Dr. K. Todd Houston is an Associate Professor in the School of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at The University of Akron where he teaches courses related to aural habilitation/Auditory-Verbal Therapy, childhood language development and disorders, phonology, phonetics, and professional practices. His areas of research include spoken language acquisition in children with hearing loss, auditory and visual perception of spoken language, parent engagement in the intervention process, the parenting role of fathers for children with hearing loss, the use of social media, and telepractice/teleintervention as a service delivery model. Dr. Houston continues to write extensively on these topics and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, editorials, and clinical white papers. As a passionate teacher and lecturer, Dr. Houston is also committed to preparing and mentoring professionals to serve children with hearing loss and their families, especially those who have chosen listening and spoken language as the desired outcomes.
Prior to joining the faculty at The University of Akron, Dr. Houston was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University and is a former Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AG Bell) in Washington, DC. Dr. Houston is also a former member of the Board of Directors of Auditory-Verbal International, Inc. (AVI), a founding partner in the Carolina Summer Institute in Auditory-Verbal Therapy housed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a founding director of the South Carolina Chapter of the AG Bell Association.
As a Speech-Language Pathologist and Certified Listening and Spoken Language Specialist  Auditory-Verbal Therapist (LSLS Cert. AVT), Dr. Houston has experience serving infants, toddlers, and children with hearing loss through family-centered early intervention as well as in residential, public school, and clinical settings. He also has held positions as a cochlear implant program director, researcher, and consultant and continues to hold adjunct faculty positions at universities in the United States and Australia. Dr. Houston travels nationally and internationally providing consultations and presenting workshops, scientific papers, and keynote addresses on a variety of topics related to childhood hearing loss.

Books By Author

• Auditory Verbal Practice, Teaching Spoken Language through Listening
• Telepractice in Speech-Language Pathology
• From Assessment to Intervention, A Guidebook for the Auditory Perception Test for the Hearing Impaired-Revised