Helen Long, PhD, CCC-SLP is a T32 postdoctoral researcher at the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is based in the Wisconsin Intelligibility, Speech, and Communication (WISC) Laboratory (PI: Katie Hustad). Helen began her work as a speech-language pathologist (SLP) and worked for 9 years before and during her doctoral work as an SLP.

Her primary research examines prelinguistic vocal development in infants at risk of cerebral palsy for early biomarkers of speech impairment.

Helen is a co-founding collaborator of CSDisseminate, a grassroots initiative dedicated to educating CSD scientists and clinicians about open access practices in research.