Ronald M. Pomper | Morse Scholar Alumni

Ron Pomper, PhD
Ron Pomper, PhD

Morse Scholar Alumni 2017–2019

Current Position

Assistant Professor, Department of Communicative Sciences & Disorders
Michigan State University

Contact

pomp@msu.edu

About

Ron am an assistant professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences & Disorders at Michigan State University.

He studies how children learn language, including children with typical language development, developmental language disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. He uses behavioral responses and eye-tracking methods to measure different aspects of children’s ability to learn new words. His recent work investigates how children form detailed representations of the sounds that form words.

If you are interested in learning more about Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), check out this free eBook by Dr. Jeanne Tighe and the organizations Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (RADLD) and DLD and Me.

He completed my postdoctoral fellowship with Karla McGregor in the Word Learning Lab at Boys Town National Research Hospital and my PhD with Jenny Saffran in the Infant Learning Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Education

2011 BA Human Biology Stanford University
2014 MS Developmental Psychology University of Wisconsin-Madison
2020 PhD Developmental and Child Psychology University of Wisconsin-Madison
2024 Postdoctoral Fellow Boys Town National Research Hospital
2017–2019 Morse Scholar Major Professor: Jenny Saffran, PhD Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison

In the News

Selected Publications