Faculty & Staff

Our faculty are active researchers and presenters at state, national and international conferences. They have numerous publications and serve as editors and on editorial boards of academic journals.  Members of our faculty have been honored as Distinguished Faculty, Endowed Professors, Outstanding Advisors and Research Mentors.  

Our students consistently rank our professors and advisors at levels above both the University and College averages. It is clear that we are eager to share what we know and what we are constantly learning with our students and with the world outside the University.

Academic Faculty

	Ryan L. Nelson, PhD, CCC-SLP Department Head and Associate Professor, Hawthorne-BORSF Endowed Professor I Burke-Hawthorne Hall, Room 236 Current CV Phone: 337-482-6726 Email: rnelson@louisiana.edu Research Interests: Childhood Language Disorders; Literacy Construction and Usage; Qualitative Research Methodologies
	Laura E. Arrington, PhD, CCC-SLP Visiting Assistant Professor Burke-Hawthorne Hall Current CV Phone: Email: laura.roach1@louisiana.edu Research Interests: Research Interests: Strengths-Based Practice; Literacy; Mild Traumatic Brain Injury             Elena Babatsouli, PhD Assistant Professor Burke-Hawthorne, Room 246 Current CV Phone: 337-482-6727 Email: elena.babatsouli@louisiana.edu Research Interests: Cross-linguistic child language acquisition and assessment in monolingualism and bilingualism; Speech sound disorders in children and adults; Louisiana minority languages; Second language acquisition; Phonetics/phonology, Morphology and syntax; Clinical linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Measures and quantitative methods
	Michael P. Cannito, PhD, CCC-SLP Professor, Doris B. Hawthorne- BORSF Endowed Professor II Burke-Hawthorne Hall, Room 207 Current CV Phone 337-482-1077 Email: mcannito@louisiana.edu Research Interests: Motor Speech Disorders; Cognitive & Language Disorders in Adults; Neurogenic Voice Disorders; Acoustic Analysis of Speech
	Holly L. Damico, PhD, CCC-SLP Associate Professor, Hawthorne-BORSF Endowed Professor III Burke-Hawthorne Hall, Room 222 Current CV Phone 337-482-5240 Email: hollydamico@louisiana.edu Research Interests: Language, Literacy, Qualitative Research, Social Engagement, Learning Theory and Application
	John W. Oller, Jr., PhD Professor Burke-Hawthorne Hall, Room 219 Current CV Phone: 337-482-6722 Email: joller@louisiana.edu Research Interests: Etiology of Disorders, Human Anatomy and Physiology, and Biosemiotics
	Judith D. Oxley, PhD, CCC-SLP Associate Professor Burke-Hawthorne, Room 223 Current CV Phone: 337-482-1188 Email: judith.oxley@louisiana.edu Research Interests: Language Development and AAC; AAC in Asia; Acoustic Measures of Speech
	Patrick J. Rydell, Ed.D, CCC-SLP Visiting Assistant Professor Burke-Hawthorne Hall, Room 232 Current CV Phone: 720-289-0145 Email: patrick.rydell@louisiana.edu
	Anthony P. Salvatore, PhD, CCC-SLP Professor, Doris Hawthorne & Harmon Roy-BORSF Endowed Professor Burke-Hawthorne Hall, Room 208 ​Current CV Phone: 337-482-6489 Email: asalvatore@louisiana.edu Research Interests: Aphasia, Concussion Management, Single Subject Design, Concept Learning
	Henry Trahan, AUD Adjunct Instructor Current CV Burke-Hawthorne Hall, Room 225B Email: henry.trahan@louisiana.edu

Clinical Faculty

	Christine Weill, PhD, CCC-SLP Director, Speech, Language, and Hearing Center Burke-Hawthorne Hall, Room 201-C Current CV Phone 337-482-1182 Email: weill@louisiana.edu        Clinical Specialty: Autism Spectrum Disorders; Language and Literacy Development; Social Interaction
	Kathleen Johnson Abendroth, PhD, CCC-SLP Visiting Clinical Supervisor Burke-Hawthorne, Room 224 Current CV Phone: 337-482-6733 Email: kathleen.abendroth@louisiana.edu Clinical Specialty: Autism Spectrum Disorder; Early Language Development; Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC); Literacy
	Mona Breaux, MS, CCC-SLP Clinical Supervisor Burke-Hawthorne, Room 220 Phone  Email: ramona.breaux@louisiana.edu Clinical Specialty: Speech and Language Diagnostics
	Ashley Kidd, MS, CCC-SLP Visiting Clinical Supervisor Burke-Hawthorne, Room 209 Email: ashley.kidd@louisiana.edu Clinical Specialty: Dysphagia, Aphasia, Dysarthria, Stroke, and MBSS/dysphagia diagnostic
	Katherine Mcquitty Hays, MS, CCC-SLP Visiting Clinical Supervisor Burke-Hawthorne, Room 221 Phone:  Email: katherine.hays@louisiana.edu Clinical Specialty: Early Language Development, Articulation and Phonology, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Speech and Language Diagnostics
	Anne Williams, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-F Clinical Supervisor Burke-Hawthorne, Room 218 Current CV Phone 337-482-6870 Email: awilliams@louisiana.edu Clinical Specialty: Stuttering, Articulation & Phonology, Language Development

Adjunct Clinical Staff

Administrative Staff

	Roxanna Guillory Harris Administrative Assistant III, Department Office Burke-Hawthorne Hall, Room 236 Phone 337-482-6721 Email: rharris@louisiana.edu
	Stacie Thomas Administrative Assistant III, Speech Language and Hearing Center Burke-Hawthorne Hall, Room 201D Phone 337-482-6490 Email: stacie@louisiana.edu