Is Sequence Learning Key to Language Development? Researchers Will Seek Answer

Dr. Lisa Goffman, the Nelle C. Johnston Chair in Communication Disorders in Children in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, received a five-year, $3 million federal grant to pursue a new theory on an underlying mechanism of this impairment in language development.
The Callier Clinical Research Center, a component of the Callier Center for Communication Disorders, will provide the critical infrastructure for the grant (1R01DC018410), awarded to Goffman and her colleague at the University of Arizona, Dr. LouAnn Gerken, by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).