Martha S. Burns

Dr. Martha S. Burns has been a practicing speech-language pathologist in the Chicago area for more than 40 years. She serves on the faculty of Northwestern University, department of communication sciences and disorders, and has been a consultant to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago for 35 years. Dr. Burns is a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and has received honors from Northwestern University, Evanston Hospital Corporation, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation, and Saint Xavier University.

Dr. Burns has authored three books and more than 100 book chapters and articles. Doody’s Rating Service selected her book on the right hemisphere published through Aspen Press as one of the best health sciences books of 1997. In addition to that book, Dr. Burns is the author of a book on aphasia, as well as Burns Brief Inventory of Communication and Cognition, published by The Psychological Corporation.