Professors are life long students who learn most from those they teach. ”
Douglas A. McColl
| Title: | Associate Professor |
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| Degree: | Ph.D, 1999, Speech-Language Pathology, Ohio University MA, 1995, Speech Pathology and Audiology, California State University, Chico BA, 1993, Political Science, Minor in Psychology, California State University, Chico |
| Office: | AJH 103A (Office Hours) |
| E-mail: | dmccoll@csuchico.edu |
| Telephone: | (530) 898-4517 |
| Fax: | (530) 898-6612 |
Professional Affiliations
- American Speech-Language Hearing Association
- California Speech-Language Hearing Association
- American Speech-Language Hearing Association - Augmentative and Alternative Communication Special Interest Division
- American Speech-Language Hearing Association - Voice and Voice Disorders Special Interest Division
Courses Frequently Taught
- CMSD 362: Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech and Hearing Mechanisms
- CMSD 435: Diagnostic Methods
- CMSD 631: Disorders of Fluency
- CMSD 635: Voice and Resonance Disorders
- CMSD 645: Augmentaive and Alternative Communication
- CMSD 652: Seminar in Language Disorders
- CMSD 684: Clinical Supervision
Current Interests
Research Interest
- Intelligibility of the speech of voice-disordered people as a function of background noise.
- Comparisons/evaluation of subjective scaling techniques employed by clinicians and researchers of speech-language pathology when making intelligibility estimates.
- Issues in public school speech-langauge intervention related to caseload size and therapy efficacy, as well as job satisfaction.
- Issues surrounding the significant shortage of doctoral students in the field of speech-language pathology.
- Practice patterns of public school speech-language pathologists regarding augmentative and alternative communication.
- Service delivery in remote areas.
Clinical Interest
- Alaryngeal voice restoration
- Augmentative and alternative communication
- High School Speech-language intervention