Dr. Linda Carpenter

Professor
HSS 115
UW-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
(715) 836-4895
carpenlj@uwec.edu

Dr. Linda Carpenter rejoined our faculty in 1988 following a decade in California. She earned her baccalaureate degree in speech pathology and audiology from the George Washington University in Washington, DC and her master's degree in speech pathology from the University of Michigan. She earned her doctorate in special education from the joint program at UCLA and California State University - Los Angeles.

Dr. Carpenter's major interest areas are assessment and treatment of language and phonological disorders of children, multicultural aspects of communication development and disorders, interdisciplinary education and service delivery, and treatment efficacy. She teaches the undergraduate course in phonological disorders and the graduate seminars in assessment, phonology, and discourse. She supervises undergraduate and graduate students who work with phonologically and language impaired preschoolers in the Center for Communication Disorders. She also supervises graduate students in assessment of children and adults through the Human Development Center. Her book, CaseFiles: Interactive studies in language assessment, was published by Thinking Publications in 1996 and is currently under revision. Along with five undergraduate students, Dr. Carpenter published the Contextual Test of Articulation through Thinking Publications in 2000.

In addition to teaching and scholarly activities, Dr. Carpenter is active in the Wisconsin Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology Association, serving as the Vice President for Communications from 2000-2002.