[12] Completed under the supervision of pediatrician Anna Binkiewicz, Plante's dissertation, "Cerebral configurations among the parents and siblings of language-disordered boys," analyzed the neuroanatomy of four language-impaired children and provided evidence for the theory that language impairments have a genetic basis.
[17] Much of her research at UA aims to develop effective therapies for children with developmental language disorders; this work has been funded by grants from the National Institute of Health.
[24] Plante and her colleagues Tammy J. Spaulding and Kimberly A. Farinella were honored in 2007 for their article, "Eligibility criteria for language impairment: Is the low end of normal always appropriate?
This paper outlined difficulties associated with the use of low scores on standardized tests as a means of identifying children with language impairments, and emphasized how sensitivity and specificity rates may assist clinicians in making accurate diagnoses.
This paper replicated and extended previous research[27] demonstrating the importance of exemplar variation in supporting generalization of the grammatical patterns of an artificial language.
A third Editor's Award came in 2017 for Plante's LSHSS article "Dose schedule and enhanced conversational recast treatment for children with specific language impairment," co-authored with Christina N.