Kenneth Tom, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communicative Disorders
Department of Speech Communication

Personal statement: 

I was thinking:

so this is how you swim inward,

so this is how you flow outward,

so this is how you pray.

Mary Oliver

   from “Five A.M. in the Pinewoods”

Clinical Emphasis:  Voice disorders, especially care of the professional voice.

Scholarly/Research Emphasis:  Physiology of voice production in normal, trained and disordered voices, especially as related to acoustics, laryngeal function and aerodynamics; Acoustic and physiologic phonetics, especially as related to bilingualism and second language acquisition.