Leonard L. (Chick) LaPointe, Ph.D.
Leonard L. (Chick) LaPointe, received his Bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and his Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the University of Colorado. He currently occupies an endowed distinguished professor chair, the Francis Eppes Professor of Communication Disorders, at Florida State University in Tallahassee. He also serves an invited term as Annual Visiting Professor in the School of Health Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He has also served as a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His research focus is in the area of neurological disorders of communication and cognition. He is the founding and current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology.

Dr. LaPointe has authored or co-authored 5 books, 35 book chapters, over 80 journal articles, and presented more than 400 papers, lectures, or invited workshops in the United States, the former Soviet Union, several countries in Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, and the South American countries of Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil. He has received the Honors of the Arizona Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Academy of Neurological Communication Disorders and Sciences, and the Clinical Career Award from the Florida Society of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists.

He enjoys salt water, music, wine and the culinary arts, reading, writing, humor, the cultivation of optimism and the absurd, and is the author of Blood Ice, a novel published by AuthorHouse.com

Books by Author:
Movement Disorders in Neurologic Disease: Effects on Communication and Swallowing