Pamela A. Smith

Pamela A. Smith has been a speech-language pathologist for 35 years with experience in acute care, acute rehab, skilled nursing, and outpatient settings. Dr. Smith completed her undergraduate education at Kutztown University (Pennsylvania) with a degree in special education – speech/language pathology, her master’s degree at Ohio University (hearing and speech sciences), and her doctoral degree at Temple University (communication sciences). She has worked in higher education for over 20 years and developed a two-course sequence in dysphagia that provided extensive study of typical swallowing across the life span prior to the study of assessment and management of disorders. Her research background is diverse and includes the areas of dysphagia, autism in aging, psycholinguistics, aphasiology, and professional issues in higher education. Recently retired, she received the Outstanding Teaching Award at Bloomsburg University in 2010. In addition to being an ASHA fellow, she was named a fellow of the National Academies of Practice (speech-language pathology academy). She is a former coordinating committee chairperson in ASHA’s Special Interest Group program and a former state association president (Pennsylvania). Dr. Smith currently provides graduate and undergraduate adjunct instruction at university programs in several states.