Dr. Jennifer D. Clarke Ph.D. CCC/SLP There are many questions that surround how speech production emerges. Is the process innate with some biological predisposition needing to be evoked? Is the emergence of a speech just one part of a more complex dynamic process? There are theoretical positions in support of these and other processes, however, the one thing that remains constant is the lack of understanding of the developmental sequence of the motor control necessary to produce speech. Speech production [...]