (Eds.) Slack Incorporated , Thorofare, New Jersey.
https://www.slackbooks.com/principles-and-practices-in-augmentative-and-alternative-communication/
Hurtig, R.R. & Altschuler, T. (2021) AAC For the individual in the intensive care unit. In Fundamentals of AAC: A Case-Based Approach to Enhancing Communication. Hall, N., Juengling-Sudkamp, J., Gutmann, M.L. & Cohn, E.R. (Eds.) Plural Publishing Inc. San Diego, California. https://www.pluralpublishing.com/publications/fundamentals-of-aac-a-case-based-approach-to-enhancing-communication
Hurtig, R.R., Alper R., Altschuler, T, Gendreau, Gormley, J., Marshall, S., Santiago, R. & Scibilia, S. (2020). Improving Outcomes for Hospitalized Patients Pre- and Post-COVID-19. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups SIG 12, Vol. 5(6), 1577-1585. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_PERSP-20-00144.
Marshall, S. & Hurtig, R.R. (2019A) Developing a Culture of Successful Communication in Acute Care Settings: Part I. Solving Patient-Specific Issues. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups SIG 12, Vol. 4(5), 1028-1036. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_PERS-SIG12-2019-0015
Marshall, S. & Hurtig, R.R. (2019B) Developing a Culture of Successful Communication in Acute Care Settings: Part II. Solving Institutional Issues. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups SIG 12, Vol. 4(5), 1037-1043. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_PERS-SIG12-2019-0016
Hurtig, R., Alper R.M., Bryant, K.N.T., Davidson, K.R., & Bilskemper, C. (2019)
Improving Patient Safety and Patient-Provider Communication. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups SIG 12, Vol. 4 (5), 1017-1027. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_PERS-SIG12-2019-0021
Hurtig, R (2019) Forum on Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Acute Care. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups SIG 12, Vol. 4(5), 898-899. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_PERSP-19-00046
Hurtig, R.R, Alper, R. M, & Berkowitz, B., (2018) The Cost of Not Addressing the Communication Barriers Faced by Hospitalized Patients, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups SIG 12, Vol. 3(3), 99-112. https://doi.org/10.1044/persp3.SIG12.99
Unlu, F., Bozzi, L, Layzer, C. Smith, A, Price, C & Hurtig, R. (2016) Linking Implementation Fidelity to Impacts in an RCT. In Treatment Fidelity in Studies of Educational Intervention. Roberts, C., Vaughn, S., Beretvas, S.N. & Wong, V. (Eds.) Routledge, New York. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315734262
Hurtig, R., Nilsen, M., Happ, E.B. & Blackstone, S. (2015) Acute Care/Hospital/ICU-Adults. In Patient Provider Communication in Healthcare Settings: Roles for Speech-Language Pathologists and Other Professionals. Blackstone, S., Beukelman, D. & Yorkston, K (Eds.) Plural Publishing Inc. San Diego, California.
https://www.pluralpublishing.com/publication_ppc.htm
Hurtig, R., Downey, D. & Zubow, L. (2014) Special Chapter: AAC for Adults in Acute Care. In Augmentative & Alternative Communication: An Interactive Clinical Case Book McCarthy, J.W. & Dietz, A (Eds.) Plural Publishing Inc., San Diego, California.
https://www.pluralpublishing.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi
Zubow, L., & Hurtig, R. (2014). The Use of Rudimentary Vocalizations. Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 23(3), 132-139. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1044/aac23.3.132
Hurtig, R., Czerniejewski, E., Bohnenkamp, L., & Na, J. (2013). Meeting the Needs of Limited English Proficiency Patients. Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 22(2), 91-101. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1044/aac22.2.91
Zubow, L., & Hurtig, R. (2013). A Demographic Study of AAC/AT Needs in Hospitalized Patients. Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 22(2), 79-90. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1044/aac22.2.79
Mueller, V. & Hurtig, R. (2010) Technology-Enhanced Shared Reading with Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children: the Role of a Fluent Signing Narrator. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 15 (1): 72-101.
