Emma is a student in the combined PhD/MClSc in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences/ Speech and Language under the supervision of Dr. Olivia Daub. She's glad to be back with the SPROUT Lab after her completion of her MSc thesis:  Automatic Speech Recognition for Young Children: a Benchmarking Study. She's excited to continue researching ASR for children and how to apply the technology in Speech-Language Pathology clinical settings. Emma completed her Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. 

Junette is a combined MCISc/PhD student in Speech-Language Pathology and Health & Rehabilitation Sciences (Speech and Language Science) at Western University, supervised by Dr. Olivia Daub. She completed her Honours Bachelor of Health Sciences at Western University with a double major in Rehabilitation Sciences and French Studies. Her doctoral research will focus on developing a clinically meaningful evaluation tool to inform automatic speech recognition in analyzing preschool children’s speech and language through a series of interconnected research projects.

Alexandra is completing her MSc in Health & Rehabilitation Sciences (Speech and Language Science). She completed her HBA in Cognitive Science of Language at McMaster University. Her master's thesis focuses on the relationship between acoustic measures of vowels in preschoolers' speech and caregiver-reported intelligibility. 

Emma is completing a MSc in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (Speech and Language Science) at Western University under the supervision of Dr. Olivia Daub. She previously completed her Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a Research-Intensive Specialization and a minor in Sociology at the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on canonical babbling and early vocal development in infants. For her thesis, Emma is conducting a scoping review examining how canonical babbling is defined and measured in infants under 24 months of age.