Overview
Dr. Patel is joint appointed across the Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology in Bouvé College and the College of Computer and Information Science. She directs the Communication Analysis and Design Laboratory, an interdisciplinary group that conducts research along two broad themes:
1) the acquisition and impairment of speech prosody (the melody of speech) in healthy speakers and those with neuromotor disorders
2) the design of speech enhancement and learning technologies that leverage the residual and/or developing capabilities of users