Marcy Adler-Bock is a speech-language pathologist who works with preschool children with communication difficulties in Vancouver, British Columbia. She completed her BA at Simon Fraser University and her MS at the University of British Columbia. She has collaborated on various research projects within the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences at the University of British Columbia since 2004, in particular, with use of ultrasound. Her Master’s thesis was an ultrasound treatment study with two adolescents who had difficulty with /r/.

Penelope Bacsfalvi is an instructor for Linguistics and Audiology and Speech Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She received her PhD in 2007 on the use of visual feedback in speech habilitation. She is a speech-language pathologist and researcher at the Provincial Resource Programme for Auditory Outreach (PRP-AO). Her clinical work focuses on hearing loss in children, cochlear implants, visual feedback technology, and a team approach to auditory verbal intervention. Her research continues on visual feedback in speech habilitation.

Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is co-editor of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics (Taylor & Francis), and the book series Communication Disorders across Languages (Multilingual Matters). His main research interests include sociolinguistics, clinical phonetics and phonology, and the linguistics of Welsh. He is an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Among his recent books are Handbook of Clinical Linguistics (co-edited with M. Perkins, N. Müller, and S. Howard, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), and Phonology for Communication Disorders (co-authored with N. Müller and B. Rutter, Psychology Press, 2010).

Scott Barnes is a speech-language pathologist and postdoctoral research fellow with the Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Aphasia Rehabilitation, based at the University of Sydney. His doctoral dissertation examined topic talk during everyday interactions involving a person with aphasia, and was undertaken via Macquarie University, Sydney. He is currently using CA to investigate everyday interactions involving people with acquired communication disorders.

B. May Bernhardt has been a speech-language pathologist since 1972 and on ­faculty at the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, University of British Columbia, since 1990. Her main focus has been phonological and other language development, assessment and intervention, with application of nonlinear phonology and use of visual feedback in intervention. She was awarded Honours of the BCASLPA Association in 2006 for her collaborative research projects involving practitioners in ­British Columbia. Recently, her interest in collaboration has led to two final career projects: (1) speech, language and hearing support for First Nations, Métis and Inuit people in Canada and (2) crosslinguistic investigation of phonological development.

Stuart Cunningham is a Lecturer in the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield. He has a PhD in computer science and his primary research interests are in robust automatic speech recognition and the application of speech technology in the field of assistive technology. He has recently led work on the development of new approaches to the automatic recognition of dysarthric speech. Dr Cunningham has also conducted research into ways of producing personalized synthetic voices for people with speech disorders for use in voice output communication aids.

Paula S. Currie is an Associate Professor and the Assistant Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Southeastern Louisiana University. She received her BA from Louisiana State University; her Master of Communication ­Disorders from the Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans; her PhD from the University of New Orleans. She has worked as a speech-language pathologist in a variety of settings including public schools, private practice, and ­universities. Her areas of interest include administration, assessment of communication disorders, and intervention for people with complex communication ­disorders.

Alison Ferguson is Professor of Speech Pathology at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her main research interests are in the application of linguistics to the assessment of people with aphasia and to understanding the processes of therapy for aphasia.

Margaret Forbes studied English at Randolph College (BA) and Carnegie Mellon University (MA) and received her training in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Pittsburgh (MA). She treated adults with cognitive and communication disorders at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospitals for 10 years. She has been involved in communication disorders research at the Alzheimer Disease Research Center of the University of Pittsburgh, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, and Carnegie Mellon University, where she is currently a research faculty member working on the AphasiaBank project directed by Brian MacWhinney. Her research interest is neurogenic communication disorders in adults.

Davida Fromm did her training in speech-language pathology at the University of Michigan (BA), the University of Wisconsin (MS), and the University of Pittsburgh (PhD). Between 1990 and 2007, she taught courses in Communication Science and Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University. In 1999, Dr Fromm co-authored the revised Communicative Abilities in Daily Living (CADL-2) test with Audrey Holland and Carol Frattali. Currently, she is a Research Faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of Psychology. Her research interests have focused on adults with acquired neurogenic communicative disorders.

Angela Granese is a doctoral student in the Applied Language and Speech Sciences program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She received a BA in Mass Communication from the University of South Florida in 2006. She is in the process of earning the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP). Her research interests include clinical phonetics and phonology, bilingualism, and autism.

Jacqueline Guendouzi is a clinical linguist who received her PhD from Cardiff University. Currently she is a Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders department at Southeastern Louisiana University. Her research interests include psycholinguistics and discourse analysis. Her publications include: J. Guendouzi and N. Müller (2006) Approaches to Discourse in Dementia, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; J. Guendouzi, F. Loncke, and M. Williams (2011) Handbook of Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Processes: Perspectives in Communication Disorders, Psychology Press.

Audrey Holland is Regents’ Professor Emerita of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Arizona. Her areas of expertise include working with adults who have aphasia and other neurologic communication disorders, aspects of aging, and counseling individuals with disabilities. She has served on the Advisory Council for the US National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIH), the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special Disabilities, US Department of Veterans Affairs, and was a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research. She is a recipient of the Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She also received the Clinical Achievement Award from the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences, and the Professional Achievement Award from the Council of Graduate Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Sara Howard is Professor in Clinical Phonetics in the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield and an ESRC Research Fellow. As well as degrees in phonetics and linguistics, she has a professional qualification as a speech-language therapist. Her research interests span clinical phonetics and pho­nology (with a particular interest in phonetic transcription and electropalatography) and developmental speech disorders, including cleft palate. Her most recent books are Cleft Palate Speech: Assessment and Intervention (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), co-edited with Anette Lohmander, and The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), co-edited with Martin Ball, Mick Perkins, and Nicole Müller. She is currently President of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association.

