Research Statement

 Traditional assessment processes primarily focus on behavioral symptoms, and current treatment strategies often address only these surface-level symptoms. Consequently, current approaches fail to address the heterogeneity presentation of symptoms in speech sound disorder. My research integrates behavioral, acoustic, and imaging methods to identify individual profiles of children with SSDs and use these findings to improve treatment outcomes Traditional assessment processes primarily focus on behavioral symptoms, and current treatment strategies often address only these surface-level symptoms. Consequently, current approaches fail to address the heterogeneity presentation of symptoms in speech sound disorder. My research integrates behavioral, acoustic, and imaging methods to identify individual profiles of children with SSDs and use these findings to improve treatment outcomes Specifically, I am working on developing novel tasks that can assess somatosensory perception, specifically lingual proprioceptive acuity. This addresses a critical gap: methods to assess lingual proprioceptive acuity are limited, and research on the relationship between somatosensory perception and speech motor control is scarce.