College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders faculty areas of expertise focus on speech, language, cognitive function, and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Faculty

Elizabeth Adams

Clinical Professor

Expertise

Educational leadership and policy studies, faculty mentoring, curriculum development and instructional design, evidence-based practice, clinical education and practice in audiology.

Noma Anderson

Professor, Emerita

Expertise

Research focuses: Inclusive education, cultural and linguistic diversity.

Kim R. Bauerly

Associate Professor

Expertise

Developmental stuttering across the lifespan, group treatment for adolescents and adults who stutter, psychophysiology (EDA/RSA), kinematic analysis (Wav), acoustic analysis.

Sara Benham

Assistant Professor

Expertise

Word and sound learning in early development, developmental language disorder, speech sound disorders, acoustic analysis, phonetic transcription, network science

Molly H. Bumpas

Clinical Associate Professor

Expertise

Assessment and treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), multidisciplinary diagnostic team at the Autism Assessment Clinic in the Vermont Center for Children, Youth & Families, parent/caregiver training for young children with ASD.

Michael S. Cannizzaro

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs • Associate Professor • Department Chair

Expertise

Analysis of prefrontal cortical function as measured by functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), task-related processing load during discourse / complex communication, comparison of discourse performance in brain injured and typical adults,...

Emily L. Coderre

Associate Professor • Program Director, Interprofessional Health Sciences (IHS) Ph.D. Program

Expertise

Language, Autism, Electroencephalography (EEG), Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

Sharon Cote

Clinical Professor

Expertise

Speech sound disorders, language and literacy

Sarah Curran

Clinical Assistant Professor

Expertise
  • Augmentative and alternative communication assessment and intervention
  • Autism spectrum disorders

Tiffany Hutchins

Associate Professor

Expertise

Parent/child interaction strategies, assessment and treatment of autobiographical memory and social cognition in developmental disabilities, the use of conversation analysis for revealing pragmatic and communicative strengths in individuals with...

Danra Kazenski

Clinical Professor

Expertise

Clinical supervision and education of students working with children and adults who stutter, facilitation of stuttering support groups for Vermonters of all ages who stutter, implementation research on the effectiveness of the Lidcombe Program...

Darin Woolpert

Senior Lecturer • Director of the SLPA and SLP Pre-Master's Track Programs

Expertise

Literacy development in bilingual children, cross-linguistic activation in bilingual children, reading comprehension, written expression, narrative development, perinatal stroke, developmental language disorder, child language assessment,...