There is a lack of reliable and valid prosodic assessments in the field of communciation sciences and disorders. The overaraching goal of this project is to create a naturalistic prosodic assessment. Initial stages of this project analyzed the effectiveness of a current prosodic assessment (work with undergraduate honor's thesis students Rachel Courter) and then the creation of novel, naturalistic lexical stress tasks to assess perceptual and expressive abilities in neurotypical adults (work with master's thesis student Olivia Dempsey, pictured below).
Current directions of this project are to evaluate these new naturalistic lexical stress (NLS) tasks with children with speech sounds disorders (work with master's thesis student Rachel Courter). Future work aims to create a comprehensive and naturalistic assessment of prosody for clinical use.
Former graduate students Olivia Dempsey and Rachel Courter completed Master's Theses as part of the larger Prosodic Assessment project.
