Raymond D. Kent, Ph.D.
Raymond D. Kent, Ph.D.is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Kent’s primary research interests are (1) speech intelligibility in various clinical populations, especially motor speech disorders in children and adults, (2) typical and atypical development of speech in children, and (3) the development and refinement of methods for the study of speech and its disorders. Most recently, he collaborated on a NIH-supported project that uses MR and CT imaging along with acoustic analyses to study the anatomic development of the vocal tract in relation to its acoustic properties. Dr. Kent has published several specialty books and is currently working on a dictionary of communication sciences and disorders.