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Faculty	Research Interests and Labs
Corrin Allen, Ph.D.	Research interests include the investigation of preschool speech and language development in children who stutter and children who are deaf or hard of hearing, interprofessional education, interprofessional practice, as well as the lived experiences of individuals experiencing communication difficulties.
Danika Pfeiffer, Ph.D.	Research studies in the Collaboration in Research for Children’s Language and Literacy Lab (CiRCLL Lab) focus on the topics of: interprofessional education and interprofessional practice, developmental language disorder, early language and emergent literacy interventions, and open science.
Rachel Johnson, Ph.D.	Research studies in the Learning Implementation Neurocognition and Communication (LINC) Lab focus on bridging the gap between research evidence and implementation of person-centered care for adults with acquired communication disorders. The lab focuses on topics of cognition and motor learning in acquired apraxia of speech; implementation science and clinical mentorship to expand augmentative and alternative communication clinical service provision; motivation and patient-centered care; and social engagement and life participation.
Victoria Reynolds, Ph.D.	Research in the) includes the following areas: Voice and voice disorders - Assessment practices in pediatric dysphonia, as well as its impact on wellbeing and educational success, dysphonia related to prematurity of birth, voice in adults and children with asthma and sinonasal disease, and occupational voice use and vocoergonomics Cleft and craniofacial conditions - Early intervention for speech in infants with cleft palate, speech sound intervention in cleft speech characteristics, and feeding in children with repaired cleft palates Stuttering - Person-centered approaches to stuttering
Kimberly G. Smith, Ph.D. CASTL Lab	Research in the CASTL Lab (Communication, Aging, Signal Processing, Technology, and Language) explores how adults process speech, language, and written text and in the presence of communication disorders, such as aphasia. Our research integrates communication science, reading research, signal processing, and technology to better understand language and literacy in adults and to develop innovative approaches to assessment, intervention, and communication participation.

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