Graduate Courses Taught:

• Advanced Articulation Disorders
• Sociolinguistics

Current Research:

• How the variable use of African American English phonological features impact perceptions of comprehensibility and dialect detectability by speech-language pathologists in the public schools.
   

• How faculty in communication disorders programs around the country feel about the infusion of multicultural/multilingual issues in their courses.
   

• How factors such as perceived literacy skills and phonological awareness influence the ability to learn phonetic transcription in college.
   

• Perceptions of augmentative alternative communication (AAC) training, knowledge and preparedness in Arkansas.

Future Research:

• A case study examining the use of phonological awareness therapy program to raise a student’s success in a phonetics class.
   
• Further examination of cross-dialectal perception by speech-language pathologists in the schools.

Email Address:

gcrobinson@ualr.edu