Mar 28, 2024  
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [NOTE!!!! THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. FOR THE CURRENT CATALOG, GO TO CATALOG.NIU.EDU]

Allied Health and Communicative Disorders (AHCD, AHPT, COMD)


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The School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders offers a major in communicative disorders (B.S.) and a minor in communicative disorders. Students interested in one of the school’s academic programs should contact the college advising office as early as possible. Failure to do so could result in delayed graduation.

Majors in the School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders who are preparing for professional practice may be dismissed from a program on the basis of either academic deficiencies or nonprofessional performance. Specific criteria relating to these areas are made known to each student at the time the professional phase of a program is initiated.

Allied Health and Communicative Disorders Faculty

Sherrill R. Morris, Ph.D., University of Kansas, associate professor, chair
Hamid Bateni, Ph.D., McGill University, associate professor
Nicole Bettin, D.P.T., Northwestern University, clinical assistant professor
Danica Billingsly, Au.D., Salus University, clinical assistant professor
Mary Jo Blaschak, Ph.D., Northwestern University, associate professor
Dawn Brown, D.P.T., Alabama State University, clinical assistant professor
Milijana Buac, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, assistant professor
Mariah Cheyney, Au.D., University of Pittsburgh, clinical assistant professor
King Chung, Ph.D., Northwestern University, professor
Allison Gladfelter, Ph.D., Purdue University, assistant professor
In-Sop Kim, Ph.D., Florida State University, associate professor
Blythe Kitner, Au.D., Rush University, clinical assistant professor
Michael Kushnick, Ph.D., Florida State University, associate professor
Robert LeBeau, D. Sc., Texas Tech University, assistant professor
Jamie F. Mayer, Ph.D., Indiana University, associate professor
Deborah McGee, M.A., Northern Illinois University, clinical assistant professor
Sarah O’Connor, M.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, clinical assistant professor
Michelle O’Loughlin, M.A., Northern Illinois University, clinical assistant professor
Janet L. Olson, Ph.D., Northern Illinois University, associate professor
Emily Palmer, M.A., Northwestern University, clinical assistant professor 
Charles Pudrith, Ph.D., Au.D., University of North Carolina, at Greensboro, assistant professor
Joy Robackouski, D.P.T., Northern Illinois University, clinical assistant professor
Diane ScheckLong, Au.D., Still University, clinical assistant professor
Matthew J. Wilson, Ph.D., University of Tennessee Health Science Center, associate professor

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