Dr. Maas is an associate professor in communication sciences and disorders at Temple University. After earning a Master’s degree in neurolinguistics (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) and working as a clinical linguist, he obtained a PhD in language and communicative disorders (San Diego State University and University of California, San Diego) and undertook postdoctoral training at Boston University and MIT with a focus on speech motor control. At Temple University, Dr. Maas conducts translational and clinical research, including clinical trials to determine treatment efficacy and improve outcomes for children and adults with speech disorders (primarily apraxia of speech). For more than 20 years, he has conducted systematic studies of factors that optimize speech motor learning, with a long-term goal of developing and improving treatments that increase communicative quality of life and well-being of people with speech disorders. His research has been funded by NIH and Apraxia Kids, among others.