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Leslie Mahler, PhD, CCC-SLP, MBA
Assistant Professor

Leslie Mahler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders. Leslie obtained her BA from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1975, an MA in Speech and Hearing Science from the University of the Pacific - Stockton, CA in 1977, and an MBA from Drake University in Des Moines, IA in 1987.

Leslie worked as a clinical speech-language pathologist primarily in a hospital setting treating adults with neurological disorders prior to enrolling in a dual PhD program in Speech Science and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2001. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Rhode Island in 2007, she was a member of Dr. Lorraine Ramig's research team examining the efficacy of intensive behavioral voice treatment for individuals with Parkinson disease. She teaches courses in cognitive disorders, voice disorders, dysphagia, motor speech aspects of communication, and phonetics. Leslie's current research interests are in the area of behavioral treatment of dysarthria following stroke and intensive voice treatment for individuals with Parkinson disease and individuals with unilateral vocal fold paralysis.

Fall Semester Courses 2007
  • CMD 373 Phonetics
    2:00pm-3:15pm Tuesdays & Thursdays
  • CMD 491 Special Problems
  • CMD 492 Special Problems
  • CMD 581 Dysphagia
    7:00pm-9:45pm Thursdays
  • CMD 598 Special Problems
Graduate programs in Speech & Language Pathology and Audiology are accredited by the
Council on Academic Acreditation of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

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