Ashley Alexander
Interim Chairperson, Assistant Professor in Residence
Off Campus
aaalexander@bradley.edu
Master of Science (2000) in Speech-Language Pathology, Mississippi University for Women
Bachelor of Science (1998), Mississippi University for Women
Biography
Teaching
Ashley has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. At the undergraduate level, she most frequently taught the Basic Diagnostic Procedures course which instructed students on best practices in assessing individuals for potential communication problems. In addition, this course also focused heavily on interpreting and analyzing formal and informal assessment data to assist in clinical decision-making.
At the graduate level, she has taught the following courses: 1. Articulatory and Phonological Disorders - This course looks at theoretical perspectives on articulation and phonological disorders, normal phonological development, assessment and appraisal, diagnosing, effects of dialects and English as a second language, treatment of articulation and phonological disorders, and speech sound disorders that occur in special populations; 2. Language and Literacy Disorders in the School-Age Population - This course looks closely at language and reading convergences and divergences, how reading develops and the potential causes of reading disabilities, long term effects of language deficits on school-age children and assessment and instruction in foundational literacy skills, comprehension skills, spelling skills, and written language skills; and 3. Fluency Disorders - This course looks at the nature of stuttering and other fluency disorders, theoretical perspectives, research on potential causes of fluency disorders, typical disfluency and the development of stuttering, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of all levels of fluency disorders, and the characteristics, assessment and treatment procedures associated with related disordersof fluency (cluttering, neurogenic stuttering, and psychogenic stuttering).
Scholarship
Her expertise and emphasis is not in the area of research but clinical practice. Ashley's focus is on teaching undergraduate and graduate students to be clinicians so that they can go back into their home communities and provide the services that are lacking in many areas of the state and the country.
Service
Licensures and Certifications
Ashley holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She holds current licensure with the Mississippi Department of Education as a speech-language pathologist and with the Mississippi Department of Health as a speech-language pathologist. She is a Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT LOUD) certified clinician and a SPEAK OUT! & LOUD Crowd (through the Parkinson Voice Project) certified clinician.