Faculty Director: Meghan Darling-White, PhD, CCC-SLP
Key personnel: Trianna Oglivie, PhD, CCC-SLP
Location: SLHS Rooms 301 and 530
Research Focus: The long-term goal of the P.A.L.S. lab is to develop and validate evidence-based interventions that improve speech production skills in people with motor speech disorders. To address this goal, our lab uses a combination of kinematic, aerodynamic, acoustic and perceptual analyses to examine how physiologic changes to the speech subsystems (e.g., respiratory, phonatory, articulatory) impact speech intelligibility and naturalness. Our current work focuses on respiratory function during speech production in children with cerebral palsy.
Student Roles: Undergraduate students are valuable members of the Communication P.A.L.S. Lab! Our students participate in several aspects of research, including collecting data, analyzing and interpreting data, preparing posters, presentations, and/or manuscripts, and more. With mentorship throughout their time in the lab, students gain experience that supports their understanding of research and its connection to clinical practice.
Student Representative: None
Currently accepting Students? Yes, contact Meghan Darling-White darlingwhite@arizona.edu
Prerequisites: Sophomore status or higher
Preferred Qualifications: None
