Notes on Contributors
Hermann Ackermann has a Master’s degree in philosophy and psychology, and a medical degree (speciality: clinical neurology and neurophysiology). Besides his clinical training in the field of neurology, he did postgraduate work, especially on Parkinsonian and cerebellar dysarthria in the laboratory of Professor Wolfram Ziegler, Departments of Neuropsychology at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, and the City Hospital Bogenhausen, Munich. Since 1996, he has been Professor of Neurological Rehabilitation at the Medical School, University of Tübingen, and head of the Research Group Neurophonetics at the HERTIE‐Institute for Clinical Neurosciences, University of Tübingen. He is also head of the Department of Neurological Rehabilitation at the Rehabilitation Center Hohenurach, Bad Urach, associated with the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on the brain correlates of speech production and speech perception, using functional magnetic resonance imaging and magnetoencephalography.
Elena Babatsouli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the founding co‐editor of the Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, President of the Association of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, and founder of the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech. She received a BA in English from Royal Holloway, University of London, an MA in Languages and Business from London South Bank University, and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Crete. Elena’s research interests are on child/adult bilingual and monolingual (cross‐linguistically) phonological acquisition and assessment, second‐language acquisition, speech sound disorders, culturally responsive practices in speech and language sciences, phonetics/phonology, morphology, psycholinguistics, clinical linguistics, and measures/quantitative methods. She has thirty publications, five edited books, three conference proceedings, and two edited special issues in journals.
Martin J. Ball is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University, Wales, having previously held positions in Wales, Ireland, the US, and Sweden. He holds a PhD from the University of Wales, and a DLitt from Bangor University. He co‐edits the journals Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics and Journal of Multilingual and Bilingual Speech, as well as book series for Multilingual Matters and Equinox Publishers. He has published widely in communication disorders, phonetics, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and Welsh linguistics. Recently he completed co‐editing the four‐volume Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders for Sage publishers. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, and a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He currently lives in Cork, Ireland.
Margaret Lehman Blake, PhD, CCC‐SLP, is a Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Houston. She earned her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. Her research focuses on cognitive‐communication disorders associated with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD), to understand the underlying deficits and to develop treatments. She has authored many articles, chapters, and the book The Right Hemisphere and Disorders of Cognition and Communication. She has presented nationally and internationally on evidence‐based practice for disorders associated with RHD. She is a recipient of the University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award and has served as the President of the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders & Sciences (ANCDS).
Stephanie A. Borrie, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Communication Disorders at Utah State University. She is also the director of the Human Interaction Lab, which takes a dyadic approach to the study of speech communication. Her research investigates how listeners understand and adapt to speakers with dysarthria, laying the groundwork for listener‐targeted interventions to improve intelligibility of dysarthric speech. She also investigates the coordinative nature of spoken dialog, extending the study of speech impairment to the realm of conversation. Her research is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (USA). She serves as an editor for the Journal of Speech, Language, Hearing Research, a journal of the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association.
Christine Brennan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she is also a member of the Institute of Cognitive Science and Intermountain Neuroimaging Consortium (INC). She holds a PhD and a clinical MA from Northwestern University, Illinois. She is a certified speech‐language pathologist and a cognitive neuroscientist. As the director of the ANCHAR Lab (Applied Neuroscience for Communication, Hearing, And Reading), her current research examines the relationship between speech sound processing and reading skill in children and adults with and without reading disabilities. She also engages in research examining clinical outcomes for children and adults with various types of learning disabilities, including developmental and intellectual disabilities. Presently, she is the only speech‐language pathologist serving on the professional advisory board for the PRISMS (Parents and