Haskins Laboratories

Haskins Laboratories founded in 1935 is a private, non-profit research institute with a primary focus on speech, language and reading, and their biological basis. Support for our work comes mostly from federally funded, competitive research grants. This is supplemented by private foundation support and individual donations.haskins Laboratories enjoys a distinct advantage as an independent research center. Crossing the boundaries of universities as well as disciplines, it has created a critical mass of full-time and visiting psychologists, linguists, physicists, engineers and other specialists who share information and insights and frequently collaborate as they study important problems such as speech synthesis and dyslexia that are too complex for research conducted from a single perspective ever to resolve.speech defines us as human beings, while literacy is the foundation of modern civilization. Yet the relationship between speech and literacy is anything but simple. Although talking and understanding what others say comes naturally to every healthy child, many individuals as well as entire societies do not read or write. Disorders, disease and trauma impair some people's ability to speak and/or understand the speech of others. Disabilities and inadequate education prevent many more from learning to read or write.the science of the spoken and the written word promises to help these people participate more fully in society. For more than 80 years, the Haskins Laboratories has been a leading multidisciplinary community of scientists studying speech, language and reading and their disorders with the practical applications improving human communication.we have currently 25 projects ongoing including: links between production and perception in speech; neurochemistry as a moderator of brain networks for reading; tracking neurocognitive changes during evidence-based reading instruction in typically and atypically developing children; sensory basis for speech motor learning; development of selective attention to multisensory information in human infants; rapid: assessing and preventing detrimental impacts on literacy acquisition during covid-19-related school closures.