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Associate Provost; Professor of Communicative Disorders
Jackson State University
Newkirk-Turner is the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at Jackson State University and a professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders. Her research examines issues that are relevant to speech-language assessment of child speakers of African American English; best practices in preparing graduate students to serve culturally and linguistically diverse populations; and barriers, opportunities, and potential impacts in reducing or eliminating equity gaps of underserved student populations in higher education. She directs the Language and Literacy in Diverse Children Lab and is currently working on NSF-funded projects that examine variation and the grammar of child AAE. She is a recipient of the ASHA Certificate of Recognition for Special Contributions in Multicultural Affairs.
Financial Disclosures: Financial compensation from ASHA for this presentation; National Science Foundation EAGER: Collaborative Research: Variation and the Grammar of Child African American English; Employee at Jackson State University
Nonfinancial Disclosures: None