Assistant Professor
Christine Brennan, PhD CCC-SLP
University of Colorado, Boulder
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
2501 Kittredge Loop Drive
Boulder, CO 80305-0409
E-mail: christine.brennan@colorado.edu
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a BA in Communication Disorders in 1996. I graduate from Northwestern University with an MA in Speech-Language Pathology in 1999. After working a clinical speech-language pathologist in public special education and private practice, I returned to Northwestern University where I completed my PhD in August, 2014.
During my doctoral program, I conducted research in the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Northwestern with an overarching goal to better understand how the auditory cortex encodes phonemes and how it synthesizes phonemes into words. The central component of this line of research is to elucidate how these processes are affected by experience.
In 2014, I was a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. I left Northwestern in 2015 to take my current position as an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU). Currently, I run the ANCAR Lab (Applied Neuroscience for Communication And Reading) at CU and conduct research focused on reading acquisition and impairment and clinical profiles of children and adults with complex disabilities or unusual clinical profiles (including autoimmune encephalitis, Smith-Magenis Syndrome, Sanfilippo Syndrome or MPS IIIA).
Research Interests: Connecting phonological processing to literacy, development of literacy skills in a new language, impairment and intervention outcomes for children and adults with unique clinical profiles, language disorders in children, developmental disabilities, and AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication).
Clinical Skills: assessments, intervention, presentations for therapists and educators, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, aphasia, dyslexia, Smith-Magenis Syndrome, AAC
Current Teaching Assignments: Language disorders and learning disabilities in school-age children (graduate level course), Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of communication (graduate level course), Science of Human Communication (undergraduate course), Communication Neuroscience (undergraduate course)
Other Teaching Interests: developmental cognitive neuroscience, neurophysiology of learning disabilities, developmental disorders, autism spectrum disorder, diagnostics and intervention, development and disorders of reading, development and disorders of language, neurologic disorders
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