Interdisciplinary Training in Speech-Language Disorders

描述(由申请者提供)：拟议培训的目标 该计划是为言语语言领域的研究人员和学者做准备 儿童和成人的精神障碍。此应用程序请求支持四个 博士后和博士后一人参加跨学科 培训计划，利用各部门的师资和资源 沟通障碍、生物统计学和医学信息学、计算机 科学与电气工程，教育心理学，语言学， 心理学和耳鼻喉科。目前这些系的教职员工 参与对研究至关重要的多个研究项目 学生可获得的体验。拟议的培训计划将为 在言语和语言障碍方面从事学术和研究事业的个人， 目前面临人员短缺的领域。项目中的学生 将能够从许多研究计划中选择轮换，包括 语言发展、语言障碍、语言处理、言语 感知、声学语音分析、语音发展的生理学研究， 语音障碍、语音清晰度的X射线微束研究和神经源性 言语障碍。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of the proposed training program is to prepare researcher-scholars in the field of speech-language disorders in children and adults. This application requests support for four predoctoral and one postdoctoral student to participate in an interdisciplinary training program that draws on faculty and resources in the Departments of Communicative Disorders, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Educational Psychology, Linguistics, Psychology, and Otolaryngology. Faculty from these departments currently interact in a number of research programs that will be central to research experiences available to students. The proposed training program will prepare individuals for academic and research careers in speech and language disorders, a field that currently faces a shortage of personnel. Students in the program will be able to select rotations from a number of research programs, including language development, language disorders, language processing, speech perception, acoustic speech analysis, physiologic studies of speech development, voice disorders, X-ray microbeam studies of speech articulation, and neurogenic speech disorders.