D. Kimbrough Oller

D. Kimbrough Oller (born March 31, 1946), also known as Kim Oller, is an American scientist who has contributed to the fields of the evolution of language, child phonology, speech-language pathology (focusing on vocal patterns in cases of infant and childhood hearing loss, Down syndrome, and autism), and to the fields of bilingualism and second-language acquisition. He is currently Professor and Plough Chair of Excellence at the University of Memphis, where he directs the Origin of Language Laboratories. He is also an external faculty member of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (Klosterneuburg, Austria) and a permanent member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the LENA Foundation of Boulder, Colorado. Oller was elected as a Fellow of the American Speech–Language–Hearing Association (ASHA) in 2004 and was granted the Honors of ASHA in 2013. In 2022 he was elected as a Lifetime Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Provided by Wikipedia