Faculty and Staff

Faculty

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Rodney Gabel, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow

Vice Chair, Faculty Senate; Professor and Founding Director of SLP

Faculty Senate; Division of Speech and Language Pathology; Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Psychological and social adjustment in people who stutter
  • Occupational experiences of people who stutter
  • Social stereotyping and stigma related to stuttering
  • Clinical outcomes research
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Reethee Antony, PhD, CCC-SLP

Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences; Division of Speech and Language Pathology
BJC 206

Research Interests

  • Speech perception
  • Electrophysiology and neuroimaging, specifically using cortical evoked potentials
  • Neurogenic communication disorders
  • Non-native speech perception
  • Multilingualism
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Tina Caswell, MS, CCC-SLP

Director of Clinical Education and Clinical Associate Professor

Division of Speech and Language Pathology
BJC 205

Research Interests

  • Persons who use augmentative and alternative communication
  • Social and emotional communication development
  • Counseling in speech-language pathology
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Joanne Crowson, AuD, CCC-A/SLP

Clinical Instructor

Division of Speech and Language Pathology
BJC 210

Research Interests

  • Perception of individuals with hearing loss
  • Use of hearing assistive technology
  • Counseling in audiology
  • Supervision and professional interests
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Cody Dew, MA, CCC-SLP

Assistant Professor

Division of Speech and Language Pathology; Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
BJC 212

Research Interests

  • Stuttering and fluency disorders
  • Therapeutic interventions
  • Counseling
  • Social and emotional impact of disability
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Dawna Duff, PhD, CCC-SLP

Associate Professor

Division of Speech and Language Pathology; Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
BJC 221

Research Interests

  • Individual differences in vocabulary and word learning
  • Factors affecting reading comprehension
  • Relationships between reading and vocabulary
  • Intervention research in educationally based SLP
  • Developmental language disorder, dyslexia
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Marisa Mooney, MS, CCC-SLP

Clinical Instructor

Division of Speech and Language Pathology; Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
BJC 216

Research Interests

  • Caregiver perspectives of child language development
  • Birth to 5 language development
  • Professional issues
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Cassandra Natali, MS, CCC-SLP

Clinical Instructor

Division of Speech and Language Pathology; Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
BJC 215

Research Interests

  • Social-emotional, trauma-informed practices for school-based populations
  • Social skills as a relation to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
  • Counseling in speech-language pathology
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Kara Nunn, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL

Clinical Instructor

Division of Speech and Language Pathology; Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
BJC 204

Research Interests

  • Apraxia (CAS)
  • Professional issues
  • Persons who use augmentative and alternative communication
  • Language literacy development in children and adolescents
  • Autism spectrum disorders social skill development
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Tia M. Spagnuolo, MS, CCC-SLP

Assistant Professor

Division of Speech and Language Pathology

Research Interests

  • Healthcare experiences of minoritized individuals
  • Intersectional healthcare
  • Gender-affirming voice and communication
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Jessica Underwood, MA, CCC, SLP

Clinical Instructor

Division of Speech and Language Pathology
BJC 214

Research Interests

  • Adults with communication and swallowing disorders
  • Professional issues
  • Socioemotional impact of communication disorders
  • Augmentative communication in the adult aphasic population
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Sundeep Venkatesan, MS, CCC-SLP

Assistant Professor

Division of Speech and Language Pathology; Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
BJC 213

Research Interests

  • Adults with swallowing disorders
  • Adults with neurocognitive communication disorders
  • Professional issues
  • Interdisciplinary work with nursing, occupational therapy and physical therapy in the area of swallowing, dementia and neurocognitive communication disorders
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Staff

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Nicolle M. Nestler, MPH

Coordinator of Speech and Language Pathology Division

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences; Division of Speech and Language Pathology
BJC 203