Sara Howard (speech therapist)


Sara Howard FRCSLT is a British speech therapist and Professor Emerita of Clinical Phonetics at the University of Sheffield.

Career

Howard earned a BA in English and an MA in Linguistics at the University of Leeds before receiving a BSc in Speech & Language Therapy at Leeds Metropolitan University and a PhD in Clinical Phonetics at the University of Sheffield. She works in the area of the phonetics/phonology interface in developmental speech impairments.
Between 2010 and 2012 Howard completed an ESRC Research Fellowship on "Connected speech and word juncture in typical and atypical speech development".
Howard was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in 2015, and as a life member of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association in 2016 of which she was president from 2006 to 2014.

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