Allison Johnson

I am a PhD student in Jan Edward’s Learning to Talk lab. I earned an MS in Speech Pathology from the University of Wisconsin—Madison. My research interests are largely driven by my clinical knowledge and experiences, and I hope my work will inform clinical practices. I am most interested in phonological and lexical development, factors affecting language acquisition in young children, and methods of assessing speech production. I have explored how transcription, perception, and acoustic analyses can be used to better characterize consonants produced by 2-5-year-old children. In the future, I would like to apply these various assessment measures to fully understand differences in speech development due to auditory signal degradation for children with cochlear implants. Advisors: Jan Edwards Collaborators: Jan Edwards, PhD, CCC-SLP, Language Science Center & Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Patrick Reidy, PhD, Callier Center for Communication Disorders, University of Texas, Dallas, TX Benjamin Munson, PhD, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Mary Beckman, PhD, Linguistics Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Marios Fourakis, PhD, Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Dissertation Committee) Rochelle Newman, PhD, Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Dissertation Committee) Yi Ting Huang, PhD,  Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Dissertation Committee) Matt Goupell, PhD, Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Dissertation Committee) Danielle Revai, MS, Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (Student collaborator)