Academic and Clinical Faculty

Speech - Language - Hearing Sciences has both academic and clinical faculty. Find out more about our clinical faculty on our Julia M. Davis Center page. 

Faculty & Clinical Professionals

Christopher Apfelbach

Christopher Apfelbach

he/him
Assistant Professor

Specialties

Voice Disorders; Speech Science; Speech Anatomy; Neuromuscular Physiology; Respiratory Physiology; Exercise Physiology; Perceptual Psychology

Marilyn Fairchild

Marilyn Fairchild

she/her/hers

Specialties

communication differences and disorders in pediatric and adult populations; voice therapy; assessment and intervention with culturally and linguistically diverse populations

Lizbeth H Finestack

Lizbeth Finestack

she/her
Professor, Chair
Department Chair

Specialties

Child Language; Language Intervention; Developmental Disabilities: Down Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, Autism; Developmental Language Disorder

Kate Lamb

Kate Lamb

She/Her

Specialties

Speech sound disorders; Developmental language disorders (DLD); Orofacial myofunctional disorders (OMD); Educational speech-language pathology

Rebecca Ludwig Lulai

Rebecca Ludewig Lulai

she/her
Director of Clinical Programs in Speech-Language Pathology

Specialties

clinical education and supervision; cognitive rehabilitation and brain injury; stroke rehabilitiation; voice banking for people living with progressive diseases affecting speech; selective mutism

Benjamin Munson

Benjamin Munson

He/Him, Preferred title/honorific: Mx.
Professor

Specialties

Childhood speech-sound disorders; Sociolinguistics; Speech perception; Speech production; Gender

Peggy Nelson

Peggy Nelson

she/her(s)
Professor

Specialties

audiology; hearing aid signal processing; hearing loss; psychoacoustics; speech perception

Matthew Winn

Matthew Winn

he/him
Associate Professor

Specialties

Audiology; Cochlear implants; Speech perception; Auditory perception; Phonetics

Kerry Witherell

Kerry Witherell

she/her
Director of Programs - Audiology

Specialties

Adult Audiologic services; Pediatric Audiologic services; Implantable devices; Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Clinics; Electrophysiology

Yang Zhang

Yang Zhang

Professor

Specialties

auditory neuroscience; speech and voice perception; learning and cognitive development; magnetocephalography (MEG), event-related potentials (ERP), functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI); autism; dyslexia