Pei-Tzu Tsai, PhD

Associate Professor, Communicative Disorders & Sciences

Pei-Tzu's research focuses on underlying factors and clinical management of stuttering, gender diverse voice and communication services, and graduate training of cultural-linguistic diversity in speech-language pathology.  She teaches fluency disorders and voice disorders, and provides clinical education and services in stuttering and voice.

Education

• Ph.D., Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland - College Park
• M.A., Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland - College Park
• B.A., English, National Chengchi University

Recent Publications

• Shefcik, G. & Tsai, P.-T. (In press). Voice-related Experiences of Nonbinary Individuals (VENI): Development and content validity. Journal of Voice. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2020.12.037

• Tsai, P.-T. (2018). Phonological neighborhood effect in spontaneous speech in adults who stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfludis.2018.08.005

• Quach, W., & Tsai, P.-T. (2017). Preparing future SLPs for the clinical world of cultural-linguistic diversity. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2, 82-102.

• Tsai, P.-T., & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2016). Involvement of central cognitive mechanism in word production in adults who stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research, 59, 1269-1282.

Recent Presentations

• Tsai, P.-T., Arboleda, M., Costa, K., &. Busty, C., (2021, January). Stuttering camp effects: Intensive camp for children who stutter and their caregivers [Poster presentation]. Oxford Dysfluency Conference, Oxford, UK.

• Mahendra, N., Tsai, P.-T., Brym, J., Dessenberger, M., Park, T., & Tadokoro, A. (2020, November). Adults with aphasia and children with stuttering sing together: An intergenerational study [Poster presentation].
  American Speech, Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA. (Conference canceled)

• Shefcik, G. & Tsai, P.-T. (2020, November). Assessment of non-binary individuals' self-perception of voice: Development and validation of a pilot questionnaire [Poster presentation]. American Speech, Language and
  Hearing Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA. (Conference canceled)

• Mahendra, N., Tsai, P.-T., Brym, J., Dessenberger, M., Park, T., & Tadokoro, A. (2020, March). Adults with aphasia and children with stuttering sing together: An intergenerational study [Poster presentation].
  California Speech Language Hearing Association Annual State Convention, Anaheim, CA. (Conference canceled)

• Arboleda, M., Moriarty, K., Tam, H., Herrera M., Busy, C., Costa, K., & Tsai, P.-T. (2019, March). Stuttering camp effects: Intensive camp for children who stutter and their caregivers. Poster presented at the 2019 California Speech Language Hearing Association Annual State Convention, Pasadena, CA.

Noteworthy Grants and Awards

• Reassigned Time Program Award, SJSU, 2019-2023
• Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Grant, SJSU, 2018-2019

Online Resources

• SJSU People webpage

Areas of Research Interest

• Cognitive demand
• Cultural diversity
• Linguistic processing
• Phonological factor
• Stuttering
• Transgender voice

Recommended Reading

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Out With It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice by Katherine Preston
• Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth

Personality Playlist

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