Allan B. Smith

Allan B. Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Professions at Regis College. A nationally certified speech-language pathologist with a PhD in Communication Science from the University of Connecticut, he has over 25 years of experience in higher education and specializes in speech sound disorders, dyslexia, voice production, and acoustic phonetics.

• PhD in Communication Science, University of Connecticut
• MS in Speech-Language Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions
• BS in Marketing Management, Florida State University

His research focuses on speech development in children, diagnostic tools for dyslexia, and phonetic analysis. Notably, he has published extensively on speech timing, utterance length, and statistical modeling for early dyslexia identification.

Recent publications reveal a trend in analyzing speech production patterns to predict developmental disorders, with sub-fields including acoustic phonetics, fluency disorders, and speech-language pathology methodologies.

• Meritorious Poster Submission Award, ASHA (2019)
• Betty Ann Harris Distinguished Alumni Award (2014)
• Faculty Research Fund Awards, University of Maine (2014, 2005)

Dr. Smith has taught courses ranging from foundational phonetics to advanced clinical topics in speech-language pathology, including CSD 210 Phonetics and SLP 645 Voice Disorders.