Mabel L Rice

Dr. Rice is an international authority on language disorders in children and the genetics of language acquisition. In addition to her academic role of Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing, she also is Director of the Merrill Advanced Studies Center and Director of the Child Language Doctoral Program, one of the first interdisciplinary programs in the country to train child-language specialists. Dr. Rice maintains an active research lab where students address fundamental questions about young children's language acquisition and language impairments. She co-developed the first test to successfully diagnose Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in children ages 3 to 8. Dr. Rice has been awarded more than $30 million in competitively awarded research funding, and her research has been continuously externally funded for more than 30 years, including funding from the NIH and Department of Education.

She held a Japan Society Fellow for Research at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan; Hayden Williams Fellow at Curtin University, Perth, Australia; Professorship in innovation at the University of Potsdam, Germany; a researcher in residence at INSERM Hospital de la Salpetriere, Paris, France; a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT; and Visiting Scholar in the Graduate School of Education, Harvard. Dr. Rice has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Psychological Association (APA), Association for Psychological Science (APS), and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).

Learn more about Mabel Rice on the Speech-Language-Hearing: Sciences & Disorders website.