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Amy L. Weiss


Dr. Amy L. Weiss is a Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Rhode Island where she teaches courses in language disorders of children across the age gamut from infants and toddlers (CMD 563) to preschoolers (CMD 584) through school-age children (CMD 564), phonological disorders (CMD 561), fluency disorders (CMD 592), and occasionally multicultural issues (CMD 493) when scheduling permits in the summer sessions. A former NIH grant recipient, Dr. Weiss is also a Board Recognized Specialist in Child Language (ASHA), the author of two texts, Resource Guide on Preschool Language Disorders (Thomson Learning), and Perspectives on Individual Differences Affecting Therapeutic Change in Communication Disorders,an edited text published by Psychology Press, many book chapters, and more than 30 journal articles.

She is the past Chairperson of the ASHA Board of Division Coordinators and serves as secretary of the International Fluency Association. Her career experiences in the clinic have included direction of a language-based preschool classroom, providing hospital-based services, and the clinical training of hundreds of graduate students at Purdue University, the University of Colorado, and the University of Iowa, prior to arriving in Rhode Island for the fall, 2004 semester. Dr. Weiss was first awarded the Certificate of Clinical Competence in SLP in 1977 and is a licensed speech-language pathologist in the state of Rhode Island.

Recent Publications

Weiss, A. (2010). Comprehension of language. In B. Shulman & N. Capone (Eds.). Language development: Foundations, processes and clinical applications (pp. 297-328). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett.

Weiss, A. (2009, 6th edition). Planning language intervention for young children. In D. Bernstein & E. Tiegerman-Farber (Eds.), Language and communication disorders in children (pp. 436-495). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Weiss, A. (2007). Personal factors and their influence on speech acquisition. In S. McLeod (Ed.), The international guide to speech acquisition (pp. 91-95). Clifton Park, NY: Thomson Delmar Learning.

Weiss, A. & Kovarsky, D. (2007). Stories of origin and transition in the lives of persons who stutter. In J. Au-Yeung & M. Leahy (Eds.), Research, treatment, and self-help in fluency disorders: New horizons (pp. 313-319). The Proceedings of the Fifth World Congress on Fluency Disorders. London: The International Fluency Association.

NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Welcome to spring semester, 2012!

Keep watching for an announcement about our first meeting of our local chapter of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NSSLHA) in 2012. Our first meeting of the academic year was held Tuesday, September 20th in the Galanti Lounge of the Carothers Library and was attended by over 100 undergraduate and graduate students! We greatly appreciated the participation of members of the Rhode Island Speech and Hearing Association's board who facilitated one of our discussion sections. At our upcoming meeting we will be voting on new by-laws and learning about plans for the spring semester.

 

For those of you who attended the talk given by Dr. Lynne E. Hewitt, Bowling Green State University, titled "Supporting Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Post-secondary Education" on Monday, October 17th, here is a URL that will take you to Dr. Hewitt's web site. Copy and paste the address to your browser then look for the highlighted link to her presentation on her page if you want to print yourself a copy of her slides: http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/cdis/page36445.html.

 

Check out our updated table of graduate student student outcomes: PRAXIS examination, graduation, and employment rates by linking to:

Why CMD at URI? - Communicative Disorders - University of Rhode Island

 

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