Biography
Jamie Maxwell, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Disorders. She received both her M.S. degree in Speech-Language Pathology and her Ph.D. in Applied Language and Speech Sciences at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Before joining the department, she worked as a clinician for several years, providing assessment and treatment services for children and their families in early intervention and private pediatric practice settings. At Marshall, Dr. Maxwell teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the topics of professional issues, research in communication disorders, and fluency, as well as providing clinical supervision to graduate clinicians. Her research interests include language and literacy, socialization, learning theory and pedagogy, fluency, and qualitative research methodologies. Her academic work has been accepted at several state and national conferences (e.g., ASHA, LRA), and her research has been published in peer-reviewed venues such as the Journal of Communication Disorders. She has contributed book chapters and several encyclopedia entries on the topics of literacy and autism spectrum disorder. In her spare time, Dr. Maxwell enjoys reading, running, and chasing her three beautiful young children around with her husband!