Sara Howard (speech therapist)

Sara Howard
FRCSLT
Occupation
  • Speech Therapist
Academic background
Alma mater University of Sheffield
Academic work
Institutions
  • University of Sheffield

Sara Howard FRCSLT is a British speech therapist and Professor Emerita of Clinical Phonetics at the University of Sheffield.[1]

Career

Howard earned a BA in English and an MA in Linguistics at the University of Leeds before receiving a BSc in Speech & Language Therapy at Leeds Metropolitan University and a PhD in Clinical Phonetics at the University of Sheffield. She works in the area of the phonetics/phonology interface in developmental speech impairments (especially cleft lip and palate).[1]

Between 2010 and 2012 Howard completed an ESRC Research Fellowship on "Connected speech and word juncture in typical and atypical speech development".[2]

Howard was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in 2015,[3] and as a life member of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association in 2016 of which she was president from 2006 to 2014.[4]

Select publications

  • Howard, S. J. 2013. 'A phonetic investigation of single word versus connected speech production in children with persisting speech difficulties relating to cleft palate'. Cleft Palate – Craniofacial Journal, 50(2): 207-223.
  • Howard, S. J. & Lohmander, A. (eds) 2011. Cleft Palate Speech: Assessment and Intervention. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Howard, S. J. & Heselwood, B. C. 2011. 'Instrumental and perceptual phonetic analysis: The case for two-tier transcriptions'. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 25(11-12), 940-948.
  • Ball, M. J., Perkins, M. R., Mueller, N, & Howard, S. J. (eds) 2008. The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Howard, S. J. 2007. 'The interplay between articulation and prosody in children with impaired speech: observations from electropalatography and perceptual analysis'. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 9(1), 20-35.

References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Sara Howard". University of Sheffield. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "Connected speech and word juncture in typical and atypical speech development". ESRC. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "RCSLT Honours Roll Call". Royal College of Speech and Lanuage Therapists. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "About the ICPLA". ICPLA. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
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