All faculty maintain a level of scholarly activity that is consistent with their university appointment and program objectives. The faculty with doctorates hold appointments in the graduate school, maintain active research laboratories and mentor advanced Masters and Ph.D. students. Each of these faculty members has established a particular line of research. Professional interests are in neurological disorders of speech, voice, and swallowing in children and adults. Current research projects include development of functional outcome scales for dysphagia treatment, design and evaluation of direct therapies for neurogenic dysphagia, evidenced-based assessment of clinical practices, and evaluation of medical surgical treatments for voice disorders.
Professional interests are in dysphagia and management of geriatric communicative disorders.
Focus is on medical speech-language pathology. Current research includes effects of perinatal HIV exposure and pharmacokinetics on language acquisition and the co-morbidity of language disorders in the ADHD population.