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Communication Sciences & Disorders Faculty

Daniel Kempler
Chair and Professor (2002)
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
http://blog.emerson.edu/daniel_kempler/overview.html

Respected researcher, author, lecturer and teacher, Dr. Kempler is a specialist in acquired neurologically based communicative disorders in adults. He the author or co-author of well over 100 scholarly articles, abstracts, chapters, books and reviews including presentations of his research at dozens of conferences nationally and internationally in the areas of aphasia, dementia, Parkinson's disease, aging, and culturally non-biased assessments. His research has appeared in journals such as Brain and Language, Aphasiology, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry, and Behavioral Neurology, Archives of Neurology, and Journal of Speech and Hearing Research. Dr. Kempler has recently written a textbook Neurocognitive Disorders in Aging (Sage Publications, 2005), and together with his colleague Zoe Hunter authored The Spanish Intelligibility Test (2004), an assessment tool to evaluate speech intelligibility in Spanish speakers.


Full Time Faculty

Daniel Kempler, Chair and Professor

Cynthia Bartlett, Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor

Amit Bajaj, Associate Professor

Timothy Edgar, Graduate Program Director for the Health Communication Program and Associate Professor

Belinda Fusté-Herrmann, Assistant Professor

Ruth Grossman, Assistant Professor

Jon Honea, Scientist-in-Residence

Vinoth Jagaroo, Associate Professor

David Luterman, Professor Emeritus


David Maxwell, Professor

Eileen McBride, Scholar-In-Residence

Tracy McLaughlin-Volpe, Assistant Professor

Alisa Morgan, Faculty-In-Residence

Wyatt Oswald, Assistant Professor
On Leave

Mark Parker, Assistant Professor

Eiki Satake, Associate Professor

Amy Vashlishan Murray, Assistant Professor

Julie Volkman, Assistant Professor

Part Time Faculty
Maria Armour
Cathy Bakkensen
Thomas Bicki
Keiko Brynildsen
Carol Cayer-Meade
Laura Glufling-Tham
Wende Grass
David Kociemba
Lisa Lavoie
Rochelle Lipschultz
Betsy Micucci
Joe Moran
Benjamin Papandrea
John Pirone
Marnie Reed
Richard Shupert
Thomas Smithyman
Sandra Cohn Thau
Nancy Vincent
Carol Zurek
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