Hurtig, R. & Downey, D. (2009) Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Acute and Critical Care Settings. Plural Publishing Inc., San Diego, California.
https://www.pluralpublishing.com/publication_aaaciacs.htm
Bentler, R., Wu, Y-H., Kettel, J., Hurtig, R. (2008). Digital Noise Reduction: Outcomes from field and lab studies. International Journal of Audiology, 47(8): 447-460.
Shibata, T. & Hurtig, R.R. (2008) “Prosody Acquisition by Japanese Learners” in Understanding Second Language Process (SH Han Ed.) (Chapter 10). Multilingual Matters, Clevendon UK
Roch, Marie, Hurtig, RR, Huang, T, Liu, J, Arteaga, SM (2007) “Foreground auditory scene analysis for hearing aids” Pattern Recognition Letters, 28 (11) 1351-1359.
Peng, Shu-Chen, Tomblin JB, Spencer L, Hurtig R.R. “Imitative Production of Rising Speech Intonation in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Recipients” (2007) JSLHR, 50(5),1210-1227.
Downey, D. & Hurtig, R. (2006). “Rethinking the use of AAC in Acute Care Settings.” Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 15(4) (3-8).
https://pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.1044/aac15.4.3
Peng, Shu-Chen, Tomblin, J Bruce, Spencer, Linda J., Hurtig, Richard R. (2004). Acquisition of rising intonation in pediatric cochlear implant recipients – a longitudinal study. Elsevier, International Congress Series 1273 (336-339).
Downey, D & Hurtig, RR (2003). “Augmentative & Alternative Communication.” Pediatric Annals, 32(7):467-474.
Roch, Marie, Hurtig, RR (2002). The Integral Decode: A Smoothing Technique for Robust HMM-Based Speaker Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Speech & Audio Processing, 10(5):315-324.
O’Leary, DS, Block, RI, Koeppel, JA, Flaum, M, Schultz, SK, Andreasen, NC, Boles Ponto, L, Watkins, GL, Hurtig, RR, & Hichwa, RD (2002). “Effects of Smoking Marijuana on Brain Perfusion & Cognition.” Neuropsychopharmacology, 26:802-816.
Block, RI, O’Leary, DS, Hichwa, RD, Augustinack, JC, Boles Ponto, LL, Ghoneim, MM, Arndt, S, Hurtig, RR, et. al (2002). Effects of frequent marijuana use on memory-related regional cerebral blood flow. Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior (72)1:1-14.
O’Leary, DS, Block, RI, Flaum, M, Schultz, SK, Boles Ponto, LL, Watkins, GL, Hurtig, RH, et al (2000). Acute marijuana effects on rCBF & cognition: A PET study. Brain Imaging, 11(17): 3835-3840.
Block, RI, O’Leary, DS, Hichwa, RD, Augustinack, JC, Boles-Ponto, LL, Ghoneim, MM, Arndt, S, Ehrhardt, JC, Hurtig, RR, Watkins, GL, Hall, JA, Nathan, PE & Andreasen, NC (2000). Cerebellar hypoactivity in frequent marijuana users. Brain Imaging, 11(4):1-5.
Turner, CW & Hurtig, RR (1999). Proportional frequency compression of speech for listeners with sensorineural hearing loss. J.Acoust. Society of America, 106(2):877-886.
Narayana, S., Hichwa, R.D., Ponto, L.L.B., Hurtig, R.R. and Watkins, G.L. (1997). Construction of a whole body blood flow model for use in positron emission tomography imaging with [15O] Water. J of Pharmacokinetics & Biopharm., Vol. 25 (5).
O’Leary, D.S., Andreasen, N.C., Hurtig, R.R., et al (1997). Auditory and visual attention assessed with PET. Human Brain Mapping, (5):422-436.
