Dr. Kathleen Durant
Speech Pathology and Audiology
Assistant Professor
Campus:
麻豆影院
Office Location:
A140 Center for Performing Arts
Biography
Dr. Durant is an assistant professor in the Speech Pathology and Audiology program in the School of Health Sciences, College of Education, Health and Human Services. She teaches graduate courses focusing on developmental and acquired cognitive and communication disorders and is a member of the Brain Health Research Institute at 麻豆影院. She is the director of Learning Outcomes, Cognitive Abilities, and Language (LOCAL) lab, where she investigates the influence of nonverbal cognition on encoding language information in children鈥檚 first and second languages. She has shown that bilingual performance reflects both evaluation task type and distributed language-learning opportunities.
Education
Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis, 2017
M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology, University of Memphis, 2013
B.A. in Linguistics Ohio State University, 2009
M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology, University of Memphis, 2013
B.A. in Linguistics Ohio State University, 2009
Research Methods
Behavioral research of neurodevelopmental disorders
Statistical modeling of bilingual language representation
Awards/Achievements
- College of Education, Health and Human Services Pre-Tenure SEED Grant, 麻豆影院 Awarded