Brenda Seal
PhD., CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow
Brenda Seal
PhD., CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow
Brenda Seal, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita in Communication Sciences and Disorders (JMU 1981-2009); retired professor and Director of Speech-Language Pathology at Gallaudet University (2009-2019); speech-language pathologist at the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind (1973-1981); and retired (RID) nationally certified interpreter sign language and oral language interpreter (1975-2015). Brenda (2019à) volunteers at JMU as a clinical educator and as a research assistant in a project dedicated to infant language acquisition. She also consults (2022-2024) for the Virginia Department of Education in a 3-year project dedicated to improving language acquisition for deaf and hard of hearing 0-to-5-year-olds. She is active in her state organization and a state-wide foundation that raises funds and supports speech-language-hearing graduate student scholarships.
Brenda holds several awards as both a Speech-and-Hearing Association of Virginia Fellow and an American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Fellow. She is active as a presenter and author on research topics of interest, including working as an expert witness in civil, criminal, and due process cases. Brenda has received national and state training and research grants and has authored/co-authored multiple papers and three textbooks. She has a newly published research-based book (2023), Single at Seventy: Thinking about Future Choices, with Barnes & Noble and Amazon-Kindell Press. It addresses life choices as we approach death. Unlimited
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