New year, new paper! 🎉

Be sure to check this one out!

As a former student and clinician who often poked around on @carolinebowen.bsky.social website (aka treasure trove) of resources on #childSPEECHdis to gain insight, it is such an honor for this paper to be featured on the site as a resource for clinicians! What a way to close out 2025, cheers!! 🥳🥂

Let's Be Friends: Peer Perceptions of Disordered Speech in Preschool and Early School-Aged Children Purpose: Children attend to speech variation to inform a variety of linguistic and social judgments about a talker. Communication impairments, su...

Annoyed with family over the holidays and need a break? Check out my new paper available open access from AJSLP that highlights the social impacts of SSD in young children!

#phdlife #CSD #Research #SLP
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If you’re at ASHA, you should come to one of my talks on Friday! I’m looking forward to sharing data before one of these comes out as a paper, and both are relevant for school SLPs working with preschool and early school-age populations! #ASHA2025 #SchoolSLP #ASHA #SLP #SLP2Be #SLPLife #PhDLife

It was really fun learning about twang with my lab mate! Please check out the article and learn about the perceptual advantages of twang in real-world listening environments!

The Dolly Parton Effect? Why Twangy Voices Prevail In Noisy Environments Twangy voices are easier to understand than neutral ones in traffic noise, especially for female speakers. New research explains the effect.

The Dolly Parton Effect? Why Twangy Voices Prevail In Noisy Environments studyfinds.org/tdolly-parton-effect-tim... #abovethefold

What Is the ‘Dolly Parton Effect’ and Does It Actually Work? If the great Dolly Parton ever shouted directions at you in a hurricane, chances are you’d understand every word...

Wild what people come up with when reading an article… Cool to see some of our work hitting the “news” circuit though!

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Summer Photo Dump, Failure to Launch, and Leadership Growth So many things have happened since the last blog post that I can't get to everything, but I will hit the highlights. Also, I had to have fuchsia as the thumbnail, because these beautiful flowers are a...

Excited to share my latest blog post! So much has happened this summer and even more good things are in the works... Dive in here: wix.to/anClfvM #LeadershipDevelopment #Summer #BlogPost

This stuff happens when people who don’t like or know science, try to be experts… pure ignorance…

So fortunate to have such an amazing mentor and advisor!

It will be great to someday look back at my PhD training and all of the wonderful experiences I have had because of Tessa and @asa-news.bsky.social 🥹

Thanks for the rec! I definitely have to focus on finishing my prospectus first, but I’ll be glad to revisit this soon!

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When that first manuscript rejection hits 🫠

In actuality, I’m really excited that I tried for a new audience, and I feel like the feedback was constructive and positive! After a grounding nap, it’ll be time to work on revisions and move forward!

Here’s to the first of [not too] many rejections 🍻

The Speech Perception Lab is heading to the West coast this week for #ASHA2024 in Seattle! If you aren’t busy on Thursday at 4pm, join me in Arch-213 (lvl 2) to hear about how linguistic complexity and noise influence the perception of L1 and L2 English accent!
#slpeeps #bskyspeechies

If you’re headed to #psynom24, you should check out Tessa’s talk during Speech Perception I on Friday morning at 8:40 in the Lyceum Complex. She’ll be sharing some new data on our accent distance perception project, which is (excitingly) nearing completion!

Sharing this alternative link to the Speech and Language Therapy starter pack. Let me know if you should be added! go.bsky.app/QKf7XWq

Please add me, thanks!

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Less than a day on here, and I’ve noticed that instead of random bots following me every day there are REAL people who I’m actually interested in interacting with!

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Happily shifting away from X… hope to share some research updates soon! Until then, there’s this: