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