Roger J. Ingham, Ph.D.

Roger J. Ingham is Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was born in Australia and received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in psychology (1972) from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. In 1982 he was awarded the Order of Australia. He has published 4 books and more than 180 papers, principally on developmental stuttering. His research has focused on the development of stuttering treatments, measures of stuttering and the neurology of stuttering. He is an ASHA Fellow and has received the Honors of ASHA. He has also been the recipient of several federally funded research grants for investigating stuttering in adults and its treatment. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Research Imaging Center at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio where, in collaboration with Drs. Peter Fox and Janis Costello Ingham, he has developed a program of research on stuttering and its treatment using brain imaging techniques including PET, event-related fMRI and diffusion tensor imaging. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in UCSB’s Brain Imaging Center.


Irene Seybold, CCC-SLP

  • Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from UC Santa Barbara
  • Speech and Hearing Sciences, Psychology, & Linguistics
  • Master of Arts in Communicative Disorders from CSU Long Beach
  • American Speech-Language and Hearing Association Certificate of Clinical Competence
  • California Speech Language Pathology License and Credential
  • 7 years of experience with development and conduct of the MPI program under Dr. Ingham
  • 9 years of experience with research and training with Stuttering Measurement System
  • 2-½ years of experience working with adults and school-age children with various speech and language disorders