Utah. Her work focuses on assessment and intervention with children who experience difficulty with social communication. Dr Brinton has been a professor at the University of Nevada, a research scientist at the Schiefelbusch Institute for Lifespan Studies, University of Kansas, and Dean of Graduate Studies at BYU. She is a fellow of the American Speech‐Language‐Hearing Association and received Honors of the Association in 2019.
Chris Code is Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology, Washington Singer Labs, University of Exeter, England. He is the Foundation Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Sydney and past Research Manager for Speakability, and Patron of AphasiaNow. He is also co‐founding Editor of the journal Aphasiology. His research interests include the cognitive neuroscience of language and speech, psychosocial consequences of aphasia, recovery and treatment of aphasia, the evolution of speech and language, number processing, and apraxia.
Louise Cummings is Professor in the Department of English and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Humanities at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She teaches and conducts research in pragmatics, clinical linguistics, and health reasoning. She is the author and editor of 18 books, including most recently Fallacies in Medicine and Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Language in Dementia (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Pragmatic Language Disorders (Springer, 2021). She is editor of the book series Routledge Research in Speech‐Language Pathology. Louise Cummings has been a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge University. She is a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, the Health & Care Professions Council in the UK, and the Hong Kong Academy of Humanities.
Holly Damico is an Associate Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and a Hawthorne‐BoRSF Endowed Professor. She co‐founded and co‐directs the Summer Language and Literacy Project. Her clinical and research interests include language and literacy acquisition and intervention as contextualized and social transactional processes, with a focus on qualitative research methods. She has authored and co‐authored 18 peer‐reviewed book chapters and articles in those areas. She received the 2017–18 Rising Star Researcher Award in Liberal Arts at UL Lafayette.
Jack S. Damico is a clinical linguist and a speech‐language pathologist with a Master’s degree in communicative disorders and a PhD in linguistics. With over 12 years of clinical experience as a speech‐language pathologist in the public schools, medical settings, and in private practice, his research focuses on the authentic implications for individuals with atypical language and communication skills, and on the development of clinical applications to assist in overcoming communicative problems. Working primarily in the areas of aphasia in adults and language and literacy difficulties in children from both monolingual and bilingual backgrounds, he specializes in the utilization of various qualitative research methodologies to investigate language and communication as social action. An ASHA Fellow, he is the co‐editor of the Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders. He has recently joined the University of Colorado Boulder faculty after 28 years as the Doris B. Hawthorne Eminent Scholar Chair at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Kathryn D. R. Drager, PhD, CCC‐SLP, is a Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the College of Health and Human Development, at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include AAC for individuals with severe expressive communication disorders, especially for children, adolescents, and adults with severe disabilities who are at the beginning stages of communication, including children with autism. She is also interested in issues faced by the global community in AAC. She has more than 60 publications and over 160 presentations at local, national, and international conferences. She has served several terms and is currently on the Associate Editor board of Augmentative and Alternative Communication.
Erinn H. Finke, PhD, CCC‐SLP, is an Associate Professor of Audiology and Speech Pathology, at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Her research is focused on understanding and improving friendship outcomes and interactions for individuals with autism spectrum disorder, including those who use augmentative and alternative communication. She is also interested in how technology (games and applications) can be used to provide a supportive context for social interactions. She has more than 20 publications and over 60 presentations at local, national, and international conferences. She is currently a Section Editor for the American Journal of Speech‐Language Pathology.
Paul Fletcher is Emeritus Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland. He previously held professorial positions at the University of Reading and the University of Hong Kong. He has published widely on language development and language impairment in children learning English, and more recently in children acquiring Cantonese and Mandarin. His primary research interest is the acquisition of grammar, but he has also worked on vocabulary, particularly the assessment of vocabulary development in young children via parent report. He is a past president of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, and an honorary member of the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists.
Martin Fujiki is professor emeritus at Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, Utah. His work focuses on social competence in children with developmental language disorders. Dr Fujiki has been a professor at the University of Nevada and BYU, and a research scientist at the Schiefelbusch Institute for Lifespan Studies, University of Kansas. He is a fellow of the American Speech‐Language‐Hearing Association and received Honors of the Association in 2015.
Robert Brinton Fujiki earned a BFA in Music‐Dance Theater and an MS in Communication Disorders from Brigham Young University. He is currently a PhD candidate at Purdue University. He has clinical and research experience in voice and swallowing disorders in adults and children.
Sandra L. Gillam is a Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University, and a past Vice President for Speech Language Pathology Practice for the American Speech Language Association. She holds a PhD from the University of Memphis. Her research interests include assessment and intervention of language and literacy impairments, multicultural populations, and processes involved in text comprehension. Sandi was the PI on a Goal II IES grant to develop narrative intervention procedures, and is currently Co‐PI on a Goal III grant to conduct a randomized controlled trial of the narrative program.
Katarina L. Haley, PhD, CCC‐SLP, is Professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She holds PhD and MS degrees from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and a BS from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. She teaches courses on neurological communication disorders, particularly aphasia. She specializes in assessment and treatment of adults with left hemisphere brain lesions. Her research focuses on speech production, apraxia of speech, development of quantitative speech assessment procedures, and client‐centered treatment.
Archie B. Harmon is an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis. Dr Harmon is a fellowship‐trained speech pathologist with clinical expertise in voice therapeutic outcomes, the aging larynx, and paradoxical vocal fold motion. His research interests include voice treatment adherence and voice therapy outcomes.
Ingo Hertrich is Professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany, working as lecturer in phonetics and phonology at the Linguistics Department, and researcher in Neurobiology of Language at the Department of Neurology and Stroke and the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research. He holds a PhD from the University of Munich in physical anthropology. He has published in the fields of acoustic phonetics, kinematic analysis of speech articulation, voice analysis, magnetoencephalography, functional magnetic resonance
