Dr. Cler and QuILLS lab students Linnea Beasley and Anja Bullen recently visited San Diego, California, for a conference on motor speech, where they talked about their presentation titled “Motor Control in Adults with Developmental Language Disorders.” Which focused on how fine and gross motor control skills differ in adults with DLD and those without. Further research on motor control in adults with DLD will enhance our a understanding of how it appears in older populations.

Dr. Cler recently presented work by QuILLS lab students Allison Johnson and Bailey Jacobson and collaborator Dr. Jeanne Gallee at the Conference on Motor Speech. Their poster, “Laryngeal motor coordination in adults with Developmental Language Disorder”, showed initial results indicating possible laryngeal motor control differences in adults with DLD, but future work is needed to ensure that results are not due solely to language differences.