Jie Yang

Dr. Jie Yang is an Assistant Professor in the MS-SLP Program at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, Austin, TX. Her research and clinical work focus on speech production, perception, and disorders in monolingual and bilingual children, with a particular emphasis on prosody development and cross-linguistic differences.

• Doctor of Philosophy in Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Texas at Austin
• Master of Arts in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Hunan University
• Bachelor of Arts in English, Central South University

Research interests include cross-linguistic speech acquisition, prosodic development, and clinical applications for speech sound disorders across diverse linguistic and cultural populations. She employs transcription-based and instrumental/acoustic analysis methods.

Dr. Yang has received a National Science Foundation research grant and presented at national and international conferences. Her clinical experience spans public schools and private clinics as a bilingual speech-language pathologist.