Interdisciplinary Training in Speech-Language Disorders

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议培训的目的 该计划是准备在语音语言领域的研究学者 儿童和成人的疾病。此应用程序请求支持四个 博士前和一名博士后学生参加跨学科 培训计划，利用教师和资源的部门， 沟通障碍，生物统计学和医学信息学，计算机 科学和电气工程，教育心理学，语言学， 心理学和耳鼻喉科。目前，这些部门的教师 在一些研究项目中进行互动，这些项目将是研究的核心 提供给学生的经验。培训计划将为 个人在言语和语言障碍的学术和研究事业， 这是一个目前面临人员短缺的领域。该计划的学生 将能够从一些研究项目中选择轮换，包括 语言发育，语言障碍，语言加工，言语 感知，语音声学分析，语音发育的生理学研究， 语音障碍，语言清晰度的X射线微束研究， 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.