Scott Miller Doctoral Candidate Contact: Room 554, Waisman Center University of Wisconsin-Madison 1500 Highland Avenue Madison, WI 53705 Phone : (608) 262 7483 E-mail: sdmiller1@wisc.edu

I'm currently a PhD student in the psychology department. Before coming to Madison, I worked as a speech-language pathologist and studied ‘late talkers’ and ‘specific language impairment’ with Donna Thal at San Diego State University. Here in Madison I have completed a study with Ruth Litovsky and Keith Kluender in which we demonstrated and attempted to predict variability in ‘echo thresholds’ for speech sounds based on waveform onset characteristics.  More recently I’ve begun work, with Jenny Saffran and Ruth, aimed at understanding the relationship of lateral asymmetries in auditory processing to speech comprehension and language learning with cochlear implants and in noisy environments. In general, I'm interested in how individual differences in perceptual, motor, and semantic abilities affect speech and language development.