Twitter is a researcher’s paradise. That’s where researchers hang out. And it just feels like being at home. When you’re on there, there’s a lot of other researchers, and I’m also very interested in politics, too, that’s another place where
This interview provides a look “Behind the Science” of the AJSLP article A Randomized Trial of 12-Week Interventions for the Treatment of Developmental Phonological Disorder in Francophone Children. Designing the Study Theoretical Underpinnings The way that we think about speech
One of the cool things of my lab is that there are so many different people. There’s a good number of engineers, a good number of audiologists, but we also interact with people with a background in computational linguistics or
How did you get started in implementation science as a speech-language pathologist and an early-stage investigator? So, it wasn’t something that I knew I was doing when it happened. When I was doing my doctoral research, I happened to write
One of the reasons that you would want to go the implementation science route is that you are actually involving your stakeholders. The people who are going to actually have to do the innovation that you’ve developed, the evidence-based practice.
People think treatment research is just about finding a good method. It’s actually got more value — it can also be used to test theories. And that’s very important. The hardest part, I think is finding the interesting research question
What are you working on? Right now I’d say my career is focused less on specific research questions, hypothesis-driven questions, and more into clinical trials with devices. So we have one NIH grant that’s looking specifically at the development of
Diagnosing a speech motor disorder is very challenging right now for the field. We have paradigms that were developed about 30 or 40 years ago, and we haven’t really changed much as a field. That’s because in many of the
I think one continuing question, and one that we’ve had for a long time is, “Why do older people have difficulty understanding speech?” What exactly changes with age? Is it hearing loss? Is it attenuation from peripheral hearing loss? Is
Noisy data has a high degree of variability and a greater range — of scores, or reaction times, or whatever it is you’re measuring. In a lot of the cochlear implant studies we’re doing now, we’re using eye tracking. So
ASHA publishes four peer-reviewed scholarly journals and one peer-reviewed scholarly review journal pertaining to the general field of communication sciences and disorders (CSD) and to the professions of audiology and speech-language pathology. These journals are the American Journal of Audiology; American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools; and Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. These journals have the collective mission of disseminating research findings, theoretical advances, and clinical knowledge in CSD.
