Stuttering Project: University of Iowa

	Tricia Zebrowski is a professor in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology. She is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association and also a Board Recognized Fluency Specialist (ASHA Special Interest Division 4). Dr. Zebrowski's teaching, research, and clinical interests are in the area of stuttering, with specific emphasis on children who stutter. She has considerable clinical experience with both adults and children who stutter and their families. She has provided individual and group therapy for people who stutter in university clinics and public school settings and has supervised both undergraduate and graduate student clinicians in their practicum experiences with stuttering clients. Dr. Zebrowski has authored numerous research and clinical papers, as well as book chapters, videos, and a manual for stuttering intervention.
	Jerry Moon is a professor in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology. He is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association, and serves on the Executive Council of The American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. His research interests include speech aerodynamics, velopharyngeal function, and articulatory coordination. He earned his doctoral degree in Audiology and Speech Sciences at Purdue University, and his master's and bachelor's degrees in Communication Disorders from University of Western Ontario. Dr. Moon has published extensively in the area of motor control, especially related to the role of the soft palate in speech production.
	Amanda Berns: After completing her BS in Psychology at the University of Iowa, Amanda has been the research coordinator for Dr. Karla McGregor's Word Learning Lab for three years and is now for Dr. Tricia Zebrowski's Stuttering Research Lab. Her responsibilities in Dr. Zebrowski's lab involve the coordination of the Physiological Correlates of Stuttering study.
	Rick Arenas is a doctoral candidate in the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. His primary interest is in developmental stuttering. In particular, he is interested in the contextual variability of stuttering. He is currently investigating the effects of autonomic arousal on speech production, as well as how contextual fluctuations in the error monitoring system may be related to the moment or instance of stuttering. The goal of this work is to find a biologically plausible explanation for the contextual variability of stuttering that is directly tied to current models of speech production.
	Fang-Chi Chou received her master's degree in speech-language pathology from National Taipei College of Nursing, Taiwan, in 2004. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Her research interests include early childhood stuttering, the loci of disfluency and listeners' judgment of stuttering. Fang-Chi is assisting collecting ERP data in the Stuttering Research Lab.
	Victoria Tumanova received her master's degree in linguistics from St. Petersburg State University, Russia, in 2002, and her master's degree in speech-language pathology from University of Northern Iowa in 2004. Currently, she is pursuing a doctoral degree in speech science at The University of Iowa. Her research interests include developmental stuttering, speech motor control, basal ganglia and their role in learning and speech production, and the dopamine hypothesis of stuttering. In the Stuttering Research Lab, Victoria is in involved in collection and analysis of kinematic and EEG data.
	Lisa Stathus is a first year graduate student working on her master's degree in Speech Language Pathology. She grew up in Mequon, Wisconsin, and completed her undergraduate study here at The University of Iowa in May of 2008. She has been working for Dr. Zebrowski in the stuttering research lab since the summer of 2007 and has greatly enjoyed learning about stuttering and getting to work with all the wonderful individuals who are on the stuttering research team and the children who participate in the study.
	Lauren Block is currently finishing her senior year as an undergraduate at the University of Iowa. She is majoring in Speech Language Pathology with a minor in Psychology. She plans on going to graduate school in the Fall of 2009 to get her master's degree in Speech Language Pathology. Lauren works as a research assistant in the Stuttering Research Lab. She assists in giving standardized tests and performs transcription duties. Lauren hopes to pursue her interest in stuttering into her graduate studies.