Lawrence D Shriberg Author

Lawrence D. Shriberg, PhD, (1939–2024) was Professor Emeritus of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was Principal Investigator of the Phonology Project, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison and conducted research centered on genetic and other bases of pediatric speech sound disorders of known and unknown origin. Goals of the research, using a framework termed the Speech Disorders Classification System, were to develop behavioral markers that can identify biomarkers and explicate the causal pathways of pediatric speech sound dis- orders. Among the many awards he received were Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Alfred K. Kawana Council of Editors Award, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Raymond D. Kent, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include speech development, motor speech disorders, and instrumental methods of speech assessment. He has authored or edited 19 books, including: The Acoustic Analysis of Speech (with Charles Read), Reference Manual for Communicative Sciences and Disorders: Handbook of Voice Quality Measurement (with Martin J. Ball), The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders, and Handbook on Children’s Speech. He served as editor of the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, associate founding editor of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, and associate editor of Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica.

Tara McAllister, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University. She has published over 70 peer- reviewed papers spanning the disciplines of linguistics and speech-language pathology. Her research aims to understand how speech skills are acquired in both typical and clinical populations, and why developmental speech patterns resolve in some individuals but persist in others. She also directs the BITS (Biofeedback Intervention Technology for Speech) Lab at NYU, which develops and tests tools to provide visual biofeedback for persistent speech sound errors in children.

Jonathan L. Preston, PhD, is a Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Syracuse University and is a Fellow of the American Speech- Language-Hearing Association. He has coauthored numerous publications focusing on phonetic, phonological, and neurobiological characteristics of children with speech sound disorders. In his current position, he teaches coursework on phonetics and speech sound disorders, and he conducts clinical research on assessment and treatment of speech sound disorders, including residual speech errors and childhood apraxia of speech.
Marisha Speights, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at North- western University. A speech-language pathologist and pediatric speech scientist, her research focuses on articulatory and acoustic phonetics, child speech production, and early detection of speech disorders. She directs the Pediatric Speech Technologies and Acoustics Research Lab, which uses large-scale speech data, acoustic analysis, and artificial intelligence (AI) to develop scalable tools for automated screening and assessment. Her work bridges clinical practice and technology to improve access to speech and language services for young children. She has taught phonetics and pediatric speech sound disorders for over a decade, and her publications in journals such as PLOS Digital Health, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics feature tools for phonetic transcription and automated analysis of child speech.