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Amber Franklin
Associate Professor,
Director of the Language Learning Pronunciation and Perception Lab (L2P2)
Speech Pathology and Audiology

Amber Franklin

Contact Info

Voices and Vistas Lab

Education and Background

  • Ph.D. Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington (2009)
  • M.S. Communicative Disorders, University of Rhode Island (1999)
  • B.S. Psychology, McMaster University (1995)

Dr. Franklin is a speech-language pathologist whose research interests span two key areas. The first focuses on child phonology, including the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of speech sound disorders in speakers of Caribbean dialects and languages. The second explores the factors that influence academic and career success, as well as overall well-being, among students pursuing studies in communication sciences and disorders. In 2017, Dr. Franklin received the Outstanding Professor of the Year award from Miami University’s Associated Student Government.

Professional Recognition and Affiliation

  • Career Collaborative Grant, Miami University. To support student travel to NBASLH convention and presentation of  “Identity formation, self authorship, and the CSD professional journey.” Amount, $3,886, 2024
  • Career Collaborative Grant, Miami University “Training speech pathology and audiology students to host dialogues about race and racial disparities in healthcare.” Amount: $2,000, 2021
  • Career Collaborative Grant Miami University: "Enhancing Diversity in Speech Pathology and Audiology." Amount: $1,900, 2019
  • Miami University Humanities Center Grant to support an outside speaker for the series “What the L: Language Research at Miami.” Amount: $1,700, 2017
  • ASHA Advancing Academic Research Careers. Amount: $5,000, 2012
  • Kirschtein National Research Service Award F31 HD046412-05 Minority predoctoral fellowship. National Institutes of Health–National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. University of Washington, 2004 - 2009
  • Training Grant T32 DC0033 from the National Institutes of Health-National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. (PI: Moore/University of Washington), Role:Trainee, 2003
  • American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
  • National Black Association of Speech Language and Hearing
  • Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist; State of Ohio
  • Center for Human Development, Learning and Technology, Executive Board Member

Selected Publications

  • Lindsay Nurse, K. T., Martinez, S., Franklin, A., Ferreira, J. A. S., Lucker, J., & Wallace, G. (2025). Culturally and linguistically responsive speech sound assessment considerations for speakers of Trinidadian English and Trinidadian English Creole. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 10(2), 595-607.
  • Franklin, A. (2024, January 11). “Helping CSD students through pit stops and detours.” The ASHA Leader Live. https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/leader.AE.29012024.gap-year-support-slp-aud.36/full/
  • Franklin, A. D., Turner, C., Lindsay Nurse, K. T., & Arline, C. (2024). Productions of Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation–Third Edition Stimulus Words Among Teenage Speakers of Anguillian Eastern Caribbean English. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 9(3), 779-794.
  • Olszewski, A., Smith, E., & Franklin, A. (2022). Speech-language pathologists’ feelings and practices regarding technological apps in school service delivery. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_LSHSS-21-00150
  • Mayes, M., Payne, M., & Franklin, A.D. (2020). One of One: Addressing Feelings of Isolation among Black Students in CSD.  Journal of the National Black Association of Speech Language and Hearing.
  • Franklin, A.D. & Nurse, L. (2020). Do small islands count? A commentary about combatting population bias in CSD research. Journal of the National Black Association of Speech Language and Hearing.
  • Jamieson, P.A., Franklin, A. D., Sunderhaus, R.  & Bell, C. (2016). Improved method for creating criterion maps for automatic mind map analysis. Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2016.
  • Franklin, A.D., Oksanen, K. & Gilftert, K (2016).  Goodness and accentedness ratings of /hVt/ words by naïve and aware listeners.  American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 25(4), 620-633.
  • Franklin, A.D.  & McDaniel, L. R. (2016). Exploring a phonological processes approach to adult pronunciation training. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology.  25(2), 172 – 182  doi:10.1044/2015_AJSLP-14-0172
  • Franklin, A., Li, T., Jamieson, P., Semlak, J., & Vanderbush, W. (2015, October). Evaluating metrics for automatic mind map assessment in various classes. In Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2015. 32614 2015. IEEE (pp. 1-8).
  • Franklin, A.D. & Stoel-Gammon, C.  (2014).  Using multiple measures to document change in English vowels produced by Japanese, Korean, and Spanish speakers: The case for goodness and intelligibility. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology.10(5), 314-326.
  • Franklin, A. D. (2012).  Acquisition of a Phonological System in Adulthood.  In B.V. Peter & A. MacLeod  (Eds.), Comprehensive Perspectives on Child Speech Development and Disorders. Nova Science Publishers Inc. Hauppauge, N.Y. 
  • Franklin, A.D. , Stoel-Gammon, C and Wassink A., (2008). Acoustic Quantification of /i/-/ɪ/ Overlap in Children 21 to 33 Months. International Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 10(5), 314-326.
  • Wassink, A., Wright, R., and Franklin, A. (2007). Intraspeaker variability in vowel production: An investigation of motherese, hyperspeech, and Lombard speech in Jamaican speakers. Journal of Phonetics, 35, 363-379.
  • Culatta, B., Kovarsky, D., Theadore, G. Franklin, A. and Timler, G. (2003). Quantitative and qualitative documentation of early literacy instruction. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 12, 172-188.