Trainees

Current Students

PhD Students

Emma Kazmierowski, BA, MSc

Emma is a student in the combined PhD/MClSc in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences/ Speech and Language under the supervision of Dr. Olivia Daub. She's glad to be back with the SPROUT Lab after her completion of her MSc thesis:  Automatic Speech Recognition for Young Children: a Benchmarking Study. She's excited to continue researching ASR for children and how to apply the technology in Speech-Language Pathology clinical settings. Emma completed her Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. 

 

Junette Tindan, BA

Junette Tindan

Junette is a combined MCISc/PhD student in Speech-Language Pathology and Health & Rehabilitation Sciences (Speech and Language Science) at Western University, supervised by Dr. Olivia Daub. She completed her Honours Bachelor of Health Sciences at Western University with a double major in Rehabilitation Sciences and French Studies. Her doctoral research will focus on developing a clinically meaningful evaluation tool to inform automatic speech recognition in analyzing preschool children’s speech and language through a series of interconnected research projects.

 

MSc Students

Alexandra Jackson, BA

Alexandra is completing her MSc in Health & Rehabilitation Sciences (Speech and Language Science). She completed her HBA in Cognitive Science of Language at McMaster University. Her master's thesis focuses on the relationship between acoustic measures of vowels in preschoolers' speech and caregiver-reported intelligibility. 

 

Emma Wand, BA

Emma is completing a MSc in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (Speech and Language Science) at Western University under the supervision of Dr. Olivia Daub. She previously completed her Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a Research-Intensive Specialization and a minor in Sociology at the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on canonical babbling and early vocal development in infants. For her thesis, Emma is conducting a scoping review examining how canonical babbling is defined and measured in infants under 24 months of age.

Rhyan St. Louis, BA

Rhyan is a Master's student in the Health and Rehabilitation Sciences faculty focusing on Speech and Language Sciences under the supervision of Dr. Olivia Daub. They completed a Bachelors of Fine Arts at University of Manitoba’s School of Art in 2021 before continuing their education as a second-degree student at The University of Winnipeg. There, they completed an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Linguistics with a focus on psycholinguistics and developmental language. Their research interests include autistic speech and language development.

 

MA (Linguistics) Students 

Elena Athanasopoulos, BA Hons

Elena is completing her M.A. in Linguistics at the University of Western Ontario under the co-supervision of Dr. Olivia Daub and Dr. Jeff Tennant. She completed her Bachelor of Arts Honours in Modern Languages with Spanish Option and Psychology and a Certificate in Second Language Education at the University of Windsor. Her master's research focuses on SLP practices regarding bi/multilingual children. For her research, Elena is transcribing and profiling monolingual and bi/multilingual child speech.