Elaine Ballard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1712404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine Ballard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Ballard |
| SIGNATURE | BALLARD E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1221-5829 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The role of early temperament on oral language development of New Zealand children speaking Mandarin or Cantonese
This study investigated the role of temperament in oral language development in over 200 Mandarin and Cantonese speakers in the Growing Up in New Zealand pre-birth longitudinal cohort study. Mothers assessed infant temperament at nine months using a five-factor Infant Behaviour Questionnaire-Revised Very Short Form. They also reported on children’s vocabulary and word combinations at age two using adapted MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development…
Combining community-based system dynamics and design thinking to inform public health intervention: A case study optimizing community-clinical linkage design in Brooklyn, NY
The underlying drivers and outcomes of social determinants of health are dynamically complex, making it difficult to design effective responses. This complexity has inspired a growing number of calls to move beyond mechanistic thinking and use systems science to engage directly with complexity and highlight opportunities for methodological innovation to enhance translation of insight into real world action. This case study describes a methodologi…
Adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives to Saudi Arabic
The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on the challenges of adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) to Saudi Arabic. The paper also describes a pilot study in which MAIN was adapted to Saudi Arabic and provides an overview of the research on assessment of Arabic narratives that used MAIN. Although a Lebanese Arabic version was already available, it is unsuitable for children who speak the Saudi dialect and the Sau…
Introducing a rediscovered source for historical New Zealand English: Thompson (1921)
Creating a public facing dynamic literature map to advance the science in child maltreatment
Systems approaches for uncovering mechanisms of structural racism impacting children's environmental health and development
There is a persistent need to address structural racism in developmental science. • Developmental researchers need more tools to operationalize structural racism. • Child exposures to neurotoxicants occur through structurally racist mechanisms. • System dynamics (SD) can illuminate complex social structures and their mechanisms. • This is an opportunity to integrate environmental health and developmental sciences. Current approaches to identifyin…
Focussing and Levelling in the Auckland Voices Project
Levelling and focussing are well-documented processes, central to the emergence of new dialects, including to the emergence of New Zealand English as a distinct variety in the last hundred and fifty years. We draw on recent recordings from three areas in Auckland to examine the extent to which levelling and focussing continue to be relevant today. Most work on NZ English as a new dialect has concentrated on phonology; we extend the analysis to sy…
New Zealand English in Auckland: A Papatoetoe snapshot
This study acoustically analyses the vowel space of adult New Zealand English speakers from a predominantly Pasifika suburb in Auckland (Papatoetoe). These speakers ( n = 13) are compared to two equivalent groups from non-Pasifika Auckland suburbs, Mount Roskill ( n = 14) and Titirangi ( n = 6). All participants are New Zealand English speakers aged 16–25. There were equal numbers of male and female participants. For the acoustic analysis vowels …
Research to Translation: The Healthy Schools Toolkit and New Approaches to the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model
BACKGROUND: The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model is an evidence-based comprehensive framework to address health in schools. WSCC model use improves health and educational outcomes, but implementation remains a challenge. METHODS: Working with 6 schools in 2 districts in the Midwest, we used a mixed-methods approach to determine the people, systems, and messages needed to activate WSCC implementation. We report on social net…
Using community-based system dynamics modeling to understand the complex systems that influence health in cities: The Salurbal study
We discuss the design, implementation, and results of a collaborative process designed to elucidate the complex systems that drive food behaviors, transport, and health in Latin American cities and to build capacity for systems thinking and community-based system dynamics (CBSD) methods among diverse research team members and stakeholders. During three CBSD workshops, 62 stakeholders from 10 Latin American countries identified 98 variables and a …
Capability Traps Impeding Homeless Services: A Community-Based System Dynamics Evaluation
