Lawrence D. Shriberg

Lawrence D. Shriberg, Ph.D., (1939–2024) was Professor Emeritus of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was Principal Investigator of the Phonology Project, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison and conducted research centered on genetic and other bases of pediatric speech sound disorders of known and unknown origin. Goals of the research, using a framework termed the Speech Disorders Classification System, were to develop behavioral markers that can identify biomarkers and explicate the causal pathways of pediatric speech sound dis- orders. Among the many awards he received were Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Alfred K. Kawana Council of Editors Award, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Kansas Medical Center.