Every field has been impacted by the changes to daily life brought by the pandemic, and speech therapy is no exception. For the last year, I've been involved with a multi-part collaboration with colleagues in my department studying different aspects of these pandemic effects.  Dr. Sabiha Parveen and clinical supervisor Sherri Norton have been interviewing our clients and therapists around the state about impacts of teletherapy and other changes to speech therapy during the pandemic.  Dr. John Tetnowski is leading a study on the impact of wearing masks on stuttering.  Both projects involve several student researchers, and initial results will be presented in talks at ASHA and OSHA this fall. 

My second article with Paul De Decker in Newfoundland has been published in Language and Linguistics Compass. This journal spans linguistic disciplines to reach a broader audience. This paper compares recordings made on various popular consumer devices (smartphones, laptops, iPad) to professional equipment. Fortunately, vowel patterns are pretty comparable across devices, so researchers can collect audio data from afar, even after the pandemic subsides.