Stephanie Borrie

Stephanie Borrie is a Professor in the Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences, Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, Utah State University, where she also holds the title of Emma Eccles Jones Dean’s Scholar and directs the Human Interaction Lab. Her work bridges speech perception, motor speech disorders, and human interaction to advance understanding and treatment of dysarthria and other communication challenges.

Education

• PhD, Speech and Language Therapy, University of Canterbury, 2011 — Dissertation: Perceptual Learning of Dysarthric Speech
• Additional qualification, Speech-Language Therapy, University of Canterbury, 2005

Research Focus

Professor Borrie’s program explores how listeners perceive and adapt to disordered speech and how conversational partners entrain their speech behaviors. Spanning speech acoustics, cognitive psychology, and clinical intervention, her investigations target motor speech disorders (especially dysarthria from Parkinson’s disease and traumatic brain injury), listener training paradigms, and the social-cognitive factors that modulate communicative success. Recent work delves into developmental trajectories of perceptual learning in adolescents and the impact of motivation on therapeutic outcomes.

Article Landscape

Across more than 50 peer-reviewed publications since 2007, her scholarship reveals three dominant threads: (1) perceptual learning—how listeners attune to dysarthric speech and generalize that learning across talkers and contexts; (2) conversational entrainment—the rhythmic, prosodic, and lexical alignment that occurs during dialogue and its disruption in clinical populations; and (3) clinical translation—developing evidence-based tools (e.g., Autoscore software) and training protocols to improve intelligibility and reduce listening effort. The 2022–2024 output intensifies focus on developmental perspectives, motivation, and novel signal-processing techniques to enhance real-world communication.

Scientific Awards & Honors

While no named awards are listed in the provided text, Professor Borrie’s designation as Emma Eccles Jones Dean’s Scholar signifies a high-level research distinction within the college.

Advising & Grant Activity

She has mentored numerous master’s and doctoral students in Speech & Hearing Sciences, including Samantha Budge, Taylor Hepworth, Camille Wynn, Elizabeth Josephson, Kiersten Pope, Michelle Parker, Kristen Jensen, Christine Delfino, and Elizabeth Fall. Although specific grant details are not provided, her prolific publication record and sustained mentoring imply active federal or foundational funding.

Labs & Teams

Professor Borrie directs the Human Interaction Lab at Utah State University, a research environment devoted to experimental and translational work on speech perception, entrainment, and motor speech disorders.