Flaum, M., Cizadlo, T., Arndt, S., O’Leary, D.S., Nopoulos, P., Hurtig, R., et. al. (1996). Informing the choice of activation thresholds in fMRI paradigms. NeuroImage, (3):S59.
O’Leary, D.S., Andreasen, N.C., Hurtig, R.R., Kesler, M.L., Rogers, M., Arndt, S., Cizadlo, T., Watkins, G.L., Ponto, L.L.B., Kirchner, P.T., Hichwa, R.D. (1996). Auditory attentional deficits in patients with schizophrenia: A positron emission tomography (PET) study. Archives of General Psychiatry, 53:633-641.
Andreasen, N.C., O’Leary, D.S., Arndt, S., Cizadlo, T., Hurtig, R., Rezai, K., Watkins. G.L., Ponto, L.L.B., & Hichwa, R.D. (1996). Neural substrates of facial recognition. J. Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, 8(2):139-146.
O’Leary, D.S., Hurtig, R.R., Hichwa, R.D., Watkins, G.L., Boles Ponto, L.L., Rogers, M., Kirchner, P.T., & Andreasen, N.C. A Positron Emission Tomography study of binaurally- and dichotically- presented stimuli: Effects of level of language and directed attention. Brain & Language, (53):20-39, 1996.
O’Leary, D.S., Andreasen, N.C., Hurtig, R.R., Flashman, L.A., Torres, I.J., Arndt, S.V., Cizadlo, T.J., Ponto, L.L.B., Watkins, L.G., Rezai, K., Hichwa, R.D. (1995). A positron emission tomography study of modality-specific, spatial attention. Human Brain Mapping (Supplement), p. 191.
Hichwa, RD, O’Leary, DS, Ponto, LLB, Arndt, S, Cizadlo, T, Hurtig, RR, et al (1995). Count vs. Flow: When does it matter? In Quantification of Brain Function Using PET. T Jones, V Cunningham, R Myers & D Bailey (Eds.). New York, NY: Academic Press.
Andreasen, N.C., O’Leary, D.S., Arndt, S., Cizadlo, T., Hurtig, R., Rezai, K., Watkins, G.L., Ponto, L.B., Hichwa, R.D. (1995). Neural substrates of facial recognition. Human Brain Mapping, (Suppl), 1, 31.
Andreasen, N.C., O’Leary, D.S., Arndt, S., Cizadlo, T., Hurtig, R.R., Rezai, K, Watkins, G.L, Ponto, L.B., and Hichwa, R.D. (1995). Short-term and long-term verbal memory: A positron emission tomography study. Proceedings of National Academy of Science, 92, 5111-5115.
O’Leary, D.S., N.C. Andreasen, and R. Hurtig: A Positron Emission Tomography (P.E.T.) study of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) during long- and short-term verbal memory. Society for Neuroscience, 20:1290, 1994.
Hurtig, R.R., Hichwa, R.D., O’Leary, D.S., et al. (1994). The effects of the timing and duration of cognitive activation in [15O]water PET studies. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 14(3), 423-430.
O’Leary, D.S., Madsen, M.T., Hurtig, R., et al. (1993). Dual isotope brain SPECT imaging for monitoring cognitive attention: Initial studies in humans. Nuclear Medicine Communications, 14, 397-404.
Kirk, K.I., Tye-Murray, N., & Hurtig, R.R. (1992). The use of static and dynamic vowel cues by multichannel cochlear implant users. Journal of The Acoustical Society of America, 91(6), 3487-3498.
Rizzo, M., & Hurtig, R. (1992). Visual search in hemineglect: What stirs idle eyes? Clinical Vision Science, 7(1), 39-52.
Hurtig, R.R. (1991). Perception of spectrally compressed speech. Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2, 98-101.
Nerad, J.A., Hurtig, R.R., Carter, K.D., Bulgarelli, D.M., & Yeager, D.C. (1991). A system for the measurement of prosthetic eye movements using a magnetic search coil technique. Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 7(1), 31-40.
