Dr. Robyn Becker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, College for Community Health at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey.
She has almost 30 years of experience as a licensed speech-language pathologist (SLP) across setting with children and adults. She holds a speech-language specialist certificate as well as an administrator's credential in the area of special education supervision. Most recently, she was a school-based SLP for 17 years with the opportunity to form deep and meaningful inter-professional relationships across disciplines. She continues to engage in clinical work and is deeply committed to bridging the gap between academic knowledge and clinical coursework.
In 2014, she chose to pursue her clinical doctorate at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where she earned her SLP.D. degree in 2017. She was motivated by the curiosity to establish a research agenda that sought to answer the many questions that were raised during her clinical work. Dr. Becker was awarded with the prestigious Chancellor’s Award from the College of Healthcare Sciences at Nova Southeastern for outstanding commitment to doctoral scholarship. Her dissertation focused on the effect of coupling articulatory gestures with phonemic awareness training on early literacy skills in preschool children and was published in 2021 (Becker & Sylvan, 2021).
She specializes in the intersection between articulatory placement and phonemic awareness, language disorders in children, the phonetic study of speech sounds, scholarship of teaching & learning, and inter-professional practice.
She teaches various courses including language development, language disorders in children, phonetic study of speech sounds, and literacy & the SLP across the lifespan.
