Dr. Kaitlin Lansford is Associate Professor in the School of Communication Science and Disorders and Director of FSU’s Motor Speech Disorders Lab, where she conducts research on dysarthric speech perception. Her work focuses on perceptual training, which offers a promising avenue for improving intelligibility of people with dysarthria by offsetting the communicative burden from the patient onto their primary communication partners. She earned her Ph.D. in speech and hearing science from Arizona State University.