Faculty Profiles
Erin Connelly
Director of Clinical Education
Speech Language Pathology
Speech Language Pathology - Grad Studies
34 Madeleva Hall Suite 150
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Education
PhD Southern Illinois University Carbondale, expected graduation date Spring 2025
MA University of Northern Colorado 2001
BA California State University Fullerton 1998
Areas of Expertise
- Dysphagia in older adults
- Clinical Supervision and Education
- Cognitive Communication Disorders in older adults
- Auditory Processing Disorder and impact on speech and language
Research Interests
- Clinical Education
- Oral Health in Older Adults
- Auditory Processing Disorder
Courses Recently Taught
- Graduate Level: Advanced Clinical Practicum
- Graduate Level: Medical Aspects of Speech-Language Pathology
- Undergraduate Level: Clinical Methods and Practice
- Undergraduate Level: Speech and Hearing Science
- Undergraduate Level: Phonetics
Professional Experience
- Adult population: practiced in a variety of settings including acute care, acute inpatient rehabilitation, long-term care, outpatient, and home health settings
- Pediatric population: practiced in a variety of settings including outpatient, home health, and residential rehabilitation settings
Creative and Scholarly Work
- Dissertation in progress: Addressing the Oral health self-efficacy of nursing assistants toward their own oral health
- Clinical education research in progress: Analyzing the impact of formative assessment on summative assessment of speech pathology graduate students
Professional Memberships
Certification of Clinical Competence through the American Speech and Hearing Association