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Rebecca Alper

Assistant Professor
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Temple University
United States of America

Biography

Dr. Alper completed her M.A., Ph.D., and a graduate certificate in Biostatistics at the University of Iowa, where she was a Presidential Fellow under the co-mentorship of Dr. Richard Hurtig and Dr. Karla McGregor. Dr. Alper will be joining the Temple CSD faculty having completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Temple Infant and Child Lab with Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek.

Research Interest

Dr. Alper’s research focuses on understanding and improving language and academic outcomes for children who are at-risk as a result of learning environment and/or communication disorder status. This work includes clinical behavioral assessment research, as well as research on the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinician and caregiver-mediated early language and literacy interventions. Additionally, Dr. Alper is interested in research methodology and data analysis for speech-language research.

Publications

  • Alper R, Fu X, Erickson-Levendoski E, Zheng W, Sivasankar M (2011) Acute stress to excised vocal fold epithelium from reactive oxygen species. Laryngoscope, 121(10), 2180-2184.

  • McGregor K K, Alper R (2015) Sleep disorders as a risk to language learning and use. EBP Briefs, 10(1), 1-21.

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