Teresa Pitts, PhD
Department Chair and Associate Professor and Dalton Cardiovascular Center Investigator
Research interests:
- Swallowing and airway protection
- Disordered swallow (dysphagia) and cough (dystussia)
- Therapies to extend quality of life of persons living with neuromuscular diseases
Roxana Botezatu, PhD
Assistant Professor and Bilingualism and Aphasia Lab
Research interests:
- Dynamics of spoken and written word recognition
- The relationship between language production and comprehension
- Error monitoring in speech production
- Bidirectional cross-linguistic transfer
- Desirable difficulties in language learning and rehabilitation
Robin Karlin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
- Speech timing, from how it is represented to how it is implemented by the motor control system
- How the cerebellum contributes to accurate speech timing
- Neuroscience
Elizabeth Kelley, PhD, CCC-SLP
Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor
Early Childhood Language and Literacy Lab
Research interests:
- Effective intervention to improve language and literacy skills in children
- Vocabulary learning in children
- Effective interventions to improve language and literacy skills in children
Stephanie Knollhoff, PhD, CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor and Director of Swallowing and Communication Physiology Exploration Lab (SCoPE)
Research interests:
- Cancer-related communication, swallowing, and feeding
- Dysphagia education for current and future professionals
Caroline (Carrie) Larson, PhD, CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor and Director of Larson Language and Cognition Lab
Research interests:
- Developmental language disorder
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Language
- Cognition
- Neural Function
Laura Morett, PhD
Assistant Professor and Director of Neuroscience of Education Research on Development Lab
Research interests:
- Language acquisition and processing
- Gesture
- Cognition
- Neuroscience
- Sign language
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
Nicholas Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor and Director of Perception, Communication and Development Lab
Research interests:
- Infant and child development
- Perceptual, cognitive and neural processes underlying the perception of complex auditory patterns
- Speech production and perception in the context of caregiver-child interaction
- Music perception
Extra credit for research participation
Many undergraduate SLHS courses offer students extra credit in exchange for research participation. Opportunities change throughout the year, so check the link below for new experiences.
We value inclusion in all areas, but studies sometimes limit participation to specific groups of participants (e.g. bilingual adults, adults with normal hearing, etc.). If you are interested in research participation for extra credit but do not qualify for any active studies, please contact your instructor for alternatives.