{"id":7083,"date":"2015-07-20T15:48:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T19:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=7083"},"modified":"2025-11-24T17:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:52:43","slug":"cara-stepp","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/cara-stepp\/","title":{"rendered":"Cara Stepp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/profile\/cara-e-stepp-ph-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cara Stepp<\/a>, PhD, is a Professor of <span>Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SAR), an Affiliate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (ENG), and Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sensorimotor Rehabilitation Engineering Lab at Boston University<\/a>. <\/span>Her research uses engineering tools to rehabilitate disordered sensorimotor function.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"profile-additional-details\">Research Areas: Understanding the relationship between acoustic parameters and speech and voice physiology as measured by kinematics (using electromagnetography and optics) and neural signals (sEMG, hooked wire EMG, EEG) in a variety of disorders (e.g., Parkinson\u2019s disease, laryngeal dystonia, vocal hyperfunction) to develop objective measures of voice and speech to aid clinical assessment. Developing and testing novel videogame-based rehabilitation interventions to improve the quality of life of individuals with sensorimotor disorders of speech and swallowing<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/stepplab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=pgMfq_EAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar Profile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28289,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7083\/revisions\/28289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}