SOFIA SOUTO

Assistant Professor
Communication Sciences and Disorders - CCOM
Butler University
United States of America

Professor Pathology
Biography

Dr Sofia as a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences,Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana currently an assistant professor at the Butler University. She completed her B.A Communication Sciences and Disorders at University of Florida, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University and PhD at Speech and Hearing Sciences/Linguistics, Indiana University. She has been awarded as Florida Bright Futures Academic Scholar, President’s Honor Roll, University of Florida Four-Year Scholar, Anderson Scholar of Highest Distinction, Speech and Hearing Sciences Departmental Assistantship. She has immense research experience as Graduate Research Assistant, Indiana University on Bilingual Language Lab; Completed spontaneous language sample analyses, NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, T32 DC000030-23, Communicative Disorders, PI and Research Mentor: Laurence B. Leonard.

Research Intrest

Communication Sciences, Hearing Sciences, Linguistics

List of Publications
Souto SM, Leonard LB, Deevy P, Fey ME, Bredin-Oja SL. Subordinate clause comprehension and tense/agreement inconsistency in children with specific language impairment. Journal of communication disorders. 2016 Aug 31;62:45-53.
Souto SM, Leonard LB, Deevy P. Identifying risk for specific language impairment with narrow and global measures of grammar. Clinical linguistics & phonetics. 2014 Oct 1;28(10):741-56.
Anderson RT, Souto SM. The use of articles by monolingual Puerto Rican Spanish-speaking children with specific language impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics. 2005 Oct;26(4):621-47.