Continuums of Care (CoCs) are the primary coordinating bodies for homeless services in the United States. However, the complexities involved in delivering homeless services across interagency networks challenges coordination and system improvement. CoC governance, planning, and service provision have received little attention in academic literature, and thus, Continuums attempt to manage complex systems with little guidance. This evaluation appli…
Community based system dynamic as an approach for understanding and acting on messy problems: A case study for global mental health intervention in Afghanistan
Our model highlights important factors that prevent persons with mental illness from accessing services. Our study demonstrates that group model building methods using community based system dynamics can provide an effective tool to elicit a common vision on a complex problem and identify shared potential strategies for intervention in a development and global health context. Its strength and originality is the leadership role played by the actor…
Stigma of persons with disabilities in Afghanistan: Examining the pathways from stereotyping to mental distress
Estimating language skills in Samoan- and Tongan-speaking children growing up in New Zealand
The MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventory (short form) was adapted for Samoan and Tongan speakers in New Zealand. The adaptation process drew upon language samples from Samoan and Tongan parent–child dyads with 20- and 26-month-old children and adult informants. The resulting 100-word language inventories in Samoan and Tongan, plus a single question about word combinations, were then administered to over 600 mothers of 2-year-olds i…
Woods Cree /ð: An Unusual Type of Sonorant
ð/ appears in only a handful of the world’s languages (Maddieson 1984 and Ruhlen 1975). In most of these, /ð/ is classified as an obstruent; however, in Woods Cree this segment exhibits a range of characteristics typical of a sonorant. This paper provides a detailed account of the evidence for /ð/’s status in Woods Cree based on its phonetic realizations, the structure of the phonological inventory, voicing patterns, register variation, and phone…
Stigma of persons with disabilities in Afghanistan: Examining the pathways from stereotyping to mental distress
Using community-based system dynamics modeling to understand the complex systems that influence health in cities: The Salurbal study
We discuss the design, implementation, and results of a collaborative process designed to elucidate the complex systems that drive food behaviors, transport, and health in Latin American cities and to build capacity for systems thinking and community-based system dynamics (CBSD) methods among diverse research team members and stakeholders. During three CBSD workshops, 62 stakeholders from 10 Latin American countries identified 98 variables and a …
Capability Traps Impeding Homeless Services: A Community-Based System Dynamics Evaluation
Continuums of Care (CoCs) are the primary coordinating bodies for homeless services in the United States. However, the complexities involved in delivering homeless services across interagency networks challenges coordination and system improvement. CoC governance, planning, and service provision have received little attention in academic literature, and thus, Continuums attempt to manage complex systems with little guidance. This evaluation appli…
Woods Cree /ð: An Unusual Type of Sonorant
ð/ appears in only a handful of the world’s languages (Maddieson 1984 and Ruhlen 1975). In most of these, /ð/ is classified as an obstruent; however, in Woods Cree this segment exhibits a range of characteristics typical of a sonorant. This paper provides a detailed account of the evidence for /ð/’s status in Woods Cree based on its phonetic realizations, the structure of the phonological inventory, voicing patterns, register variation, and phone…
Estimating language skills in Samoan- and Tongan-speaking children growing up in New Zealand
The MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventory (short form) was adapted for Samoan and Tongan speakers in New Zealand. The adaptation process drew upon language samples from Samoan and Tongan parent–child dyads with 20- and 26-month-old children and adult informants. The resulting 100-word language inventories in Samoan and Tongan, plus a single question about word combinations, were then administered to over 600 mothers of 2-year-olds i…
Community based system dynamic as an approach for understanding and acting on messy problems: A case study for global mental health intervention in Afghanistan
Our model highlights important factors that prevent persons with mental illness from accessing services. Our study demonstrates that group model building methods using community based system dynamics can provide an effective tool to elicit a common vision on a complex problem and identify shared potential strategies for intervention in a development and global health context. Its strength and originality is the leadership role played by the actor…
Stigma of persons with disabilities in Afghanistan: Examining the pathways from stereotyping to mental distress
Using community-based system dynamics modeling to understand the complex systems that influence health in cities: The Salurbal study
