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 (29)
algorithm10
r-package10
command-line-utility10
r9
starter-kit9
earth9
kaldi9
python8
phonetics8
praat6
acoustics6
speech5
linux5
windows5
imap5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mlml/autovot
Feb 2014 - Jun 2021
Trainable algorithm for automatic measurement of voice onset time
Contributions:2 releases, 123 commits, 20 pushes in 7 years 5 months
thealk/PraatScripts
Mar 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:39 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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