Anne Smith, Ph.D, is
Distinguished Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing
Sciences at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. She
has studied the physiological bases of speech in normally
fluent speakers and in those who stutter for more than two
decades. Her current focus is on speech motor development
and its interaction with language processing in children
and adults who stutter. Dr. Smith has had many projects on
stuttering and normal speech motor development supported by
the National Institutes of Health. In her current project
she and her co-investigators are recruiting 4 and
5-year-old children who stutter to participate in a range
of physiological and behavioral experiments. They will
return to be tested on the same measures each year for five
years. Using these data, Dr. Smith’s research group hopes
to discover behavioral and/or physiological indicators for
persistence and recovery of stuttering in young
children.
