The Bilingual Graduate Experience

October 1, 2010

Irmgard Payne, M.S. CCC-SLP, Bilingual Clinical Supervisor, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
Irmgard R. Payne is a clinical supervisor at the Miller Speech and Hearing Clinic on the Texas Christian University campus. She supervises the clinical practicum of undergraduate and graduate students and supervises graduate students in the Emphasis for Bilingual Speech-Language Pathology program. Interests [...]

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Facilitating Vocabulary in English Language-Learners

September 3, 2010

Carla Wood Jackson, Ph.D. CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor, School of Communication Science & Disorders at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Carla Wood Jackson, Ph.D. CCC-SLP is an assistant professor in the School of Communication Science & Disorders at Florida State University. Dr. Jackson’s teaching and research focuses on child language development and disorders. She has been a [...]

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Biculturalism: An Interview with Professor François Grosjean

August 2, 2010

François Grosjean, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
François Grosjean is Emeritus Professor of Psycholinguistics, Neuchâtel University, Switzerland. His specialty is psycholinguistics and his domains of interest are the perception, comprehension and production of language, be it speech or sign language, in monolinguals and bilinguals. He also has interests in biculturalism, applied linguistics, aphasia, sign [...]

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Budget Short Falls, Healthcare Reform, Economic Turmoil, Trillion Dollar Deficits!!!!!!!!!!!!!

July 6, 2010

Tim Starling, Division Director, Bilingual Therapies
Tim Starling is currently the Division Director of Bilingual Therapies. Tim received his introduction to healthcare in 2000 as a recruiter who placed neurological, orthopedic, and general surgeons in some of the country’s leading hospital systems. He later joined Soliant Health where he pioneered the schools division that places speech, [...]

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ASHA’s Newest Division: Division 17 Global Issues in Communication Science and Related Disorders

June 2, 2010

Marlene B. Salas-Provance, Ph.D., F-CCC-SLP, Director of the Program in Communication Disorders, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Dr. Salas-Provance currently serves as Director of the Program in Communication Disorders at New Mexico State University.  She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from New Mexico State University, her doctorate in speech-language pathology from the [...]

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Bilingualism and Children with Language and/or Cognitive Disabilities

May 3, 2010

Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Professor, School of Human Communication Disorders, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Dr. Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird (Ph.D. Madison, Wisconsin) is a Professor in the School of Human Communication Disorders at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her research and teaching is in the area of child language development and [...]

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