Emily Harrington is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education with a focus on early intervention and early childhood special education. She is a certified speech-language pathologist with experience working in early intervention, preschool classrooms, and private practice. 

Ph.D., Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2025

M.S., Speech-Language Pathology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2017

B.A., Communication Sciences and Disorders, Augustana College, 2015

Emily Harrington's long-term research goal is to develop brief, low-intensity, caregiver-implemented interventions for toddlers with language delays to expand families’ access to timely early intervention supports. Her interests include identifying which caregiver-implemented strategies are most effective in supporting language development across different developmental periods, how these strategies can be integrated into brief interventions and delivered in real-world contexts, and the impact of such interventions on both short- and long-term developmental outcomes for children and their families.

SPED 501 Child Development B to 3

SPED 503 Family-Centered Practices in Early Intervention