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Faculty and Staff

Full-Time Faculty
Cheri S. Carrico, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Department Chair
Ruiying Ding, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Marjorie M. Goodban, Ph. D., CCC-SLP, Graduate Program Director
Nicole Koonce, M.A., CCC-SLP
Gerard (Trace) Poll, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Clinic Staff/Educators
Vicki Jay, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Clinic Director
Laura Anderson, M.S., CCC-SLP
Kathryn (Frank) Basco, M.A., CCC-SLP
Danielle Kos, M.S., CCC-SLP
Jenny Potanos, M.A., CCC-SLP

Department Adjunct Faculty
Kathryn (Frank) Basco, M.A., CCC-SLP
Mary Crissman, B.A.
Kathy Evangelista M.S., CCC-SLP
Carol Foote, M.S., CCC-SLP
Carol McGuinn , B.A, T.C.I.C.
Jenny Potanos, M.A., CCC-SLP
Sharon Brown Sweeney, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Marie Vetter, Au.D.
Steven Wolinsky, Au.D.

Full-Time Faculty

Cheri S. Carrico, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders; Clinical Supervisor; NSSLHA Adviser; B.S., Northern Michigan University; M.A., Western Michigan University; Ph.D., Northwestern University; Certificate of Clinical Competence, Speech-Language Pathology
Dr. Carrico is a full-time professor, co-advisor to the Elmhurst College chapter of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and mentor for speech-language pathology students involved in service learning. She joined the Elmhurst College faculty during the fall of 1996 and directed the Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic from 1997–2012. Prior to coming to Elmhurst College, she worked as an assistant professor at Bowling Green State University and as a speech-language pathologist in hospital, home care and mental health settings, as well as in private practice.

She teaches courses in language development across the life span, clinical methods and diagnostic procedures in speech-language pathology, children at-risk from birth to five, pediatric motor speech and feeding disorders, and preschool language stimulation. Dr. Carrico also has supervised and instructed the speech-language pathology students who participate in educational experiences in Jamaica, as well as students conducting treatment in the Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic.

Her research interests have focused on children at-risk for speech, language and feeding difficulties, particularly those with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome and those prenatally exposed to cocaine, as well as the effects of airplane noise as it relates to children's performance on school-related tasks.

She has presented numerous papers at international, national and state conferences, including annual conventions of ASHA, the Illinois and Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing National Associations, Perinatal Obstetrics and Gynecology, the national and international Cornelia de Lange Syndrome associations, and the National Council on Undergraduate Research. In 1999 she received the NSSLHA Advisor Honors and became a member of the Clinical Advisory Board of the Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Association. In 2003, she became a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the International Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Association. She received the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2001. She also has received several clinical and research grants.

Dr. Carrico has publications in the American Journal of Medical Genetics, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Proceedings of the Greenwood Genetics Center, National Council on Undergraduate Research, and Interdisciplinary Health Care Teams.

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Ruiying Ding, Ph.D., CCC-SLP 
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Elmhurst College. B.S., M.A. & Ph.D. Northwestern University; Certificate of Clinical Competence, Speech-Language Pathology
Dr. Ding joined the Elmhurst College faculty during the fall of 2012. Prior to coming to Elmhurst College, she worked as an associate professor at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and as a speech-language pathologist in hospital, rehabilitation center, outpatient clinic, and long term care facilities.

She teaches courses in dysphagia, voice disorders, Survey of CSD in Medical Settings and neurology. Her current research interests include: swallow physiology changes in normal elderly and patient populations, and speech and language practice in multicultural and multilingual populations.

Dr. Ding is the principal investigator in four research projects. She has published research articles and book chapters in nationally and internationally renowned journals. In 2008 she was elected the Vice President of Communication in the Wisconsin State Speech, Language and Hearing Association. She is also an adjunct professor in two renowned universities in Shanghai, China.

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Marjorie M. Goodban, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Professor, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Elmhurst College.
B.A., Kansas State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; Sabbatical, Northwestern University; CCC, Speech-Language Pathology
Dr. Goodban is a full-time professor and director of the graduate program in communication sciences and disorders. After having served as director of the Clinic for 23 years, she resigned in 1997.

Dr. Goodban teaches courses in intercultural communication and fluency disorders. Her current primary research interest is communication development in children with Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS), and she has presented numerous papers and seminars in Europe, Australia and the United States on this topic. Her video tapes demonstrating therapy procedures with children with this syndrome are requested by individuals and groups from numerous countries. She serves as the speech-language advisor to the CdLS Foundation.

Dr. Goodban has presented numerous papers at various conferences and has published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics, the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, the Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, and Language Speech and Hearing in Schools. The Arlt-Goodban norms for articulation, co-developed by Dr. Goodban, are used exclusively in some states.

From 1990 to 1996, Dr. Goodban was one of the nominees for Woman of the Year in DuPage County. She is an alumna of Elmhurst College. Prior to working at Elmhurst College, she was a research associate at the University of Illinois and the director of a VA Hospital Speech Clinic.

Nicole Koonce, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Elmhurst College. B.S., University of Central Oklahoma; M.A., Oklahoma State University; Ph.D. in Special Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Certificate of Clinical Competence, Speech-Language Pathology
Dr. Koonce received her Ph.D. in special education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research is focused on narrative and expository language skills as they relate to reading comprehension in elementary and middle school-aged children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. She also conducts research on evidence-based language interventions for school-age children with language-learning disabilities. She has presented on these topics at state and national conferences including the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, and the Council for Exceptional Children.

