Resources

Dr. Zraick is Director of Communication Sciences and Disorders, at University of Central Florida. We talk with him about understanding health literacy.

Mitzi Brammer, PhD, CCC-SLP is currently assistant professor and graduate program director at Saint Louis University. Her research interests include language and literacy connections, student resilience, and generational differences in learning in higher education.

Stephanie De Anda, PhD CCC-SLP, is an Assistant Professor of Communication Disorders and Sciences at the University of Oregon. Her research interests include understanding language acquisition in typically and atypically developing English- and Spanish-speaking monolingual and bilingual children.

Read our interview with Dr. Ding, Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Elmhurst College. She has worked as a speech-language pathologist in various clinical settings, including acute care hospital, sub-acute rehab center, long-term rehab center, and pediatric outpatient clinic.

Ryan Lee-James, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Adelphi University. Her work contributes to the larger body of research focused on better understanding the impact of African American English dialect use on assessment and treatment of language disorders for children reared in poverty.

Read our interview with Kerri Phillips, SLP.D., a Professor and Program Director of the Graduate Program in Speech-Language Pathology at Louisiana Tech University. She is a past member of the Louisiana licensure board, having served as Chair and Vice Chair.

Read our interview with Dr. Joy Good, Associate Professor at Arkansas State University. She has over 20 years of experience in the field, including nearly a decade as a public school-based clinician. Her research focus deals with written language issues pertaining to the school-age population.

Read our interview with Dr. Jessica Caron, an Assistant Professor at Penn State University. Her work is focused on improving outcomes for learners with high-intensity needs who require AAC. More specifically her research seeks to improve poor literacy outcomes for individuals who use AAC.

Read our interview with Dr. Leah Fabiano-Smith, whose research focuses on phonological acquisition and disorders in bilingual Spanish-English speaking children and clinical issues related to culturally and linguistically diverse populations.