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Leah Kapa

Member of the Graduate Faculty | Assistant Professor, Speech/Language and Hearing

Speech Language & Hearing Sci

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Leah Kapa earned her PhD in Child Language at the University of Kansas and completed an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowshiat the University of Arizona before joining the faculty. Dr. Kapa’s research focuses on the relationshibetween language and cognition in individuals with typical language abilities and individuals with developmental language disorders. She addresses questions about how we use cognitive skills, like memory and attention, to learn and process language and how we use language to complete difficult cognitive tasks.

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