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Welcome to the official website of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. CSD is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of communication disorders, which includes hearing, speech, language, developmental problems, and related disorders.
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Staff

Director

Faculty Portrait

Brad Crowe, M.S., CCC-SLP

Instructor and Director of Speech and Hearing Center
B.A., University of Mississippi
M.S., University of Mississippi

Email: bcrowe@olemiss.edu
Phone: +1-662-915-5120
Office: 100D George Hall

Clinical Interests

  • Evaluation and Treatment of Stuttering
  • Evaluation and Treatment of Literacy Disorders

Research Interests

  • Evaluation and Treatment of Stuttering
  • Auditory Processing Disorder
   

Clinic Faculty

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Stephanie Beebe, M.S., CCC-SLP

Instructor / Speech-Language Pathologist

B.A., University of Mississippi
M.S., University of Alabama

Email: sbeebe@olemiss.edu
Phone: +1-662-915-5127
Office: 203 George Hall

Clinical Interests

  • Preschool and Early Elementary Articulation and Language Delays
  • Early Intervention
  • Teacher and Parent Training
  • Evaluative and Therapeutic Assessment
  • Cleft Lip and Palate

Research Interests

  • Effective/Efficient Supervision of Graduate Students
  • Language Intervention
   
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Christy Coker, M.C.D., CCC-SLP

Instructor / Speech-Language Pathologist

B.A., Louisiana State University, 1992
M.C.D., Louisiana State University Medical Center, 1994

Email: clcoker@olemiss.edu
Phone: +1-662-915-5126
Office: 307 George Hall

Clinical Interests

  • Evaluation Process of Preschool Age Children

   
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Amanda Tredway deVera, M.S., CCC-SLP

Instructor / Speech-Language Pathologist

B.A., Harding University
M.S., University of Mississippi

Email: atdevera@olemiss.edu
Phone: +1-662-915-1796
Office: 311 George Hall

Clinical Interests

  • Language Delays
  • Parent & Teacher Training
  • Autism

Research Interests

  • Autism
  • Developmental Delays
   
Faculty Portrait

Carolyn Wiles Higdon, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Fellow of the American Speech Language Hearing Association

B.S. Communicative Disorders, Kent State University
M.A. Communicative Disorders, Kent State University
Ed.D. Communicative Disorders, University of Georgia

Email: chigdon@olemiss.edu
Phone: +1-662-915-5682
Office: 304 George Hall

Research Interests

  • Augmentative and alternative communication
  • Pharmacology and communicative disorders
  • Speech science and voice disorders

Teaching Interests

  • Neuroscience
  • Research Design
  • Voice
   
David McElreath

Lennette Ivy, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Interim Chair, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders

B.S., Mississippi Valley State
M.S., University of Mississippi
Ph.D., University of Memphis

Email: livy@olemiss.edu
Phone: +1-662-915-5130
Office: 302 George Hall

Clinical Interests

  • Literacy disorders
  • Child Language disorders
  • Phonological disorders

Research Interests

  • Literacy and language development
  • Writing development in culturally and linguistically diverse populations

Teaching Interests

  • Phonological development and disorders
  • Language development and disorders
  • Language and literacy related issues
  • Sociocultural issues in communication
   
Faculty Portrait

Lisa Fratesi Ivy, M.S., CCC-SLP

Instructor / Speech-Language Pathologist

B.A., University of Mississippi
M.S., University of Mississippi

Member, American Speech Language Hearing Association
Member, International Association of Orofacial Myology

Email: lisaivy@olemiss.edu
Phone: +1-662-915-5291
Office: 206 George Hall

Clinical Interests

  • Language Delays
  • Early Intervention
  • Parent & Teacher Training
  • Articulation and Myofunctional Disorders

Research Interests

  • Myofunctional Disorders
   
Faculty Portrait

Rebecca Lowe, Au.D., CCC-A

Director of Audiology
Clinical Assistant Professor
Interim Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies

Doctorate of Audiology, Central Michigan University
M.A. Audiology- Kansas State University
B.A. University of Mississippi

Member of ASHA

Email: rl1@olemiss.edu
Phone: +1-662-915-7574
Office: 309 George Hall

Clinical Interests

  • Auditory Processing Disorders
  • Audiologic (Re)habilitation
  • Pediatric Audiology

Research Interests

  • Auditory Processing Disorders
  • Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
  • Audiologic duties performed by Speech-Language Pathologists (SLP)

Teaching Interests

  • Manual Communication
  • Audiologic (Re)habilitation
  • Advanced Practices in Audiology
  • Audiology for the SLP
   
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Greg Snyder, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Clinical Consultant

B.A. Psychology, Wheaton College
M.S. Communication Sciences & Disorders, East Carolina University
Ph.D., Communication Sciences & Disorders, East Carolina University

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
National Stuttering Association

Email: gsnyder@olemiss.edu
Phone: +1-662-915-1202
Office: 310 George Hall

Areas of Research and Clinical Interest

  • Neurotheoretical Models defining and developing the Etiology and Theory of Stuttering
  • Research & Clinical Development of the Enhanced Fluency Phenomenon
  • Research & Documentation of Fluency Disorders in Expressive Communication
  • The integration and application of motor theory across speech and language disorders
  • Developing clinical models of personal empowerment via the self-help movement
  • Interdisciplinary collaborative research on the generation of behavioral and prosthetic management methodologies
   
Faculty Portrait

Lollie Vaughan, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders

B.A., University of Southern Mississippi
M.S., Texas Christian University
Ph.D., Ohio University

Email: lvaughan@olemiss.edu
Phone: +1-662-915-5131
Office: 306 George Hall

Clinical Interests

  • Adult neuromotor speech disorders, voice disorders , dysphagia and fluency disorders

Research Interests

  • The use of visual feedback in treatment for apraxia of speech
  • The effects of successful aging strategies on cognitive-linguistic abilities in the elderly
  • The interaction of cognition & balance abilities in community-dwelling elderly persons
  • The effects of changes in rate, frequency, and intensity on intelligibility
  • The practice patterns for the use of oral motor exercises to treat neuromotor speech disorders
   
Faculty Portrait

Anne Lloyd Williams, Au.D., CCC-A

Clinical Audiologist and Instructor in Audiology

B.A. in Mass Communications, University of New Orleans
M.S. in Communication Disorders, University of Mississippi
Au.D., University of Florida

Email: alwillia@olemiss.edu
Phone: +1-662+915-7924
Office: 115 George Hall

Clinical Interests

  • Diagnostic Audiology
  • Hearing Aids

Research Interests

  • Au.D. programs
   
Faculty Portrait

Carolyn Wiles Higdon, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Fellow of the American Speech Language Hearing Association

B.S. Communicative Disorders, Kent State University
M.A. Communicative Disorders, Kent State University
Ed.D. Communicative Disorders, University of Georgia

Email: chigdon@olemiss.edu
Phone: +1-662-915-5682
Office: 304 George Hall

Research Interests

  • Augmentative and alternative communication
  • Pharmacology and communicative disorders
  • Speech science and voice disorders

Teaching Interests

  • Neuroscience
  • Research Design
  • Voice
   

Staff

Debbie Bishop

Clinical Records Coordinator
Speech and Hearing Center

Email: dchinaul@olemiss.edu
Phone: +1-662-915-7950
Office: 100C George Hall

   

Cheryl Martin

Clinical Records Clerk
Speech and Hearing Center

Email: cmartin@olemiss.edu
Phone: +1-662-915-7271
Office: 100A George Hall