Nazareth Professor Honored by American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Paula Brown, professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Nazareth College, has been named a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and was honored at the 2016 ASHA Convention in Philadelphia. This fellowship is one of the highest honors ASHA bestows. The award comes in recognition of Brown’s outstanding contributions to the field of communication sciences and disorders through her teaching, clinical services, and administration at Nazareth College and at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology (NTID) where she formerly served as a department chairperson.
Brown, Ph.D, was a Fulbright scholar in Budapest, Hungary where she taught courses in deaf education and worked with various parties to implement changes mandated by government policy regarding deaf education. She has led two student service-learning trips to Ethiopia involving education of children at schools for the deaf and the provision of services for children and their families. In addition, Brown co-directed a deafness specialty program at Nazareth College, preparing speech-language pathologists to work with children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The program began in 2002 and has since been supported by three consecutive personnel preparation grants from the U.S. Department of Education.
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