The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and the Graduate School co-host the annual celebration to honor the postdoctoral commu
nity and recognize the scholars, who are joined by their guests, faculty mentors and University leaders.
Taylor Snodgrass, “Beyond the Current Error: What a Child’s Speech History Reveals About Treatment Success.” (Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). Faculty mentor: Jonathan Preston, professor of communication sciences and disorders)
Snodgrass examines why children with residual speech errors—sounds like “r” that persist past the typical age of mastery—respond differently to treatment based on their developmental history. She found that children with an early, broader speech history show smaller treatment gains than those identified later. Her work suggests that speech-language pathologists should consider both developmental history and a child’s ability to notice and work with the sound structure of spoken language when setting treatment expectations.