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Grand Valley State University

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5.04/30/2025

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About Cara

Cara M. Singer, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is an Associate Professor and Director of the Speech-Language Pathology program in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Grand Valley State University. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan, Master of Arts from the University of Iowa, and Doctor of Philosophy from Vanderbilt University. Certified as a speech-language pathologist, Dr. Singer directs the Stuttering in Pediatrics and Adults (SPA) Lab, focusing her research on stuttering across the lifespan in children and adults. Her investigations include clinical characteristics associated with stuttering persistence, predictors using cumulative risk approaches, temperament and vocabulary relations in stuttering trajectories, attention and speech-language dissociations, speech-language pathologists' practices in evaluating persistence prognosis, self-assessments of stuttering practices by school practitioners, validation of parent rating scales for children's speech, and case studies on treating concomitant issues like lateral lisp in young children who stutter.