Undergraduate Students Presented in Greece at International Symposium
Thu, 11/20/2025 - 10:33am
Undergraduate Students, from the Department of Communicative Disorders, traveled to Chania, Greece this past summer to present a poster on Piloting the UL Lullaby project: First data, at the 5th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS) 2025.
The purpose of this study is the development of speech developmental norms in typically developing English-speaking children in Louisiana and to identify the use of English dialect(s) or other language(s) (if any) by the parents/caregivers and/or young children in the family. The results of the study will contribute to developing a sensitive, culturally informed and evidence-based guide for enhancing clinical and educational speech assessment/intervention strategies for young English-speaking children with speech disorder, and/or other communication disorder affecting speech, language and literacy development in the State of Louisiana.
With the mentorship of Dr. Elena Babatsouli, the Undergraduate Student Researchers/Presenters include:
Emily Dore
Charli Durand
Claire Glaeser
Madison Johnson
Amiah Leal
Emily Savant
The 5th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2025) hosts original research on the acquisition and use of first language, second language, additional language, bilingual/multilingual, and dialectal/multidialectal speech, child and adult, typical and atypical. The Symposium encourages a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas in applied linguistics across phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sign language, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, neurolinguistics, educational linguistics, sociolinguistics, speech pathology, and application of new technologies.
The ISMBS 2025 took place June 16-19, 2025, in Chania, Crete, Greece.
Learn more about the UL Lullaby project here.
