Beth Frick Semmler

Bethany Frick Semmler is an assistant professor at Adelphi University. She previously served as the AAC Research and Outreach Coordinator with the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (RERC on AAC) at Penn State. She graduated from The Ohio State University with her PhD in Speech and Hearing Science. She received her B.S. in Spanish and Communication Sciences and Disorders from Missouri State University and an M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology from The Ohio State University. During the Masters program, Bethany was part of the Leadership in Education and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program. Her research is focused on early language learning on augmentative and alternative communication and features on speech generating devices.

ASHA Financial Disclosures:
This research was funded by a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant 90REGE0014) to the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (The RERC on AAC). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This author is a full time, salaried employee of Adelphi University.

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