Rizzo, M., & Hurtig, R.R. (1989). The effect of bilateral visual cortex lesions on the development of eye movements and perception. Neurology, 39, 406-413.
Zimmermann, G.N., Brown, C.J., Kelso, J.A.S., Hurtig, R.R., & Forrest, K. (1988). The association between acoustic and articulatory events in a delayed auditory feedback (DAF) paradigm. Journal of Phonetics, 16, 437-451.
Rizzo, M., & Hurtig, R.R. (1988). Microsaccades and vision – Reply to Tonkonogy. Neurology, 38, 665.
Rizzo, M., Hurtig, R.R., & Damasio, A.R. (1987). The role of scanpaths in facial recognition and learning. Annals of Neurology, 22(1), 41-45.
Rizzo, M., & Hurtig, R.R. (1987). Looking but not seeing: Attention, perception and eye movements in simultanagnosia. Neurology, 37(10), 1642-1648.
Keidar, A., Hurtig, R.R., & Titze, I.R. (1987). The perceptual nature of vocal register change. Journal of Voice, 1(3), 223-233.
Broselow, E., Hurtig, R.R., & Ringen, C. (1987). The perception of second language prosody. In G. Ioup & S. Weinberger (Eds.), Interlanguage Phonology: The acquisition of a second language sound system. Cambridge, MA: Newbury House.
Collins, M.J., & Hurtig, R.R. (1986). Evaluation of prosthetic devices, in Glattke, T., Collins, M.J., & Harker, L.A. (Eds.), Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Mechanism, Diagnosis and Treatment, proceedings of the Scott N. Reger Memorial Conference, University of Iowa Press, 277-289.
Collins, M.J., & Hurtig, R.R. (1985). Categorical perception of speech sounds via the tactile modes. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 28(4), 594-598.
Faraone, S., & Hurtig, R.R. (1985). “An examination of social skill, verbal productivity, and Gottman’s Model of Interaction using Observational Methods and Sequential Analyses. Behavioral Assessment, 7(4), 349-366.
Tychsen, L., Hurtig, R.R., & Scott, W.T. (1985). Pursuit is impaired but the vestibulo-ocular reflex is normal in infantile strabismus. Archives of Ophthalmology, 103, 536-539.
Brown, C.J., & Hurtig, R.R. (1983). Children’s discourse competence: An evaluation of the development of inferential processes, Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 6, 353-375.
Hurtig, R.R. (1982). Cerebral asymmetry in the strategies used in processing random line stimuli, Cortex, 18, 332-343.
Hurtig, R.R. (1982). Analytic and holistic strategies in the perception of sign, Journal of Visual/Verbal Languaging, 1(1), 31-36.
Hurtig, R.R., Ensrud, S., & Tomblin, J.B. (1982). The communicative function of question production in autistic children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 12(1), 57-69.
Cirrin, F., & Hurtig, R.R. (1981). Accessing mental representations in retarded children. American Journal of Mental Deficiencies, 86(2), 188-193.
Dunlap, G.L., & Hurtig, R.R. (1981). Effects of clausal structure and word frequency in sentence processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 10 (3), 313-326.
Hurtig, R.R., Ensrud, S., & Tomblin, J.B. (1980). Question production in autistic children; A linguistic-pragmatic perspective. In J. Miller (Ed.), The Proceedings from the First Wisconsin Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders. Madison, WI.
Ryan, M.P., & Hurtig, R.R. (1980). Does the structure of the evidence base “cause” verdicts of guilty and innocent? Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 3, 321-361.
Andreasen, N.C., & Hurtig, R.R. (1980). Psycholinguistics. In Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (3rd edition). Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins.
Hurtig, R.R. (1978). The validity of clausal processing strategies at the discourse level. Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1(2), 195-202.
