Biography
Kelly Harlow, M.A., CCC-S is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Disorders Department in the College of Health Professions. She is a member of the American Speech and Hearing Association and a member of West Virginia Speech and Hearing Association. She has worked in the field of communication disorders in a variety of settings for over 20 years before coming to Marshall University. Her past experiences include acute care, long term care facilities, home health, pre-school settings and out-patient clinics. It was during her clinical work that she became interested in autism. Her interest grew and naturally evolved to a specialized expertise with Autism Spectrum Disorders. She has served on multi-disciplinary assessment teams in the tri state concentrating on the accurate diagnosis of spectrum disorders. She also runs pragmatic groups at Marshall University Speech and Hearing Clinic for children and teenagers that have social or pragmatic deficits with communication. Her duties at Marshall include teaching at the graduate and undergraduate level as well clinical instruction at the graduate level. Professor Harlow has taught classes at the undergraduate level which include speech and language disorders, phonetics, speech and language development and diagnostics. Her graduate classes include the domains of augmentative alternative communication, autism and the pre-school language disordered child. Her areas of research interest is in autism and augmentative and alternative communication.