During her four years as a speech-language pathologist, Kate Kreidler MS’21 always felt drawn back to research and academia. I had to find existing data from another project to analyze.”Goffman had a longitudinal dataset comparing rhythmic production in children who have DLD with that of typically developing children. Kreidler’s analysis revealed that DLD is associated with a deficit in rhythmic grouping abilities when drumming a simple pattern. “In this work I will measure mouth and hand motion while children learn speech and music rhythms. “In a PhD program, the goal is to develop your own research program and your own questions,” she said.