Dr. Janet Dodd’s research focuses on narrative language-based intervention, multi-disciplinary assessment of autism spectrum disorders, therapeutic implications of theory of mind, and central auditory processing disorders in clinical and educational pediatric populations. Her current research project explores the impact of teaching perspective-taking for students on the autism spectrum with moderate to severe disabilities. Her thesis was a comparison of a phonological process analysis in three separate speech samples, and her doctoral dissertation was a comparison of the syntactic comprehension ages of children with autism and typically developing children on theory of mind tasks. 

Dr. Dodd received her B.A. in speech and hearing sciences from University of California, Santa Barbara, and her M.A. in communication disorders from California State University, Fullerton. She was awarded a Doctorate in Speech-Language Pathology from Nova Southeastern University in Florida.  Dr. Dodd brings more than 16 years of clinical experience to her new position having worked as a highly regarded speech-language pathologist in Irvine Unified School and Los Alamitos Unified School Districts, as well as the United Cerebral Palsy Center. She has extensive experience in collaboration, inclusive education, in-home intervention, and culturally diverse family programs. She has taught graduate-level courses in communication disorders as an adjunct professor at California State University, Long Beach and Chapman University. 

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