ScholarWorks at University of Montana

The Department of Speech, Language, Hearing, and Occupational Sciences at the University of Montana engages with the developmental, treatment, and assessment needs of individuals with disorders in speech, language, swallowing, and hearing. Research and creative scholarship from the faculty of the Department include investigations into early speech and phonology development; hearing acoustics; social communication in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder; intensive rehabilitation with individuals with Aphasia; the perspectives of adolescents with Language Impairment and how to facilitate language and motivation in this population; the best practices for how preschool children learn language for early literacy; interventions to promote swallowing improvement; and how language influences reading and writing success in school-age children with and without Language Impairment, Learning Disability, and Dyslexia.