Yi Ting Huang

Yi Ting Huang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences (HESP). She received her doctorate in developmental psychology at Harvard University and trained as a postdoctoral fellow in cognitive psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A researcher in language processing in adults and children, she has applied this expertise to multiple populations and societally important problems, including the relationship between language learning and poverty, cochlear implant users and children learning language in the more isolated setting of a pandemic. Dr. Huang has led several interdisciplinary projects and is the principal investigator of a UMD Grand Challenges team project on “Fostering Inclusivity through Technology” that aims to improve remote work experiences for autistic individuals. During the pandemic, she spearheaded KidTalk, a project that studied young children’s pandemic language experience, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Huang is also a co-principal investigator on the NSF-funded project that established the Language Science Station at Planet Word Museum in Washington, D.C. She is currently the Director of the Maryland Language Science Center, a member of the Executive Committee for the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, and an Associate Editor of the journal Language Acquisition.

Areas of interest include language and society, real-time processing and learning, semantics-pragmatics interface, and Developmental Language Disorder.