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Erica Lescht

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Angela AuBuchon @memoryangela.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Children w/ language problems struggle to coordinate speech movements when saying new sentences. Their sentences often have incorrect syntax but not semantics. Motor coordination & syntax require sequencing (either muscles or words) suggesting a broad sequencing problem. @erica-lescht.bsky.social
Erica Lescht earned her PhD in Communication Science and Disorders from the University of Pittsburgh. Her mentors are Drs Lisa Goffman and Angela AuBuchonErica, a slight, brunette woman wearing glass, stands presents a bar chart illustrating that children with DLD have more syntactic errors than their typically hearing peers.An infographic illustrating the differences between phonology which is how words sound, versus semantics which is what words mean, versus syntax which references word order.
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Angela AuBuchon @memoryangela.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Today is the Boys Town National Research Hospital 2025 Post Doc Symposium! Follow along to learn about our Post Docs and how the research program at Boys Town cares for children, families, and communities!
Boys Town has been training postdoctoral researchers in communication sciences and disorders since 1985. This is the oldest grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that is still training new scientists.
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