Sara Howard (speech therapist)

Howard earned a BA in English and an MA in Linguistics at the University of Leeds before receiving a BSc in Speech & Language Therapy at Leeds Metropolitan University and a PhD in Clinical Phonetics at the University of Sheffield. She works in the area of the phonetics/phonology interface in developmental speech impairments (especially cleft lip and palate).^[1]

Between 2010 and 2012 Howard completed an ESRC Research Fellowship on "Connected speech and word juncture in typical and atypical speech development".^[2]

Howard was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in 2015,^[3] and as a life member of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association in 2016 of which she was president from 2006 to 2014.^[4]

• Howard, S. J. 2013. 'A phonetic investigation of single word versus connected speech production in children with persisting speech difficulties relating to cleft palate'. Cleft Palate – Craniofacial Journal, 50(2): 207-223.
• Howard, S. J. & Lohmander, A. (eds) 2011. Cleft Palate Speech: Assessment and Intervention. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Howard, S. J. & Heselwood, B. C. 2011. 'Instrumental and perceptual phonetic analysis: The case for two-tier transcriptions'. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 25(11-12), 940-948.
• Ball, M. J., Perkins, M. R., Mueller, N, & Howard, S. J. (eds) 2008. The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Howard, S. J. 2007. 'The interplay between articulation and prosody in children with impaired speech: observations from electropalatography and perceptual analysis'. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 9(1), 20-35.