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Building Lifelong Relationships

Intro

In the CSD Department, our faculty and staff are educators and mentors. We work closely with our undergraduate and graduate students to provide them with evidence-based teaching approaches and clinical experiences. We are passionate about the profession of speech-language pathology and share that passion with each of our students.

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Department Chair
Abby Hemmerich
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Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
Department Chair
Professor
115 Human Sciences & Services
239 Water Street
Eau Claire, WI 54701

Abby Hemmerich is a professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Prior to coming to UW-Eau Claire, she practiced clinically in acute care, rehabilitation, and outpatient speech-language pathology settings. Her main area of academic and clinical expertise is voice disorders.

Faculty and Staff
Bryan Brown
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Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
Associate Professor
Human Sciences and Services 121
239 Water Street
Eau Claire, WI 54702
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Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
Assistant Professor
Human Sciences and Services 129
239 Water Street
Eau Claire, WI 54703

Dr. Charlotte Clark joined our department in the fall of 2019. She completed her master’s degree in 2013 and her doctoral degree in 2018 in applied language and speech sciences at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. She practiced as a school-based speech-language pathologist in Chattanooga, TN, serving preschool to high school age populations. Her research interests include child language and literacy, social interaction, and qualitative research methods. She teaches classes in typical language development and child language assessment.

Shannon Collins
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Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
Clinical Professor | CSD Undergraduate Faculty Advisor | SLPA Coordinator
Human Sciences and Services Building 174
239 Water St.
Eau Claire, WI 54701
By appointment

Ms. Shannon Collins, Clinical Professor, Undergraduate CSD Faculty Advisor and Speech Language Pathology Assistant Coordinator joined our department in the fall of 2001. She completed her baccalaureate degree at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in Secondary Education-Communication Disorders and her master’s degree at Washington State University in Speech and Hearing Sciences. Before joining the department, she worked as a public-school speech-language pathologist in the states of Washington and Texas and as a classroom teacher for a program in Michigan in which all students utilized augmentative and alternative communication systems. She is the faculty advisor for both the residential and online undergraduate CSD students and coordinator of UWEC’s Speech Language Pathology Assistant Certificate program. She teaches courses in introduction to the major, clinical seminar, and an interdisciplinary course for freshmen. Areas of interest include speech and language development and intervention for school aged children. She is also the adviser for our local chapter of National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA).

Megan Figg
Alum
she/her/hers
Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
Clinical Instructor
Post-Baccalaureate Advisor
Human Sciences and Services 170
By appointment

Clinical instructor and Post-Baccalaureate Advisor

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Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
Lecturer
Health and Human Services 216
Wednesdays 11-2 by appointment
Abby Hemmerich
Alum
she/her/hers
Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
Department Chair
Professor
115 Human Sciences & Services
239 Water Street
Eau Claire, WI 54701

Abby Hemmerich is a professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Prior to coming to UW-Eau Claire, she practiced clinically in acute care, rehabilitation, and outpatient speech-language pathology settings. Her main area of academic and clinical expertise is voice disorders.

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Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
Professor and Assistant Chair
Student Engagement Coordinator
CSD Ambassadors Advisor
Human Sciences & Services 117
239 Water Street
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
By appointment
Rebecca Jarzinski
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Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
Assistant Professor
HSS 172

Becca Jarzynski, PhD, CCC-SLP is a pediatric speech-language pathologist and an Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department. Her clinical and research interests include culturally responsive assessment and intervention, early intervention, language assessment and intervention, and Autism Spectrum Disorders. She teaches in the areas of early intervention, child language disorders, cultural and linguistic diversity, and research methods.

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Communication Sciences and Disorders Department

Human Sciences and Services 112
239 Water Street
Eau Claire, WI 54703
United States