Short Bio

Bonnie Levin-Asher is a Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP) and a passionate researcher who studies the development of speech, language, and communication in infants. Her clinical expertise lies in diagnosing and treating speech and language disorders in children, particularly those with Down's syndrome, cerebral palsy, and autism. Her doctoral research explored the relationship between early multimodal communication and later language development, and her post-doctoral work at Hebrew University of Jerusalem compared multimodal communication in hearing and hearing-impaired infants. She is currently collaborating with Hunter College and Rockefeller University to study how infants learn speech in both human and robot environments. Her goal is to gain insights into vocal learning in human infants by applying songbird learning models as a framework. Additionally, Bonnie teaches undergraduate courses on clinical integration, assessment, and intervention for language disorders.