Tara McAllister is an Associate Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University. Her research aims to understand how speech is acquired in both typical and clinical populations, and why developmental speech patterns resolve in some individuals but persist in others. As director of the Biofeedback Intervention Technology for Speech (BITS) Lab, she has conducted multiple studies measuring the efficacy of acoustic and ultrasound biofeedback in the treatment of persistent speech sound errors. BITS lab research is funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the American Speech-Language Hearing Foundation. Since 2014, Dr. McAllister has directed the development of staRt, an iOS app to make biofeedback intervention more widely accessible.

Li Sheng is a faculty member at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies and an affiliated member of the Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to joining PolyU, she held faculty positions at the University of Texas Austin and the University of Delaware from 2007 to 2021. She directs the Language Learning and Bilingualism Lab and conducts basic, translational, and clinical practice research with the goals of advancing understanding of the mechanisms of language development and improving the quality of life of individuals who have language disorders. She studies how learner-internal factors, such as learning capacity and executive functions, environmental factors, such as the quantity and quality of language input, and linguistic factors, such as properties of the to-be-learned languages jointly shape learning outcomes. Through these investigations, she aims to develop psychometrically sound diagnostic tools to facilitate the early and accurate identification of monolingual and bilingual children with language disorders, and to contribute to the design of effective intervention programs.

Kwanchanok Yimtae is a Professor of Otorhinolaryngology at Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University. She is the Director of Khon Kaen Ear, Hearing and Balance Center. She also serves as the Director of Academic Clinical Research Office, the Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University. Her academic interests have been in areas of Otology, Neurotology, Audiology, Health System, Medical Devices, and Research Ethics.