Dr. SallyAnn Giess’ research focuses on child language, and child-language disorders, differential diagnosis of reading disabilities, effective interventions for reading disabilities in the school-age population, and speech and language service delivery in the schools.  Her doctoral dissertation explored the effects of a multi-sensory phonics approach to intervention for high school students with reading disabilities.  

Her primary publications on these and related topics have appeared in the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, the Seton Hall Law Review, and the 2004 text by Catts and Kamhi titled Connections Between Language and Reading Disabilities.

Dr. Giess received her B.A. and M.A. in speech language pathology from State University of New York at Buffalo. She earned a J.D. and law degree from the University of Dayton; and a Ph.D. in speech language pathology from the University of Florida. She has extensive experience as a speech- language pathologist at the prestigious Buffalo Hearing and Speech Center, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public School System in North Carolina, and the Orange Unified School District in Southern California. She has been a professor and clinical faculty member at Seton Hall University, New Jersey, the University of Florida and the University of Central Florida. She is currently the editor of Perspectives on School-Based Issues, the newsletter for ASHA Special Interest Division 16, and serves on the editorial review board for Communication Disorders Quarterly. 

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