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What guides the research goals of the SSD Lab?
1) How do children learn to control their articulators?
Mechanisms at work in typical and disordered speech development: what are the relations between emerging capacities? What are the individual differences in profiles?
Multi-level & multi-dimensional approach: Developmental interaction between cognitive-sensory processing functions and representations
2) How can we best help children that struggle with acquiring intelligible speech? Implementation of a process-oriented method for diagnostics and treatment planning of developmental speech disorders in a user-friendly clinical instrument
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What does the SSD Lab offer?
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