Ruth H. Bahr - Routledge Handbook of Communication Disorders

Elena Babatsouli
Elena Babatsouli was born and raised in Greece. She has a BA in English (Honours) from Royal Holloway, University of London, a MA in European Languages and Business from London South Bank University and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Crete. Her doctoral thesis was on her daughters Greek/English bilingual phonological development. Her research interests are in the acquisition and use of monolingual and bilingual speech, in children and adults, normal and disordered. Currently, she is Director of the Institute of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech in Chania, Greece.

Steven M. Barlow
Steven M. Barlow is the Corwin Moore Professor of Special Education and Communication Disorders, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, and the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior. His team studies the neurobiology and plasticity of orofacial and hand sensorimotor systems across the lifespan. A recent NIH-funded project led to a new FDA-approved therapy using pulsed somatosensory stimulation to facilitate oral feeding skills and brain development in preterm infants. A variant of this approach using dynamic somatosensory fields is being implemented to map (fNIRS, fMRI, MEG, EEG) the brain for velocity encoding, with neurotherapeutic applications in stroke and traumatic brain injury.

Deryk Beal
Deryk Beal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and the Executive Director of the Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Alberta. He is also a member of the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute. Dr. Beals research focuses on combining neuroimaging and genetics to understand how genes influence the development of the brain network for speech motor control and its related pathologies.

Virginia W. Berninger
Virginia W. Berninger, PhD, Psychology (Johns Hopkins University), is Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development, University of Washington, a licensed clinical psychologist, and former teacher who is Principal Investigator for the University of Washington NICHD-funded Interdisciplinary Learning Disabilities Center on Defining and Treating Specific Learning Disabilities. She is author of Interdisciplinary Frameworks for Schools: Best Professional Practices for Serving the Needs of All Students (American Psychological Association) and co-editor of Arf, Dockrell, and Berninger, Writing Development in Children with Hearing Loss, Dyslexia, or Oral Language Problems: Implications for Assessment and Instruction (Oxford University Press), and McCardle and Berninger, Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Native American Students: Paying the Educational Debt (Routledge).

Marcelo L. Berthier
Marcelo L. Berthier is Professor of Neurology and Director of the Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit at the University of Malaga, Spain. His current research involves cognitive and neuroimaging studies on aphasia mainly focusing on the development of interventions combining cognitive enhancing drugs and aphasia therapy. He is also involved in research dealing with the neural basis of language repetition and in examining the benefits provided by repetition-imitation in speech production deficits among aphasic patients.

Alexis Bosseler
Alexis Bosseler is a cognitive neuroscientist with a PhD in Speech and Hearing Sciences. Her research, which utilizes behavioral measures and neurophysiological methods (event-related potentials/electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography), focuses on the development of language processing systems in infants. She has also conducted research on the speech processing skills of children with autism.

Bonnie Brinton
Bonnie Brinton is Professor of Communication Disorders at Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, Utah. Her work focuses on assessment and intervention with children who experience difficulty with social communication. She has served as Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Research Scientist at the Schiefelbusch Institute for Lifespan Studies at the University of Kansas, Associate Dean, McKay School of Education at BYU, and Dean of Graduate Studies at BYU. She has been an Associate Editor for the journal Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools . She is a Fellow of the American SpeechLanguageHearing Association.

Megan C. Brown
Megan C. Brown earned her PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of WisconsinMadison. Her research interests include the influence of dialect variation on language and literacy skills for adults and children.

Lindsey J. Byom
Lindsey J. Byom, PhD, is a postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Womens Health Research at the University of WisconsinMadison. Her research focuses on links between social cognition and social communication outcomes in adults with traumatic brain injury.

Kate Cain
Kate Cain is Professor of Language and Literacy in the Department of Psychology at Lancaster University. Her research focuses on how language skills and cognitive resources influence reading and listening comprehension development and how weaknesses in these contribute to reading comprehension problems. Her books include Understanding and Teaching Reading Comprehension: A Handbook (Routledge) and Reading Development and Difficulties (Wiley-Blackwell). She is the Editor of Scientific Studies of Reading .

Giselle D. Carnaby
Giselle D. Carnaby, MPH, PhD, SLP-CCC, FASHA, is speech pathologist, public health epidemiologist and Co-director of the Swallowing Research Laboratory at the University of Florida. Since 2000, she has been on faculty at the University of Florida and held appointments in the Departments of Communicative Disorders, Behavioral Science-Public Health and Psychiatry. She teaches and specializes in research methodology and biostatistics. She is a well-recognized researcher in dysphagia with over 30 years experience in the evaluation and management of swallowing disorders. She specializes in the areas of stroke and head/neck cancer, and has a strong track record of research funding and publication.