Thea Knowles
Assistant Professor at Michigan State University
Lansing, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolThea Knowles is an Assistant Professor in Communicative Sciences & Disorders at Michigan State University with 12 years of experience bridging clinical practice and quantitative speech science. Trained through a combined MClSc/PhD in Health & Rehabilitation Sciences and Speech‑Language Pathology, she develops acoustic measures that link speech production characteristics to intelligibility in motor speech disorders. Her work evaluates how interventions—such as speaking rate modification, communication devices, and deep brain stimulation—reshape those acoustic–intelligibility relationships to guide treatment. She has a strong track record supervising labs and building automated speech analysis pipelines (MATLAB, Praat, R) from her work at McGill and Western. Clinically grounded by extensive student-clinician experience across hospital, school, and fluency-treatment settings, she translates lab findings into practical assessment and therapy insights. Colleagues value her multidisciplinary approach that blends rigorous acoustics with real-world clinical impact.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MClSc/PhD, Speech-Language Pathology/Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, MClSc/PhD, Speech-Language Pathology/Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Western UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Linguistics, Bachelor’s Degree, Linguistics at McGill University
Spanish, French
Github Skills (49)
measurement10
r-package10
voice10
r9
starter-kit9
command-line-utility9
earth9
speech-recognition8
python8
kaldi8
phonetics8
acoustics6
speech5
letter5
praat5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thealk/PraatScripts
Mar 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:39 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
thealk/personal_website
Feb 2018 - May 2021
My blogdown-fuelled website
Contributions:135 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
blogdownmarkdown
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