Amber Franklin

Education and Background

• Doctor of Philosophy in Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, 2009
• Master of Science, University of Rhode Island, 1999
• Bachelor of Science, McMaster University, 1995

Dr. Franklin is a speech-language pathologist whose research interests include cross-linguistic and child phonology, cultural and linguistic diversity in CSD, and scholarship of teaching and learning. Her focus is on the appropriate identification of speech sound disorders within dialectal variation.

She is currently investigating linguistic variation on the Eastern Caribbean island of Anguilla, where local residents speak English and Anguillian English Creole.

Dr. Franklin is the director of the Language Learning Pronunciation and Perception Lab (L2P2). She is a member of the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing, the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s SIG 14 on Cultural and Linguistic Diversity. In 2017, Dr. Franklin was named Miami University’s ASG Outstanding Professor of the Year.

Professional Recognition and Affiliation

• 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, University of Washington; National Institutes of Health-National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Role: Trainee, PI: Christopher Moore, 2003 – 2004
• 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

• 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.