Dr. Eric S. Jackson is Associate Professor in the Communicative Sciences and Disorders department at NYU. He received his M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology from CUNY Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences from the CUNY Graduate Center. Dr. Jackson is also a practicing speech-language pathologist with more than 15 years of experience and expertise in stuttering intervention.
Dr. Jackson's translational research focuses on the variability of stuttering—the context-based inconsistency with which stuttering events manifest themselves—and the factors that drive variability including social interaction and anticipation. His recent work focuses heavily on novel treatment approaches for stuttering including neuromodulation and psilocybin. Dr. Jackson's overarching goal is to use basic science approaches and knowledge of the human experience to inform support mechanisms and intervention approaches to improve the lives of children and adults who stutter, and their families. His work has been funded by the NIH, NSF, and private donors since 2015. Dr. Jackson's own experience as a person who stutters informs his research, practice, and teaching.
Before joining NYU, Eric was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Iowa. He has been Visiting Professor at several institutions in the US and internationally since 2009 and he's currently an Affiliated Scientist in the Psychology Department at NYU.
Selected Publications
- Warner, HW & Jackson, ES+ (submitted). The impact of information load on the distribution of stuttering events.
- Margulis, CL & Jackson, ES+ (2025). A qualitative investigation of how stutterers perceive social interactions. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 85, 106137.
- Chang, S. E., Below, J., Chow, H. M., Guenther, F., Hampton Wray, A., Jackson, E. S., ... & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2025). Stuttering: Our current knowledge, research opportunities, and ways to address critical gaps. Neurobiology of Language, 1-78.
- Uysal, HT, Atila-Caglar, N., Erensoy, I., Kose, A., & Jackson, ES (2025). Psychometric Evaluation of the Stuttering Anticipation Scale in Turkish (SAS-TR). Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica.
- Tichenor, S.E., Yaruss, J.S., Constantino, C., Gerlach-Houck, H., Gore, K., Irani, F., Jackson, ES, LaFleur, C., Mandulak, K.C., Rodgers, N.H. and Wray, A.H. (2024). Pseudostuttering assignments support clinical training and develop strong stuttering therapists: A letter to the editor regarding Bortz (2024). Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, pp.1-7.
- Bauerly, KR & Jackson, ES (2024). Influences of attentional focus on across- and within-sentence variability in adults who do and do not stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
- Edwards, BL, Jackson, ES, Kefalianos, E, Sheedy, S, & Onslow, M. (2024). Contemporary clinical conversations about stuttering: Can intervention stop early stuttering development? International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1-8.
- Pasculli, G., Busan, P., Jackson, ES, Alm, PA, De Gregorio, D., Maguire, GA, Goodwin, GM, Gobbi, G, Erritzoe, D, & Carhart-Harris, R (2024). Psychedelics in developmental stuttering to modulate brain functioning: a new therapeutic perspective?. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 18, 1402549.
- Jackson, ES+, Goldway, N, Gerlach-Houck, H, & Gold, ND* (2024). Stutterers’ Experiences on Classic Psychedelics: A Preliminary Self-Report Study. Journal of Fluency Disorders. 106062
- Chang, S. E., Jackson, ES, Santayana, G., Zavos, G., & Onslow, M. (2024). Contemporary clinical conversations about stuttering: What does brain imaging research mean to clinicians? International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1-7.
- Orpella, J., Flick, G., Assaneo, M. F., Shroff, R., Pylkkänen, L., Poeppel, D., & Jackson, ES+ (2024). Reactive Inhibitory Control Precedes Overt Stuttering Events. Neurobiology of Language, 5(2), 432-453.
- Warner, HJ*, Shroff, R, Zuanazzi, A, Arenas, RA, Jackson, ES+ (2023). Linguistic features of stuttering during spontaneous speech. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 78, 106016.
- Goldfarb, J*, Orpella, J, Jackson, ES+ (2023). Eliciting Stuttering in School-age and Adolescent Stutterers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(5), 1631-1638.
- Jackson, ES, Dravida, S, Zhang, X, Noah, JA, Gracco, V, Hirsch, J (2022). Activation in Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Underlies Stuttering Anticipation. Neurobiology of Language, 3(3), 469-494.
- Assaneo, MF, Ripollés, P, Tichenor, SE, Yaruss, JS, and Jackson, ES+ (2022). The relationship between auditory-motor integration, interoceptive awareness, and stuttering severity. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 48.
- Warner, H*, Whalen, DH, Jackson, ES+ (2022). The effect of gap duration on the perception of fluent versus disfluent speech. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 71, 105896.
- Jackson, ES+, Miller, LR*, Warner, HJ*, Yaruss, JS (2021). Adults Who Stutter Do Not Stutter During Private Speech. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 70, 105878.
- Jackson, ES, Wijeakumar, S, Beal, D, Brown, B, Zebrowski, P, & Spencer, JP (2021). Speech Planning and Execution in Children Who Stutter: A Preliminary fNIRS Investigation. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 91, 32-42.
- Chong, H, Jackson, ES, Kraft SJ, Ambrose, N, Loucks, T (2021). Effects of Altered Auditory Feedback on Speech Fluency and Within- and Across-Utterance Kinematic Variability in Adults Who Stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(7), 2539-2556.
- Rodgers, NH & Jackson, ES+ (2021). Temperament is Linked to Avoidant Responses to Stuttering Anticipation. Journal of Communication Disorders. 93, 106139.
- Jackson, ES, Gracco, V, Zebrowski, P (2020). Eliciting Stuttering in Laboratory Contexts. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 63(1), 143-150.
- Jackson, ES, Rodgers, NH, & Rodgers, D (2019). An Exploratory Factor Analysis of Action Responses to Stuttering Anticipation. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 60, 1-10.
- Jackson, ES, Wijeakumar, S, Beal, D, Brown, B, Zebrowski, P, & Spencer, JP (2019). A fNIRS Investigation of Speech Planning and Execution in Adults Who Stutter. Neuroscience, 406, 73-85.
- Jackson, ES, Gerlach, H., Rodgers, NH, & Zebrowski, P (2018). My client knows that he is about to stutter: How can we address stuttering anticipation during therapy with young people who stutter? Seminars in Speech and Language, 39(4). Thieme Medical Publishers.
- Jackson, ES, Tiede, M, Beal, D, & Whalen, DH (2016). The Impact of Social-Cognitive Stress on Speech Variability, Determinism, and Stability in Adults Who Do and Do Not Stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59(6), 1295-1314.
- Jackson, ES, Tiede, M, Riley, M, & Whalen, DH (2016). Recurrence Quantification Analysis of Sentence-Level Speech Kinematics. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59(6), 1315-1326.
- Jackson, ES, Yaruss, JS, Quesal, RW, Terranova, V, & Whalen, DH (2015). Responses of adults who stutter to the anticipation of stuttering. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 45, 38-51.
author names order by contribution, except * - indicates student author, + - indicates senior author