Community Health Education
Liz is currently working full-time as a lecturer for the Liz is currently working full-time as a lecturer for the University of Massachusetts in Speech Language and Hearing Sciences Department. Through NSS, she also offers engaging lectures for community and healthcare organizations, and is able to adapt complex material to make it accessible to the target audience. Liz is particularly passionate in speaking about brain health, care partner training for dementia, and training parents and educators to support early language development. Liz believes community education and empowerment are vital to the prevention and management of speech, language and cognitive disorders.
Teaching philosophy
Liz is committed to training competent, confident, compassionate, and culturally responsive speech and language pathologists. She believes that the use of community and classroom-based experiential learning techniques support the development of critical thinking skills. Liz is also passionate about creating accessible courses; using multimedia learning materials and a variety of assignments to accurately assess students' learning. She works to support students from diverse or unique backgrounds by breaking down artificial barriers created by systemic issues in our society. The field of speech and language pathology needs diverse clinicians to serve the needs of a diverse population.
Your course has been one of the most influential and informative courses in my SLHS experience”
– Former student
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Liz is now working full time at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. If you are a student interested in observing or working with Liz clinically, please get in touch about available opportunities and she will get back to you shortly.
