The Communication P.A.L.S. Lab is currently accepting PhD students to be a part of our research team! Under Dr. Darling-White's direction, students gain research experience in quantitative (kinematic, aerodynamic, acoustic, and perceptual analyses) and qualitative (interviews and content analysis) methods.
Dr. Darling-White's current NIH grant employs the Baylor and Darling-White (2020) conceptual framework of communicative participation to understand and characterize communicative participation in adolescents with Down syndrome (DS). The specific aims of this grant are:
- To construct impairment-level speech production profiles for adolescents with DS.
- To investigate how personal perspectives and communication environment alter communicative participation for adolescents with DS.
- To develop a mechanistic model of communicative participation for adolescents with DS.
The long-term goal of this line of research is to bring a precision medicine approach to the development of theoretically driven, evidence-based, participation- focused interventions for adolescents with DS.
If you are interested in carrying out your doctoral research with Dr. Darling-White, please send an email with your CV to darlingwhite@arizona.edu.
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