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Courtney T. Byrd is a Full Professor and Associate Chair at the Department of Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. She serves as the Founding Executive Director of the Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education Research and directs core branches including the Michael Tami Lang Stuttering Institute and the Dealey Family Foundation Stuttering Clinic. With over 100 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Byrd has dedicated her career to advancing the understanding of the etiology of stuttering, particularly in culturally and linguistically diverse populations, and improving treatment and training practices for individuals who stutter. Her research focuses on the causes and therapies of childhood and adulthood stuttering, linguistic processing, motor planning, fluency disorders, voice disorders, and speech disfluencies. The Michael Tami Lang Stuttering Institute serves as an evidence-based healthcare resource aimed at eliminating geographical and financial barriers to access.
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