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Research Interests

My research focuses on augmentative and alternative communication. Specifically, my research focuses on improving interventions and technologies to support communication, language, and literacy outcomes for individuals with disabilities and complex communication needs. Additionally, my research considers the improvement of intervention accessibility in lower resource communities/countries.

Teaching

SHS 473 - Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Grants

ASHFoundation Student Research Grant in Early Childhood Language Development (2023-2024)

  • Parent tele-training to support child language outcomes by utilizing augmentative and alternative communication

Honors & Awards

ASHFoundation New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarship (2023-2024)

Sertoma Communicative Sciences and Disorders Scholarship (2023-2024)

Penn State AAC Doctoral Leadership Grant Fellowship (2022-2024)

University of Wisconsin at Madison Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities Fellowship (2020-2021)

Education/Academic qualification

Communication Sciences and Disorders, PhD, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Pennsylvania State University

Aug 21 2021May 10 2024

Award Date: Aug 10 2024

Speech Language Pathology, MS, Pennsylvania State University

Aug 19 2017May 10 2020

Award Date: May 10 2020

Psychology, BSc Hons, University of York

Sep 1 2012Jun 1 2015

Keywords

  • RZ Other systems of medicine
  • Speech-Language Pathology
  • Adaptive Materials
  • communication
  • language development
  • literacy
  • technology
  • augmentative and alternative communication

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