Meet the Lurie College Faculty | Pei-Tzu Tsai
Pei-Tzu’s research focuses on underlying factors and clinical management of stuttering, gender diverse voice and communication services, and graduate training of cultural-linguistic diversity in speech-language pathology. She teaches fluency disorders and voice disorders, and provides clinical education and services in stuttering and voice. Read more below and listen to Pei-Tzu’s personality playlist on the Lurie College Spotify account!
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland – College Park
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Tsai, P.-T. (2018). Phonological neighborhood effect in spontaneous speech in adults who stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfludis.2018.08.005
Quach, W., & Tsai, P.-T. (2017). Preparing future SLPs for the clinical world of cultural-linguistic diversity. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2, 82-102.
Tsai, P.-T., & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2016). Involvement of central cognitive mechanism in word production in adults who stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research, 59, 1269-1282.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
Arboleda, M., Moriarty, K., Tam, H., Herrera M., Busy, C., Costa, K., & Tsai, P.-T. (2019, March). Stuttering camp effects: Intensive camp for children who stutter and their caregivers. Poster presented at the 2019 California Speech Language Hearing Association Annual State Convention, Pasadena, CA.
Tsai, P.-T. (2018, November). Listener perception of transgender voice. Poster presented at the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA.
NOTEWORTHY GRANTS AND AWARDS
Reassigned Time Program Award, SJSU, 2019-2023
Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Grant, SJSU, 2018-2019
ONLINE RESOURCES
AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST
Cognitive demand
Cultural diversity
Linguistic processing
Phonological factor
Stuttering
Transgender voice
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