Speech Production Laboratory

Lab Director

Mission

The mission of the Speech Production Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin is to understand speech production characteristics in languages and in acquisition in young children, in typical developmental circumstances and in circumstances where there is delay or disorder in achievement of expected developmental milestones. Major data analysis techniques include perceptual transcription and acoustic analysis. Lab projects include connected speech and experimental paradigms focused on:

Patterns in adult languages

Patterns in speech acquisition

Children who are developing typically: Cross linguistic comparisons

Children with varying degrees of hearing impairment,

Children with severe and persistent speech disorder and delay of functional origin

Children diagnosed with developmental apraxia of speech.