“I'm interested in causality, not only because it's inherently complex and fascinating, but because it holds the key to successful prevention and intervention.”
- Department of Speech and Hearing Science
- 901 South Sixth St.
- Champaign, IL 61820
- Phone:(217) 333-2230
- Fax:(217) 244-2235
- Email:
- Contact Laura Segebart DeThorne
Laura Segebart DeThorne, Ph.D.
- Degree
- Ph.D., Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
- Area of Professional Interest
- Teaching interests include child language development, childhood communication disabilities, and behavioral genetics. Populations of particular interest include developmental apraxia of speech, autism spectrum disorders, and late-talking toddlers.
- Research Interests
- Dr. DeThorne's research focuses on why some children find learning to communicate so much more difficult than other children. In addition, she studies how factors that contribute to differences in speech-language development overlap with causal factors responsible for differences in learning to read.
- Visit Child Language and Literacy Lab site.
- Awards, Academic and Professional Honors
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Investigator Award 2004
- ASHA Advancing Academic-Research Careers (AARC) Award 2005
- See curriculum vitae for complete list of awards, academic and professional honors.
- Publications
- See curriculum vitae for list of publications, proceedings, books, and articles.
- Professional Associations and Certifications
- See curriculum vitae for professional associations and certifications.
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