Carol A. Miller

• Center for Language Science
• Child Study Center
• National AI Institute for Exceptional Education
• Speech, Language and Swallowing in Individuals with Down Syndrome
• Linguistic Diversity Across the Lifespan

My research interests are focused around typical and atypical language development, particularly children with developmental language disorder; cognitive processes in communication disorders, with emphasis on speed of processing and working memory in children and adults with language disorders; and bilingual language development. I use behavioral and electrophysiological methods.

Language and Language Disabilities Across the Lifespan

I am contributing to several research projects:

• Using network science to understand how adults with developmental language disorder learn patterns (co-investigator, funded by National Institutes of Health)
• Developing a language processing assessment that is suitable for a broad range of neurodevelopmental disabilities, with community involvement (co-principal investigator, funded by Penn State Social Science Research Institute)
• Studying specific characteristics of individuals with Down syndrome that contribute to swallowing and speech outcomes with the goal of developing interventions tailored to the needs of this population (co-investigator, funded by National Institutes of Health)
• Creating artificial intelligence solutions to help school-based speech-language pathologists identify and serve more students with speech and language needs (affiliated faculty, funded by National Science Foundation and Institute of Education Sciences)

I am a co-PI of a training grant to promote interdisciplinary, translational research and education for doctoral students, “Linguistic diversity across the lifespan (LINDIV): transforming training to advance human-technology interaction" funded by the National Science Foundation.  
 

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I am the Schreyer Honors advisor for CSD.  Please contact me with questions about becoming a Schreyer Scholar.  

Undergraduate students are a crucial part of my research team.  Check us out at the Child Language Development Lab.