Jason A Whitfield Author

Alison Behrman, PhD (retired), authored the first four editions of Speech and Voice Science. She was an Associate Professor in the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at Lehman College/City University of New York. She received her MA in Speech-Language Pathology from New York University, and her PhD in speech physiology from Columbia University. Dr. Behrman has been the Principal Investigator of two grants from the National Institutes of Health and was a recipient of the ASHA Foundation’s 2016 Clinical Research Grant.

Jason A. Whitfield, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a Professor of Education in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Virginia. He conducts interdisciplinary research examining speech production and speech motor control, with a particular focus on speech communication in talkers with Parkinson disease. He uses a variety of methods and analytic techniques to examine how cognitive-linguistic factors interact with goal-directed and habitual speech motor control. He has taught courses in speech science, neuroscience, instrumentation, and neurogenic communication disorders at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels. Dr. Whitfield has also served in various professional roles, including as the SIG 19 (Speech Science) editor for Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Group and as an editorial board member of the Speech section of Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.