Laurel Bruce

Potter, N., Choi, M., Schrock, C., Heinlen, V., Bruce, L., Davis, J., Scherer, N., Eng, L., Finestack, L., Stoel-Gammon, C., VanDam, M., Raaz, C., Armstrong-Heimsoth, A., Kim, Y., & Peter, B. (2026). Novel proactive speech-language intervention is more effective than usual care: Randomized controlled trial of Babble Boot Camp for infants with classic galactosemia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 69(9), 4405-4426. https://doi.org/10.1044/2026_JSLHR-25-00579  

Peter, B., Aggarwal, P., Kim, Y., Bruce, L., and Klein-Seetharaman, J. (2026). Speech and language development of two brothers with Bainbridge-Ropers syndrome: Phenotypic and bioinformatic support for a cerebellar ASXL3 hypothesis. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A 200, 1: 110–128. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.64240.

Chee-Williams, J. L., McNeal, H. F., Cordero, K. N., Bruce, L., Weinhold, J., & Scherer, N. J. (2025). Examining percent consonants correct produced by preschool children with and without cleft palate using the American English Phrase Sample. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal : Official Publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, 10556656251388398. https://doi.org/10.1177/10556656251388398 

Peter, B., Finestack, L., Loveall, S., Thompson, L., Bruce, L., Scherer, N., Stoel-Gammon, C., Davis, J., Potter, N., VanDam, M., Eng, L., & Buckley, S. (2025). Babble Boot Camp for Infants With Down Syndrome: Piloting a Proactive, Caregiver-Led Intervention Designed to Boost Earliest Speech and Language Skills. American Journal of Speech-Langguage Pathology, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_ajslp-24-

Potter, N. L., VanDam, M., Bruce, L., Davis, J., Eng, L., Finestack, L., Heinlen, V., Scherer, N., Schrock, C., Seltzer, R., Stoel-Gammon, C., Thompson, L., & Peter, B. (2024). Virtual Post-Intervention Speech and Language Assessment of Toddler and Preschool Participants in Babble Boot Camp. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 67(9S), 3327–3339. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00687  Received 2024 Editor’s Award for Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Peter, B., Bruce, L., Finestack, L., Dinu, V., Wilson, M., Klein-Seetharaman, J., et al.  (2023).  Precision medicine as a new frontier in speech-language pathology: How applying insights from behavior genomics can improve outcomes in communication disorders.  American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJSLP-22-00205 

Peter, B., Davis, J., Finestack, L., Stoel-Gammon, C., VanDam, M., Bruce, L., Kim, Y., Eng, L., Cotter, S., Landis, E., Beames, S., Scherer, N., Knerr, I., Williams, D., Schrock, C., & Potter, N. (2022). Translating principles of precision medicine into speech-language pathology: Clinical trial of a proactive speech and language intervention for infants with classic galactosemia. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, 3(3), 100119. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xhgg.2022.100119  

Finestack Lizbeth, H., Potter, N., VanDam, M., Davis, J., Bruce, L., Scherer, N., Eng, L., & Peter, B. (2022). Feasibility of a Proactive Parent-Implemented Communication Intervention Delivered via Telepractice for Children With Classic Galactosemia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-22-00107  

Bruce, L., & Peter, B. (2022). Three children with different de novo BCL11A variants and diverse developmental phenotypes, but shared global motor discoordination and apraxic speech: Evidence for a functional gene network influencing the developing cerebellum and motor and auditory cortices. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.62904  

Peter, B., Davis, J., Finestack, L., Stoel-Gammon, C., VanDam, M., Bruce, L., et al.  (2022).  Translating principles of precision medicine into speech-language pathology: Clinical trial of a proactive speech and language intervention for infants with classic galactosemia.  Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, 3(3), 1-12.

Peter, B., Davis, J., Cotter, S., Belter, A., Williams, E., Stumpf, M., et al.  (2021).  Toward preventing speech and language disorders of known genetic origin:  First post-intervention results of Babble Boot Camp in children with classic galactosemia.  American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 2616-2634.  doi:  10.1044/2021_AJSLP-21-00098

Peter, B., Bruce, L., Raaz, C., Williams, E., Pfeiffer, A., & Rogalsky, C. (2020). Comparing global motor characteristics in children and adults with childhood apraxia of speech to a cerebellar stroke patient: evidence for the cerebellar hypothesis in a developmental motor speech disorder. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 1-25. doi:10.1080/02699206.2020.1861103

Peter, B., Potter, N., Davis, J., Donenfeld-Peled, I., Finestack, L., Stoel-Gammon, C., Lien, K., Bruce, L., Vose, C., Eng, L, Yokoyama, H., Olds, D., & VanDam, M. (2020). Toward a paradigm shift from deficit-based to proactive speech and language treatment: Randomized pilot trial of the Babble Boot Camp in infants with classic galactosemia. F1000, 11 March 2019, doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.18062. https://f1000research.com/articles/8-271 

Peter, B., Vose, C., Bruce, L., & Ingram, D. (2019). Starting to talk at age 10 years: Lessons   about the acquisition of English speech sounds in a rare case of severe congenital but remediated motor disease of genetic origin. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 28(3), 1029-1038. doi:10.1044/2019_AJSLP-18-0156

Bruce, L., Lynde, S., Weinhold, J., & Peter, B. (2018). A team approach to response to intervention for speech sound errors in the school setting. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 3(16), 110-119. doi:10.1044/persp3.SIG16.110, Invited Publication