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Claudia Jane Raines

PhD Candidate

Claudia Raines, M.S., CCC-SLP

Speech Kinematics and Acoustics Laboratory (VUSKAL), PI: Dr. Antje Mefferd

Education:

  • B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Science & Communication Science and Disorders, 2020, Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
  • M.S., Communication Science & Disorders, 2022, Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK)

Hobbies: Running, pilates, reading, and horseback riding.

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Research Interests:

  • Under the primary mentorship of Dr. Antje Mefferd, I investigate the impact of neurological diseases on speech production by deepening our understanding of the underlying motor impairment and its impact on perceptual speech outcomes. As a secondary interest, under Dr. Cara Donohue’s mentorship, I aim to understand the impact of neurological diseases on swallowing function.

Awards:

  • Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences Dan Ashmead Poster Session Award: Third Place (September 2024)
  • The Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS) Student Fellow (August 2024)
  • T32 Training Grant: NIH 5T32DC020141  (August 2023)
  • International Congress of Phonetic Sciences Travel Award  (June 2023)
  • Graduate Research in Excellence Award: Oklahoma State University (May 2022)

Publications:

  • Raines, C., & Mefferd, A. (2025). Disease-Specific Speech Movement Characteristics of the Tongue and Jaw. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-14. DOI: 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00351
  • Raines, C., Clark, M., & Donohue, C. (2025). Profiling Swallowing Safety and Physiology in People with Huntington’s Disease. Neurogastroenterology & Motility, e70035. https://doi.org/10.1111/nmo.70035

Conference Proceedings:

  • Shiino, S., Kim, D., Slaughter, P., Hay, K., Raines, C., Durrough, C., Vaughn K., de Riesthal M., Mefferd A., & Brown, A. (2024, April). Impact of Deutetrabenazine on functional speech and gait dynamics in Huntington’s disease (P6-3.009). In Neurology (Vol. 102, No. 17_supplement_1, p. 5399). Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
  • Raines, C., Thies, T., Ding, A., & Mefferd, A. (2023). Aging Effects on Sentence-Length Velocity Distribution Characteristics of the Tongue and Jaw. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 3982–3986). Guarant International.