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"It's reassuring for me to rely on scientific data to back up my assessments," said co-senior author of the study, Erin Walsh, a speech-language pathologist and lactation consultant at UC San Diego Health.

Megan Robertson is a pediatric speech-language pathologist from Mechanicsburg, Pennslyvania.

“When we miss those opportunities to help them at those younger ages, sometimes we are limiting their potential into adulthood,” according to speech-language pathologist Sarah Ziemba, an Early Intervention provider in Peoria, Illinois.

But those systems are understaffed and booked up, too, according to speech-language pathologist Sarah Ziemba, an Early Intervention provider in Peoria, Illinois.

People who would eventually use these technologies need to be part of the research process to guide how best to meet their needs, notes Melanie Fried-Oken, a speech-language pathologist at Oregon Health & Science University who serves as a consultant to the research consortium behind the technology Willett’s team used.