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Ryan Millager
PhD Candidate
Developmental Stuttering Lab, Principal Investigator: Dr. Robin Jones
Education:
- BA, Music & Dramatic Arts, 2008, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC)
- MS, Speech-Language Pathology, 2012, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
Hobbies and Interests:
Reading, biking, running, color-coded spreadsheets, most geeky games and media
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Research Description:
My areas of research interest include caregivers of children who stutter and factors that may contribute to early stuttering; technologies and methods to improve the efficiency and impact of speech-language research; and support programs for people who stutter.
Publications:
- Millager, R.A., Conture, E.G., Walden, T.A., & Kelly, E.M. (2014). Expressive Language Intratest Scatter of Preschool-age Children Who Stutter. Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders (41:110-119).
- Millager, R.A., Dietrich, M.S., & Jones, R.M. (2023). Behavioral and cognitive-affective features of stuttering in preschool-age children: Regression and exploratory cluster analyses. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfludis.2023.105972
- Herring, C., Millager, R.A., & Yaruss, J.S. (2022). Outcomes following participation in a support-based summer camp for children who stutter. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 53(1). https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_LSHSS-21-00034
- Millager, R.A., Liu, T., Pruett, D.G., & Jones, R.M. (2025). A year in stuttering research: A systematic review of global representation and sociodemographic reporting practices in English-language journals in 2020. Journal of Communication Disorders, 114, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106500