Robert Schum, PhD

Child Development      

Title: Associate professor, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Education: PhD, Clinical Psychology, University of Denver, 1983.

Research interests: Language disorders, autism, selective mutism and hearing loss.

Representative publications:

• Schum R, Sivan A, Benton A. (1989). Use of the Multilingual Aphasia Examination with Children: Norms and Clinical Application. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 3(4), 375-383.
• Schum R. (1991). Communication and Social Growth: A Developmental Model of Social Behavior in Deaf Children. Ear and Hearing, 12(5), 320-327.
• Lodge-Miller KA, Robin DA, Schum RL. (1993). Attentional Impairments Following Closed Head Injury. Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 1(2), 133-146.
• Schum R, Sivan A. (1997). Verbal Abilities in Healthy Elderly Adults. Applied Neuropsychology, 4(2), 130-134.
• Schum R. (1999). The Value of Intelligence Tests in Assessment of Speech and Language Disorders: Non-verbal Tests. Paper translated into Chinese, published in the Proceedings of the First Annual Shanghai International Child Speech and Language Disorder Conference. Shanghai Children's Medical Center, People's Republic of China.
• Simms M, Schum R. (2000). Preschool Children with Atypical Patterns of Development. Pediatrics in Review, 21 (5), 147-158.

Contact information: 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226. Phone: (414) 266-2994. Fax: (414) 266-2292. E-mail: rschum@mcw.edu.