Seminar – Rebecca Alper, PhD, CCC-SLP – “Where Should We Begin? Caregiver Strengths and Support Needs in Early Language Interaction”

Rebecca Alper, PhD, CCC-SLP University of Wisconsin–Madison Profile About the Speaker: Dr. Alper is an ASHA-certified, licensed, speech-language pathologist (WI, PA, and NJ) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Alper is also a Waisman Center Investigator and director of the Language Literacy, and Learning Lab. Dr. Alper completed her M.A., Ph.D., and a Graduate Certificate in biostatistics at the University of Iowa, where she was a Presidential Fellow under the co-mentorship of Drs. Karla McGregor and Richard Hurtig. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Temple Infant and Child Lab with Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek. Dr. Alper’s research focuses on understanding and improving language and academic outcomes for children who are at-risk as a result of learning environment and/or communication disorder status. This work includes clinical behavioral assessment research, as well as research on the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinician and caregiver-mediated early language and literacy interventions. Additionally, Dr. Alper is interested in research methodology and data analysis for speech-language research. [uw-reusable-content id=’27295′]