Elizabeth Connors
Elizabeth "Billie" Connors is an ASHA certified and Rhode Island State licensed Speech/Language Pathologist. She is the clinical director in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Rhode Island, teaches courses in clinical methods and phonology, and supervises graduate student clinicians, primarily in diagnostic experiences. Her clinical interests center on children with language and literacy issues, those with phonological disorders and childhood apraxia of speech, adults with neurological disorders, as well as ESL adults. Ms. Connors has been the clinical director at URI since 1986, having come from a similar position at Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan.
In addition to being a member of ASHA, Ms. Connors is a member of the Rhode Island Speech/Language/Hearing Association, holds a position on the Board of Examiners in Speech Pathology and Audiology in Rhode Island, is a member of the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS), and is on the newsletter committee of ANCDS.
Recent presentations have focused on supervision of the graduate clinician, as well as a workshop presented to Literacy Volunteers of America on phonetics, with emphasis on working with the ESL client. Ms. Connors coauthored Affective Communication in Normal and Brain-Damaged Adults: An Overview with Dr. Colleen Karow published in Seminars in Speech and Language, May 2003.
Ms. Connors received the University of Rhode Island Administrative Excellence Award in 2006 for her outstanding work as director of the Speech and Hearing Center.
Courses Taught- CMD 465 Clinical Methods in Communicative Disorders
- CMD 492 Special Problems
- CMD 561 Phonological Disorders
- CMD 570 Clinical Practicum in Communicative Disorders
- CMD 598 Special Problems
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
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
