Sara C. Steele, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Associate Professor
Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences

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Education

• Ph.D., Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• M.A., Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• B.S., Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests

• Developmental language disorders in the school-age population
• Language-based literacy disabilities
• Vocabulary acquisition in school-age children
• Evidence-based language assessment and intervention strategies
• Effects of poverty on language acquisition