Martin J. Ball
Martin J. Ball is Professor of Speech-Language Pathology (Clinical Linguistcs and Phonetics) at Linköping University in Sweden.[1] Until the summer of 2014 he was Hawthorne-BORSF Endowed Professor II & IV and Co-Director of the Doris B Hawthorne Center for Special Education and Communicative Disorders in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.[2]
He founded the journal of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics in 1987 and served as president of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA) between 2000 and 2006. He is an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (London). He has published widely in the areas of clinical linguistics and Celtic linguistics. He was born in Wales, and worked at Universities in Wales and Northern Ireland before moving to the United States in 2000. He holds dual UK-US citizenship. In 2014 he moved to Sweden to take up his current position. In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.