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| Leadership Administrative Staff: | Associate Professor, Communication Science and Disorders Department
Director of Clinical Education, Communication Science and Disorders Department |
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| Primary Activity Coordinators: |
Clinical Services |
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| Discipline Coordinators: |
Speech-Language Pathology |
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| Discipline(s): |
Speech-Language Pathology |
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| AUCD Council Membership: |
No Council Membership |
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| Research: | >Speech/language assessment and treatment for infants, toddlers & preschoolers with special needs.
>Clinical instruction strategies for working effetively with graduate student clinicians | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Education: | Ph.D., Degree in Speech Pathology -- Purdue University
M.A. Degree in Speech Pathology -- San Diego State University B.A. Degree in Communication Sciences -- University of California Santa Barbara | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Service: | >VP of Communication -- Council on Academic Programs in Communication Science and Disorders
>President of Monarch Parent Foundation | ||||||||||||||||||||
Vita/Bio
Cheryl Messick serves as the Director of Clinical Education in the Department of Communication Science and Disorders overseeing all aspects of clinical education for master's level speech/language pathology graduate students and clinical doctor of audiology students. She has presented at national conferences on processes involved in clinical education/supervision and has served as a consultant to several University programs regarding methods for optimizing clinical education. Dr. Messick is a faculty member of the LEND Center of PIttsburgh, a Maternal and Infant Health funded LEND center at the University of Pittsburgh. Through LEND she teaches processes of multidisciplinary team-based and family-centered services. Dr. Messick has provided consultation services to the state office of Developmental Disability Services to increase adjudicator understanding of speech/language disorders. Her clinical interests focus on providing speech/language services to young children and in particular to children with developmental disabilities.