We discuss the design, implementation, and results of a collaborative process designed to elucidate the complex systems that drive food behaviors, transport, and health in Latin American cities and to build capacity for systems thinking and community-based system dynamics (CBSD) methods among diverse research team members and stakeholders. During three CBSD workshops, 62 stakeholders from 10 Latin American countries identified 98 variables and a …
Capability Traps Impeding Homeless Services: A Community-Based System Dynamics Evaluation
Continuums of Care (CoCs) are the primary coordinating bodies for homeless services in the United States. However, the complexities involved in delivering homeless services across interagency networks challenges coordination and system improvement. CoC governance, planning, and service provision have received little attention in academic literature, and thus, Continuums attempt to manage complex systems with little guidance. This evaluation appli…
Research to Translation: The Healthy Schools Toolkit and New Approaches to the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model
BACKGROUND: The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model is an evidence-based comprehensive framework to address health in schools. WSCC model use improves health and educational outcomes, but implementation remains a challenge. METHODS: Working with 6 schools in 2 districts in the Midwest, we used a mixed-methods approach to determine the people, systems, and messages needed to activate WSCC implementation. We report on social net…
New Zealand English in Auckland: A Papatoetoe snapshot
This study acoustically analyses the vowel space of adult New Zealand English speakers from a predominantly Pasifika suburb in Auckland (Papatoetoe). These speakers ( n = 13) are compared to two equivalent groups from non-Pasifika Auckland suburbs, Mount Roskill ( n = 14) and Titirangi ( n = 6). All participants are New Zealand English speakers aged 16–25. There were equal numbers of male and female participants. For the acoustic analysis vowels …
Focussing and Levelling in the Auckland Voices Project
Levelling and focussing are well-documented processes, central to the emergence of new dialects, including to the emergence of New Zealand English as a distinct variety in the last hundred and fifty years. We draw on recent recordings from three areas in Auckland to examine the extent to which levelling and focussing continue to be relevant today. Most work on NZ English as a new dialect has concentrated on phonology; we extend the analysis to sy…
Systems approaches for uncovering mechanisms of structural racism impacting children's environmental health and development
There is a persistent need to address structural racism in developmental science. • Developmental researchers need more tools to operationalize structural racism. • Child exposures to neurotoxicants occur through structurally racist mechanisms. • System dynamics (SD) can illuminate complex social structures and their mechanisms. • This is an opportunity to integrate environmental health and developmental sciences. Current approaches to identifyin…
Combining community-based system dynamics and design thinking to inform public health intervention: A case study optimizing community-clinical linkage design in Brooklyn, NY
The underlying drivers and outcomes of social determinants of health are dynamically complex, making it difficult to design effective responses. This complexity has inspired a growing number of calls to move beyond mechanistic thinking and use systems science to engage directly with complexity and highlight opportunities for methodological innovation to enhance translation of insight into real world action. This case study describes a methodologi…
Adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives to Saudi Arabic
The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on the challenges of adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) to Saudi Arabic. The paper also describes a pilot study in which MAIN was adapted to Saudi Arabic and provides an overview of the research on assessment of Arabic narratives that used MAIN. Although a Lebanese Arabic version was already available, it is unsuitable for children who speak the Saudi dialect and the Sau…
Introducing a rediscovered source for historical New Zealand English: Thompson (1921)
Creating a public facing dynamic literature map to advance the science in child maltreatment
The role of early temperament on oral language development of New Zealand children speaking Mandarin or Cantonese
This study investigated the role of temperament in oral language development in over 200 Mandarin and Cantonese speakers in the Growing Up in New Zealand pre-birth longitudinal cohort study. Mothers assessed infant temperament at nine months using a five-factor Infant Behaviour Questionnaire-Revised Very Short Form. They also reported on children’s vocabulary and word combinations at age two using adapted MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development…
Psychology (8 works) · Community Health and Development (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (3 works) · History (3 works)