Dr. Koonce has also co-authored a book chapter on syntactic contributions to literacy learning. Prior to working at Elmhurst College, Dr. Koonce worked as a research assistant on two federally funded research projects. From 2000 to 2009, she worked as a speech-language pathologist in early intervention, public school, private school, and outpatient clinic settings.

Gerard (Trace) Poll, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Elmhurst College. B.A., The University of Chicago; M.B.A., The University of Chicago; M.S, The Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University; Certificate of Clinical Competence, Speech-Language Pathology.
Prior to joining the faculty at Elmhurst College in 2012, Dr. Poll was a pre-doctoral fellow at The Pennsylvania State University and worked as a speech-language pathologist in medical rehabilitation and school settings, with primarily pediatric populations. Prior to entering the field of communication sciences and disorders, he held a range of management positions at financial services and consulting firms.

He teaches courses in anatomy and physiology, clinical phonetics and language disorders and speech science. Dr. Poll’s research is focused on developmental language and literacy disorders with a major focus on adolescents and young adults with developmental language disorders. His studies have focused on the effective assessment of language impairment, cognitive and linguistic factors associated with language impairment, and functional effects of language impairment. He has also studied late talking and the relations of early language abilities to language impairment in grade school.

Dr. Poll’s research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health. He has presented his research at meetings of the Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders. He has published studies, with collaborators, in the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research; Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools; the International Journal of Language and Other Communication Disorders; and the Journal of Communication Disorders.

Clinic Educators

Vicki Jay, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Director, Elmhurst College Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic
B.A., Elmhurst College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Dr. Jay has worked in a variety of settings, primarily as a pediatric speech pathologist. She has taught previously at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at several local junior colleges. She teaches language disorders in children and the practicum classes and also is a clinical educator. Dr. Jay has presented at several ASHA and ISHA conventions. Areas of interest include language delays in children 0–5 years and counseling.

Laura Anderson, M.S., CCC-SLP
Instructor, Communication Sciences & Disorders; Clinical Educator, Elmhurst College Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic
B.A., Elmhurst College; M.S., Illinois State University
Mrs. Anderson is a clinical educator at the Elmhurst College Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic. She is co-advisor to the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Mrs. Anderson also is an instructor and has enjoyed teaching a variety of courses, including anatomy and physiology, clinical methods and diagnostic procedures in speech-language pathology, and survey of CSD in educational settings. She has worked as a school-based speech-language pathologist and taught a preschool class for children with phonological disorders.

Kathryn (Frank) Basco, M.A., CCC-SLP
Clinical Instructor, Elmhurst College Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic
B.A., University of Wisconsin–Madison; M.A., Northern Illinois University
Mrs. Basco is currently in private practice serving children ages birth to three. She has worked with children and adults in both hospital and outpatient clinic settings. Mrs. Basco has taught courses in Language Development, Fluency, Aural Rehabilitation and Traumatic Brain Injury. Her areas of interest include pediatric head trauma rehabilitation, feeding disorders and developmental apraxia.

Danielle Kos, M.S., CCC-SLP
Clinical Educator, Elmhurst College Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic
B.S., Elmhurst College; M.S., Saint Xavier University
Mrs. Kos works as a speech-language pathologist at Neuqua Valley High School.

Jenny Potanos, M.A., CCC-SLP
Instructor, Communication Sciences & Disorders; Clinical Educator, Elmhurst College Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic
B.A., Elmhurst College; M.A., Northern Illinois University
Mrs. Potanos is also in private practice specializing in autism. She provides individual therapy as well as integrated play groups.

Department Staff

Kathy Evangelista, M.A. CCC-SLP
Instructor, Communication Sciences & Disorders
B.S., M.S., Illinois State University
Mrs. Evangelista is the Director of Speech and Language Services for the Little Friends Center for Autism in addition to teaching courses in writing and speech-language pathology at Elmhurst College.

Carol Foote, M.S. CCC-SLP
Instructor, Communication Sciences & Disorders
B.S., Elmhurst College; M.S., Rush University
Mrs. Foote has been a speech-language pathologist in acute care and rehabilitation hospitals with on-site student supervision since 1986. Currently she teaches courses in phonetics and anatomy and physiology at Elmhurst College.

Carol McGuinn, B.A., TC IC, IL License Master Level
Instructor, Communication Sciences & Disorders
B.A., Governor's State University
Mrs. McGuinn is the instructor for sign-language courses at Elmhurst College.

Sharon Brown Sweeny, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Instructor, Communication Sciences & Disorders
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Northewestern University
Dr. Sweeney teaches speech at Elmhurst College. Her work experiences include teaching at Rush University and treatment in private practice. Dr. Sweeney has published in Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, First Language, and Applied Psycholinguistics

Marie Vetter, Au.D.
Instructor, Communication Sciences & Disorders
B.S., MUniversity of North Dakota; Au.D., Ohio State University
Dr. Vetter teaches aural rehabilitation in the CSD department. She is employed by the University of Chicago Hospitals and Chicago Hearing Services.

Steven Wolinsky, Au.D
Instructor, Communication Sciences & Disorders
B.S., M.A., Northern Illinois University; Au.D., University of Florida–Gainesville
Dr. Wolinsky teaches the audiology courses at Elmhurst College. He also is employed at Chicago Hearing Services.

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