Imagine sitting across the kitchen table from someone you have known for decades. They begin telling you about their day, but something has changed. Their words are slower than they once were. Some sounds are blurred together, others seem to disappear entirely. You know the person well. You know the stories they are likely to tell and the expressions they often use. Yet despite all of that familiarity, you find yourself asking them to repeat themselves again and again. More

This Audio is a summary of the paper ‘Bilingual Perception of Dysarthric Speech’, in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00288

This research was supported by National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Grants R01DC020930 and R01DC020713 (awarded to co-author Stephanie Borrie at Utah State University).

For further information, you can connect with Prof. Katerina A. Tetzloff at Katerina.Tetzloff@stonybrook.edu

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