Illinois
SOCIAL INTERACTION AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
SUPPORTED BY FOCAL POINT
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Treatment study focused on use of computer interaction to facilitate speech (left)

Professor DeThorne and two graduate students in Speech-language Pathology (right)

Current Participants

Focal Point II Organizers:

Julie A. Hengst, PhD
Department of Speech and Hearing Science

Laura S. DeThorne, PhD
Department of Speech and Hearing Science

Ai Leen Choo, ABD
Department of Speech and Hearing Science

Mariana Aparicio Betancourt, Doctoral Student
Neuroscience Program

Additional Faculty Participants:

Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, PhD
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Karrie Karahalios, PhD
Department of Computer Science

Paul Prior, PhD
Department of English

Hedda Meadan-Kaplansky, PhD
Department of Special Education

David Gooler, PhD
Department of Speech & Hearing Science

Tracy Gunderson, CCC-SLP
Department of Speech & Hearing Science

Andrew Moss, PhD
Department of English

Associated graduate students come from diverse backgrounds and a number of different departments including Speech & Hearing Science, Educational Psychology, Special Education, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Neuroscience and Computer Science.

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