Speech-Language Pathology Research
The division of Speech-Language Pathology engages in research across multiple conditions that include voice and voice disorders, feeding and swallowing issues, resonance disorders and VPI, and speech/language disorders.
Current Research
Our current areas of research include the following:
- Aerodigestive and Esophageal Center Outcomes Registry and Quality of Life study
- Cleft Palate Center Outcomes Registry
- Research on speech and hearing function in patients with 1p36 deletion
- Longitudinal clinical study of Smith Lemli Opitz Syndrome
- Relationship of swallowing apneic pause duration and airway protection in pediatric patients and the relationship of lingual pressure, swallow acoustics, and apneic pause during swallowing in healthy participants
- Telehealth to deliver voice therapy to children in their homes
- Outcomes of voice therapy in children with vocal fold nodules
- Speech outcomes of cleft palate repair and secondary surgery for VPI
- Modeling of the velopharyngeal valve to study
- Changes in phases of pubertal voice mutation in singers from the Cincinnati Boychoir
- Read the USA Today article Study to examine mystery of how a boy's voice changes
- Narrowing care gaps for early language delay
- Language disorders in children with psychiatric diagnoses
