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

Her primary research studies 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 on open access practices in research.

She loves reading, Pilates, watching cooking shows, and pretending she can cook.