Public Health and Health Professions
Speech Development Laboratory
Led by Susan Nittrouer · Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
What we study
The lab studies how children learn language, focusing on those with hearing loss or dyslexia. They aim to improve intervention strategies for language-learning challenges.
What working here is like
- Clinical
- Human participants
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Poverty-Related Risk Factors for Auditory and Language Deficits in Children
Investigating how poverty affects children's auditory and language development.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Vibrotactile signals can aid recognition of spectrally degraded speech signals
2026 · JASA Express Letters
Tests whether adding low-frequency vibrations to speech helps people with hearing aids understand speech better.
- How auditory development affects language acquisition: Influences of socioeconomic status and gestational age at birth
2026 · PLoS ONE
Explores how early hearing and birth weight affect language learning in kids.
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- Precision of Tongue Control for Task-Relevant Articulatory Goals Diminishes Without Real-Time Auditory Feedback
2026 · Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
Tests whether hearing your own voice helps with precise tongue movements in speech.
- Temporal coordination of articulatory movements across speech segments: Fixed onsets with flexible kinematic trajectories
2026 · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Shows that tongue and jaw movements start at the same time in speech, but the details can change.
- Neural measures of spectral modulation detection
2026
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How to reach out
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