 She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Psychological Association, and was president of the International Association for the Study of Child Language from 1990 to 1993, and of the Gypsy Lore Society 1996 to 1999.She has also served on the editorial boards of numerous academic and professional journals, and was associate editor of "Language" from 1997 to 1999.Gleason was profiled in "Beyond the Glass Ceiling