Jill Hoover
Graduate Program Director, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Language acquisition, executive functions, developmental language disorder (DLD), Down syndrome (DS), fragile X syndrome (FXS), and intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Building
358 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003
United States
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About
Jill Hoover, PhD, is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Program Director in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at UMass Amherst. She studies how children learn language—especially how they build vocabulary, understand grammar, and make sense of spoken words as they grow. Her work has focused on children with developmental language disorder (DLD) as well as children with Down syndrome and fragile X syndrome, with the long-term goal of improving diagnostic and treatment methods and creating more effective supports for families and educators. Dr. Hoover leads the Sounds2Syntax Research Lab, where she and her collaborators explore how language skills and executive functions work together during language acquisition.