Hurtig, R.R. (1977). Toward a functional theory of discourse. In R.O. Freedle (Ed.), Discourse production and comprehension. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Hurtig, R.R. (1977). Language and thought: The question of linguistic relativity and linguistic universals. In B.B. Wolman (Ed.), Int’l. encyclopedia of psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, and neurology (Vol. 6, pp. 349-352). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Aesculapius Publishers.
Bever, T.G., Hurtig, R.R., & Handel, A.B. (1976). Analytic processing elicits right ear superiority in monaurally presented speech. Neuropsychologia, 14, 175-181.
Bever, T.G., Garrett, M.F., & Hurtig, R.R. (1976). Projection mechanisms in reading, or when the journal review process fails. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 5(2), 215-226.
Bever, T.G., Carroll, J.E., & Hurtig, R.R. (1976). Analogy or ungrammatical sequences that are utterable and comprehensible are the origins of new grammars in language acquisition and linguistic evolution. In T.G. Bever, J.J. Katz, & D.T. Langendoen (Eds.), An integrated theory of linguistic ability. New York: Crowell Press.
Bever, T.G., & Hurtig, R.R. (1975). Detection of a non-linguistic stimulus is poorest at the end of a clause. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 4(1), 1-7.
Bever, T.G., Garrett, M.F., & Hurtig, R.R. (1973). The interaction of perceptual processes and ambiguous sentences. Memory and Cognition, 1(3), 277-286.
Published Reviews
Hurtig, R.R. (1998) (Review) Modeling Sensorineural Hearing Loss, What the world sounds like to 19 million people with partial sensorineural hearing loss. Jestalt (Ed.). Contemporary Psychology. July 1998 43(7):492-493
Hurtig, RR (1996). (Review) Speech, Language, & Communication: Handbook of Perception & Cognition, 2nd Ed., Vol. 11. JL Miller & PD Eimas (Eds.). Ear and Hearing, Oct. 1996, pp. 448-449.
Hurtig, R.R. (1981). (Review) Language and Language Disorders in Children. American Journal of Psychiatry, 138(6), 867-868.
Hurtig, R.R. (1978). (Review) Psycholinguistics without pain. Contemporary Psychology, 33, 825.
Hurtig, R.R. (1977). (Review) Rethinking Symbolism. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 6(1), 73-75.
Hurtig, R.R. (1966). (Review) Sociolinguistic model. American Speech, 41(4), 286-288.
Other Research & Technical Reports (Non-refereed)
Hurtig, R.R., & Brown, C.J. (1985, March). Discourse processing in communicatively impaired children. Easter Seal Research Foundation Publication.
Hurtig, R.R., & Brown, C.J. (1984, November). Report to the Easter Seal Research Foundation, N-8222.
Hurtig, R.R., & Dunlap, G. Parameters of semantic integration in discourse.
Hurtig, R.R., & Dunlap, G.L. An interactive model of meta-linguistic judgments of speech act types.
Faraone, S., & Hurtig, R.R. An examination of the construct validity of schizotypy with MMPI indicators and a semantic differential task.
Dunlap, G., & Hurtig, R.R. (1979). A manual for some commonly used programs for the analysis of judgment data. The University of Iowa.
Hurtig, R.R. Evaluation of the outcome of preschool impairments in language development (proposal in response to RFP, NINCDS). Investigator, site visited, competitive, not funded.
Hurtig, R.R. (1977). Brunelleschi’s Dome: A natural illusion.
Hurtig, R.R., & Reinvang, I. (1976). Spatio-temporal integration in reading tachistoscopically presented words. Educational Testing Service, Research Bulletin 76-11.
Bever, T.G., Hurtig, R.R., & Handel, A.B. (1975). Response biases do not account for the effect of clause structure on the perception of non-linguistic stimuli. Educational Testing Service, Research Bulletin 75-30.
Hurtig, R.R. (1974). some squibs on temporal specification. Educational Testing Service, Research Memorandum 74-24.
Hurtig, R.R. (1974). Abstract ideas: The relation of linguistic time and psychological time. Educational Testing Service, Research Bulletin 74-54.