Kristina Strother-Garcia

Dr. Kristina Strother-Garcia is a postdoctoral scholar trained in linguistics and cognitive science. Her research interests include child language acquisition, computational linguistics, and communication-related quality of life. Her work is highly interdisciplinary and has been published in Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, Frontiers in Robotics & AI, Otology & Neurotology, Wiley-Blackwell's Handbook of Psycholinguistics, and several journals of peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Dr. Strother-Garcia is passionate about increasing public awareness of developmental language disorder (DLD) and late language emergence (LLE), as well as investigating more effective methods of screening and intervention for these conditions. She is currently part of the SMALL Talk team at the CECC, which aims to better understand why children living in poverty experience higher rates of DLD and LLE than children in more affluent households.