Mark Huckvale is Senior Lecturer in Speech Sciences in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London. He has a degree in physics from Warwick University, and a PhD in human communication from the University of London. He has over 25 years of experience in research and teaching in speech and hearing sciences. His research activities have included speech recognition, speech synthesis, and speech signal processing. He is the main author of the Speech Filing System toolkit for speech analysis and is a recipient of the Provost’s Teaching Award for his contributions to phonetics teaching at UCL.

Louise Keegan is Assistant Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Appalachian State University, North Carolina. She is originally from Limerick, Ireland, and graduated as a speech and language therapist from University College Cork. She completed her PhD in applied language and speech sciences in the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2012. Her research interests lie in the social use of language especially in populations with acquired language disorders, and her PhD dissertation focused on the linguistic construction of identity in individuals with traumatic brain injury.

Sharynne McLeod is Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University in Australia. She is editor of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, vice president of the International Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics Association, and a Fellow of both the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and Speech Pathology Australia. She has been received national awards for her teaching and research. Recent co-authored and co-edited books include The International Guide to Speech Acquisition, Speech Sounds, Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders in Children, and Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children.

Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology, Computational Linguistics, and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a model of first and second language acquisition and processing called the Competition Model which he has also applied to aphasia and fMRI studies of children with focal lesions. He has also developed the CHILDES project for the computational study of child language transcript data, the TalkBank system for the study of conversational interactions, AphasiaBank for the study of aphasia, and the E-Prime and PsyScope programs.

Vesna Mildner is a Professor and Chair of Applied Phonetics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Her research and teaching areas of interest are neurophonetics, bilingualism, speech perception, speech acquisition, and clinical phonetics. She is the author of two books and dozens of peer-reviewed articles and chapters and has edited a number of books, proceedings, and journal special issues; she is editor-in-chief of the journal Govor and on the editorial board of several journals. She has organized more than 20 conferences and presented invited talks and courses in Austria, Brazil, China, Croatia, France, Hungary, Italy, and Slovenia. Mildner is active on several research projects and is a member of IPA, IASCL and ICPLA.

Geetanjalee Modha is a speech-language pathologist with the Acquired Brain Injury program at GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre in Vancouver. She has also worked with preschool children and at the Provincial Autism Resource Centre. She is a clinical educator and has instructed a course in phonology and labs at UBC. Her Master’s research was a case study of a teenager with /r/ challenges and providing treatment using ultrasound. She is currently involved in a study at GF Strong to explore communication strategies in stroke.

Nicole Müller is a Professor of Communicative Disorders at the University of ­Louisiana at Lafayette, and holds a Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professorship. Among her teaching and research interests are phonetics and speech output disorders, as well as Systemic Functional Linguistics and its applications to various data genres in the context of communicative disorders, such as conversation in dementia and traumatic brain injury. She also co-edits the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics and the book series Communication Disorders across Languages.

Judith D. Oxley is a speech-language pathologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her current clinical and research interests include language and speech development in children who use augmentative and alternative communication, cognitive demands of using alternative communication modalities for adults following traumatic brain injury, and the emergence of metastrategic insight into clinical practice in preprofessional speech-language pathology students.

Thomas W. Powell is Professor of Rehabilitation Sciences in the School of Allied Health Professions at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – Shreveport, USA. His research interests include clinical phonetics and phonology, measurement, and ethics. Dr Powell is co-editor of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, the official journal of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association. He edited, with Martin Ball, a four-volume compendium entitled Clinical Linguistics, part of the Critical Concepts in Linguistics series published by Routledge. He also co-authored Ethics for Speech-Language Pathologists: An Illustrative Casebook.

Barbara Purves is an Assistant Professor in the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She received a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies in 2006 at UBC and has over 25 years’ clinical experience working as a speech-language pathologist with people with acquired communication disorders. Concerning speech communication, she has researched the area of comprehensibility in adult dyads. A recent Aphasia Mentoring Project involved people with aphasia providing information and learning opportunities for students from a variety of disciplines.

Joan Rahilly is Senior Lecturer in Phonetics and Linguistics at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her research interests are wide ranging, and include segmental and suprasegmental aspects of speech variability in Irish English, speech acquisition, and clinical linguistics. Her publications in all of these areas are united by a particular focus on the interactive effects of speech and language variation and breakdown within and between speech communities.

Eleonora Rossi received her Master’s and PhD from the Linguistic Department at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). Her dissertation focused on investigating morpho-syntactic disorders in speakers with agrammatic aphasia and in bilingual aphasic speakers. She is currently working within the Center for Language Science – CLS – as a post-doctoral research associate at Pennsylvania State University, where she is investigating bilingual language processing in healthy populations utilizing behavioral and neuroimaging methods, such as eye-tracking, Event-Related Potentials (ERPs), and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).

Ben Rutter is a university teacher in the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield. His research interests focus on the application of phonetics and phonology to the study of speech and language disorders. He has published research adapting methods in acoustic phonetics to the study of dysarthria, progressive speech degeneration, and phonological acquisition. He holds a PhD in clinical linguistics from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.