Dr. Dana Kovarsky received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in Communicative Sciences and Disorders. At the University of Rhode Island, he has taught courses in child language development and disorders, communication processes, cultural and linguistic diversity, and qualitative research methods.
As an ethnographer of communication disorders, his research has focused on the clinical discourse practices of professionals working in a variety of assessment and intervention contexts. He has received federal funding for a model demonstration project that evaluates the effectiveness of an instructional approach designed to meet the language and emergent literacy needs of preschoolers involved in Head Start. He has also served as a consultant for a project that examines professional-parent interaction in the identification of neonatal hearing loss.
Fall Semester Courses 2007
- CMD 374 Communication Process
11:00am-12:15pm Tuesdays & Thursdays
- CMD 491 Special Problems
- CMD 492 Special Problems
- CMD 493 Cultural and Linguistics Diversity in Communicative Disorders
4:30pm-7:15pm Wednesdays
- CMD 598 Special Problems