Prior to faculty positions in Communication Disorders, I worked as a language teacher, a web developer, and a medical Speech Language Pathologist. Early research focused on technology and teaching and involved development of several online teaching sites of non-Western languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Swahili, Wolof, Sindhi, and Hindi. Research in Phonology focused on functional considerations of phonetically conditioned sound substitutions with a landmark publication on "Lenition". Research in Communication Disorders targets clinical linguistics as it applies to clinical measures of intelligibility in adult populations with dysarthria and to accented speech.
I received the PFW Sigma Xi College Science Teacher of the Year Award (2021), the Pippert Research Scholar Award (2022), and the Featured Faculty for Excellence in Research/Creative Endeavor award (2024). Speech Science invited speaker at ASHA 2024.
Editorial Board Member for Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 2: Neurogenic Communication Disorders (2023), and Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 19: Speech Science (2024).
clinical linguistics, intelligibility, phonetics, phonology, acoustics