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Nola T. Radford, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Dr. Nola T. Radford, CCC-SLP has been a speech-language pathologist for 26 years. She has worked in a variety of employment settings, including public schools, private practice, and a pediatric rehabilitation clinic. She is currently a Professor of Speech-language Pathology at Jackson State University, College of Public Service, School of Health Sciences in the Department of Communicative Disorders. Her duties include teaching, research, and service.
Dr. Radford supervises graduate students in the Central Mississippi Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic, where students under the supervision of certified and licensed speech-language pathologists learn to provide clinical services to persons with speech, language, cognitive, swallowing, and hearing disorders. The Clinic provides free clinical services to persons of all ages and from diverse ethnocultural backgrounds.
During her tenure at Jackson State, Dr. Radford has maintained Specialty Recognition in Fluency Disorders from The Specialty Board on Fluency Disorders of the American Speech-language Hearing Association. She has presented at local, state, and national speech and hearing conventions in the areas of stuttering in children and adolescents, language intervention, and the language abilities of abused and neglected children. She conducts research in the areas of stuttering, language and discourse development in children, and the early detection of Alzheimer’s in minority populations. Her current community service includes consultation and workshops regarding therapy for children who stutter in public schools.
