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About our Advisory Board Member: Dr. Judy Flax Dr. Flax is currently the Research Coordinator of the Tallal Lab and a Senior Research Speech Pathologist for the Infancy Studies Laboratory at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (CMBN) of Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Dr. Flax received her Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Sciences from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is a licensed speech pathologist with over 25 years of clinical experience in the areas of language-based learning disabilities. Prior to joining CMBN, she held the position of Research Speech Pathologist for Isabelle Rapin, M.D. at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York where she compared and contrasted language characteristics of autism versus those of specific language impairment. Her current research interests include family/genetic studies of language-based learning disabilities, early predictors of later language and reading difficulties, language processing dissolution in the aging, and the development of assessment tools that target receptive language in toddlers and preschoolers with very limited verbal and motor skills. |
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Speechville Express is a resource for families, educators, and medical professionals, offering information about language development in children, helping those who care for toddlers and young children who are late talkers, and connecting you with others who have been down this road. Language disorders and communication impairments included are apraxia, stuttering, pervasive developmental disorder, dysarthria, and aphasia, among others.
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