Faculty and Staff

Research Interests

• Psychological and social adjustment in people who stutter
• Occupational experiences of people who stutter
• Social stereotyping and stigma related to stuttering
• Clinical outcomes research

Research Interests

• Persons who use augmentative and alternative communication
• Social and emotional communication development
• Counseling in speech-language pathology

Research Interests

• Stuttering and fluency disorders
• Therapeutic interventions
• Counseling
• Social and emotional impact of disability

Research Interests

• Individual differences in vocabulary and word learning
• Factors affecting reading comprehension
• Relationships between reading and vocabulary
• Intervention research in educationally based SLP
• Developmental language disorder, dyslexia

Research Interests

• Preschool language development

• Caregiver perspectives of child language development

Research Interests

• Social-emotional, trauma-informed practices for school-based populations
• Social skills as a relation to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
• Counseling in speech-language pathology

Research Interests

• Apraxia (CAS)
• Professional issues
• Persons who use augmentative and alternative communication
• Language literacy development in children and adolescents
• Autism spectrum disorders social skill development

Research Interests

• Language sampling
  
• Development of writing in children with and without developmental language disorders
• Diagnostic accuracy of assessment measures
• Interprofessional education/practice
• Developmental language disorder
• Emergent literacy

Research Interests

• Counseling in speech-language pathology
  
• Interprofessional collaboration and education
• Socio-emotional issues and communication disorders

Research Interests

• Adults with communication and swallowing disorders
  
• Professional issues
• Socioemotional impact of communication disorders
• Augmentative communication in the adult aphasic population

Research Interests

• Adults with swallowing disorders
• Adults with neurocognitive communication disorders
• Professional issues
• Interdisciplinary work with nursing, occupational therapy and physical therapy in the area of swallowing, dementia and neurocognitive communication disorders