Nan Bernstein Ratner, Ed.D.
Nan Bernstein-Ratner, Ed.D., is a Board-Certified Specialist in child language and language disorders, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Honors recipient, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advance¬ment of Science. Her primary areas of funded and published research focus on interactions between fluency and language development/disorder, and the role of adult input/interaction in child communication development. With the late Oliver Bloodstein, she is coauthor of A Handbook on Stuttering; with Jean Berko Gleason, she has coauthored the texts Psycholinguistics and The Development of Language. She co-directs the FluencyBank and other TalkBank initiatives (www.fluencybank.talkbank.org) with Brian MacWhinney.