Research
Faculty Expertise
Angela Losardo
- Infant communication/preschool and school-age language disorders
- Alternative/cross-cultural assessment
- Comparative language/literacy intervention research
- Interdisciplinary personnel preparation
- Severe communication disorders/autism spectrum disorders
- Alternative/augmentative communication
- Hearing disorders
- Noise exposure
- Auditory electrophysiology
- Unilaterally/minimally hearing impaired
- School-age language disorders
- Instructional methods for children with language-learning disabilities
- Children and adults with language and literacy deficits
- Speech sound disorders
- Assessment methods
- Clinical education and supervision
- Aphasia, dysarthria, apraxia of speech, dysphagia
- Impairment level assessment and treatment (e.g., oral motor)
- Motor learning
- Articulation/phonological disorders
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Language and speech acquisition
- Speech disorders
- Stuttering
- Cluttering
- Counseling in communication sciences and disorders
- Employment factors for people with communication disorders
- Acquired communicative disorders
- Linguistic analyses
- Voice disorders
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Language acquisition
- Language disorders
- Mentoring students from culturally diverse populations
- Assessment and treatment of children from linguistically and culturally diverse populations
- Literacy
- Rural service delivery
Clinical Educator Expertise Bliss Hemric
- Preschool language disorders
- Early literacy
- Preschool screenings
- Speech sound disorders
- Early childhood professional collaboration
- Preschool articulation and language
- Feeding disorders in children
- Augmentative communication in preschool and school age children
- Speech and language issues related to genetic disorders
- Assessment of speech and language problems
- Clinical education and supervision
- Neurogenic communication disorders
- Head and neck cancers/laryngectomy
- Voice disorders
- School-age language
- Literacy
- Phonologic awareness
- Central auditory processing
- Brain-stem implants
- Neurogenic communication disorders
- Diagnostic/clinical processes/supervision
- Head and neck cancers/laryngectomy
- Orofacial myfunctional disorders
- Swallowing disorders
- Assessment and management of hearing disorders
- Effective clinical instruction techniques
- Language disorders in infant/toddler/preschool populations
- Instructional methods in preschool settings
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Down syndrome
- Emergent literacy
- Phonological disorders
CONTACT
losardoas [at] appstate [dot] edu (Angela Losardo)
Department Chair
127F Duncan Hall
Phone: 828-262-7182
Fax: 828-262-3153
wattsem [at] appstate [dot] edu (Eveline Watts)
Administrative Assistant
Edwin Duncan Hall, Room 124
Phone: 828-262-7182
Fax: 828-262-3153
