Position:
Speech-Language Pathology Member of Advisory Committee to Office of Special Licensing at AZ Dept of Health Services, Visiting Professor Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northern Arizona University, Speech-Language Pathology Specialist at Scottsdale Unified School District, Proprietor; Speech-Language Pathologist at Academic, Speech and Language Therapies
Location:
Phoenix, Arizona Area
Industry:
Education Management
Work:
AZ Dept of Health Services since Jul 2008
Speech-Language Pathology Member of Advisory Committee to Office of Special Licensing
Northern Arizona University since Jul 2007
Visiting Professor Communication Sciences and Disorders
Scottsdale Unified School District since Apr 2005
Speech-Language Pathology Specialist
Academic, Speech and Language Therapies since 2005
Proprietor; Speech-Language Pathologist
California State University, Los Angeles Jan 2003 - Jul 2004
Assistant Professor
Education:
Arizona State University 1996 - 2002
Ph.D., Language and Literacy
University of Louisiana at Lafayette 1976 - 1978
M.S., Communicative DisordersAmerican Speech-Language-Hearing Association Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology
University of Louisiana at Lafayette 1971 - 1974
B.A., Speech and Hearing TherapyDouble major in Speech and Hearing Therapy and Secondary Speech Education; Minor in Psychology
Skills:
American Speech-Language-Hearing Disorders (ASHA) Certificate of Clinical Competence
ASHA Board Recognized Specialist--Fluency Disorders
Evaluation and treatment of stuttering in preschool and school-aged children
Oral and written language disorders in preschool and school-aged children
such as dyslexia
learning disabilities
stuttering
literacy-based interventions
language sampling and analysis
Ethnographic research
Interests:
theories of language acquisition and development; disorders of reading and writing in school-aged children; delayed language acquisition in toddlers and preschoolers; pediatric stuttering