Nina R Benway

Nina R Benway

I engineer theory-driven clinical artificial intelligence speech technologies to improve access to speech-language therapy, and I test how well these speech technologies work using clinical trial experimental designs.

Publications

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Journal Publications

Benway, N.R., and Preston, J.L. (2025). Preparing Clinicians for a Future of Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Evidence-Based Practice through the Critical Appraisal of Clinical Artificial Intelligence. E pub ahead of issue. doi

McAllister, T., Hitchcock, E., Benway, N. R., Hill, J., and Preston, J. L. (2025). Protocol for Visual-acoustic Intervention with Service delivery In-person and via Telepractice (VISIT) Non-Inferiority Trial for Residual Speech Sound Disorder. BMC Pediatrics. 25 (1). doi

Herbst, B., Beiting, M., Schulteiss, M., Benway, N. R., and Preston, J. L. (2024). Speech in Ten-Minute Sessions: A Pilot RCT of the Chaining SPLITS Service Delivery Model. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. doi

Ng, S.-I., Xu, L., Siegert, I., Cummins, N., Benway, N. R., Liss, J., & Berisha, V. (2024). A Tutorial on Clinical Speech AI Development: From Data Collection to Model Validation. arXiv. doi

Munson, B. Wruck, C., Benway, N. R., and Preston, J. L. (2024). Gender and Age Biases in the Assessment of Speech Accuracy: A Study of Speech-Language Clinicians’ Ratings of /s/ Accuracy. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. doi

Benway, N.R., and Preston, J. L. (2024). Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Speech Therapy for /ɹ/: A Single Case Experimental Study. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 33 (5): 2461:2486. doi

Benway, N.R., Preston, J. L., Salekin, A. Hitchcock, E., & McAllister, T. (2024). Evaluating Acoustic Representations and Normalization Techniques for Rhoticity Classification in Children with Speech Disorders. JASA Express Letters. ***Editor’s Pick. doi

Preston, J.L., Leece, M.C., Cabellero, N.F., Wang, D.L., Herbst, B.H., and Benway, N.R. (2023). A Randomized Controlled Trial of Treatment Distribution and Biofeedback Effects on Speech Production in School-Aged Children with Apraxia of Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. doi

Coretta, S., Dokovova, M., Mridhula, M., and the Open Science Framework Research Group. (2023). Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human speech analyses. *Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. *

Benway, N. R., Preston, J. L., Hitchcock, E. R., Rose, Y., Salekin, A., Liang, W., & McAllister, T. (2023). Reproducible Speech Research with the Artificial-Intelligence-Ready PERCEPT Corpora. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. doi

Benway, N.R, Hitchcock, E. R., McAllister, T., Feeney, G. T., Hill, J., & Preston, J. L. (2021). Comparing Biofeedback Types for Children With Residual /ɹ/ Errors in American English: A Single-Case Randomization Design. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. doi

Preston, J.L., Benway, N.R., Leece, M.C., & Caballero, N.F. (2021). Concurrent validity between two sound sequencing tasks used to identify childhood apraxia of speech in school-age children. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. doi

Benway, N.R., Garcia, K., Hitchcock, E., McAllister, T., Leece, M., Wang, Q., & Preston, J. L. (2021). Associations Between Speech Perception, Vocabulary, and Phonological Awareness Skill in School-Aged Children with Speech Sound Disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. doi

Preston, J.L., Benway, N.R., Leece, M.C., Hitchcock, E., & McAllister, T. (2020). Tutorial: Motor-based Treatment Strategies for /r/ Distortions. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. doi

Benway, N.R., & Preston, J.L. (2020). Differences Between School-Aged Children with Apraxia of Speech and Other Speech Sound Disorders on Multisyllable Repetition. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups: Advances in Research and Clinical Management of CAS Forum. doi

Peer-Reviewed Proceeding Papers

Benway, N. R., Tabatabaee, S., Preston, J.L., Munson, B., Espy-Wilson, C. (in press). Subtyping Speech Errors in Child Speech Sound Disorders with Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion. INTERSPEECH 2025: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Eads, A., Kabakoff, H., Benway, N.R., Hitchcock, E., Preston, J., & McAllister, T. (in press). PERCEPT-US: A Multimodal American English Child Speech Corpus Specialized for Articulatory Feedback. INTERSPEECH 2025: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Benway, N.R., Preston, J. L., and Espy-Wilson, C. (2024) Evaluating Vocal Tract Coordination in Childhood Apraxia of Speech with Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion Feature Sets. INTERSPEECH 2024: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Kos, Greece. doi

Preston, J.L., Benway, N.R., Prestopnik, N., & Preston, N. (2024). The Speech Motor Chaining web app for speech motor learning. INTERSPEECH 2024: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Kos, Greece. doi

Benway, N. R., & Preston, J. L. (2023). Clinical Efficacy and End User Acceptability of Motor-Based Intervention with Automated Mispronunciation Detection of Rhotics in Residual Speech Sound Disorders. INTERSPEECH 2023: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Dublin, Republic of Ireland. doi

Benway, N. R., Salekin, A., Xiao, Y., Sharma, H., & Preston, J. L. (2023). Classifying Rhoticity of /ɹ/ in Speech Sound Disorder using Age-and-Sex Normalized Formants: PERCEPT-R Classifier. INTERSPEECH 2023: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Dublin, Republic of Ireland. doi

Benway, N. R.*, Siriwardena, Y. M.*, Preston, J. L., Hitchcock, E., McAllister, T., & Espy-Wilson, C. (2023). Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion Features for Mispronunciation Detection in Child Speech Sound Disorders. INTERSPEECH 2023: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Dublin, Republic of Ireland. * denotes equal contributions. doi

Benway, N.R., Preston, J.L., Hitchcock, E, Salekin, A. Sharma, H., & McAllister, T. (2022). PERCEPT-R: An Open-Access American English Child/Clinical Speech Corpus Specialized for the Audio Classification of /ɹ/. INTERSPEECH 2022: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Incheon, Republic of Korea.