Raymond D Kent Author

Dr. Shriberg, PhD, CCC-SLP, F-ASHA, is a Professor Emeritus of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is Principal Investigator of the Phonology Project, Communicative and Cognitive Sciences Unit, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Shriberg's research is centered on genetic and other origins of pediatric speech sound disorders.

Raymond D. Kent, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His publications include more than 250 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews on various topics in speech science and speech pathology. He has authored or edited 18 books, including: Clinical Phonetics (with L. D. Shriberg), Intelligibility in Speech Disorders, The Acoustic Analysis of Speech (with C. Read), Reference Manual for Communicative Sciences and Disorders: Speech-Language Pathology, The Speech Sciences, Handbook of Voice Quality Measurement (with M. J. Ball), and The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders. 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. His awards include: Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association; Docteur Honoris Causa from the Université de Montréal; Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland, Australia; Visiting Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oulu, Finland.

Tara McAllister, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an Associate Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University. She is a certified speech-language pathologist with degrees in linguistics from Harvard and MIT. Dr. McAllister’s 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. Since 2012, Dr. McAllister has led NIH-supported research investigating acoustic and ultrasound biofeedback intervention for residual speech sound disorder.

Jonathan L. Preston, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an Associate Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Syracuse University. His teaching interests include clinical aspects of phonetics, phonology, and speech sound disorders. His research focuses on neurolinguistically-motivated and evidence based treatments for speech sound disorders. He is conducts clinical trials to study treatments primarily for children with persisting speech sound errors as well as childhood apraxia of speech. 

Marisha L. Speights, PhD, CCC-SLP,  is an assistant professor at Northwestern University. Her research spans the areas of articulatory and acoustic phonetics, child speech production and disorders, and child speech intelligibility.