Ron Pomper

Ron Pomper is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at Michigan State University.

Dr. Pomper studies how children learn language, including children with typical language development, Developmental Language Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder. He uses behavioral responses and eye-tracking methods to measure different aspects of children’s ability to learn new words. His recent work investigates how children form detailed representations of the sounds that form words.

Dr. Pomper completed his postdoctoral fellowship with Karla McGregor in the Word Learning Lab at Boys Town National Research Hospital and his PhD with Jenny Saffran in the Infant Learning Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

If you are interested in learning more about Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), check out the organizations Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (RADLD) and DLD and Me and this free eBook by Dr. Jeanne Tighe.

You can learn more about Ron Pomper at his website and access a list of his publications via Google scholar.