PhD

SLHS Interim Department Chair and Associate Professor Emerita

Educational background

• Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, University of Chicago, Dissertation: The Development of Context Effects in Spoken Word Recognition.

Classes taught

• Introduction to Communication Science and Disorders
• Introduction to Human Language
• Normal Language Acquisition
• Speech Perception
• Psycholinguistics
• Individual Differences in Language Acquisition

Research interests

• Early language acquisition
• Lexical development
• Language acquisition in autistic children