Supporting Knowledge in Language and Literacy (SKILL)

Sandra Laing Gillam is a professor at Utah State University in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education. She is the current Vice President for Speech Language Pathology Practice for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of childhood language disorders, phonological development and disorders, and assessment and intervention for speech and language disorders.
Ronald B. Gillam's, Ph.D., research, which has been funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the U.S. Department of Education, primarily concerns information processing, language assessment, and language intervention with school-age children with language impairments. Dr. Gillam has been the associate editor of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (1996–1999) and the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (2001–2004; 2010– 2013). In addition to publishing more than 130 articles and book chapters, Ron has published three tests and two other books—Memory and Language Impairment in Children and Adults (Aspen, 1988) and Communication Sciences and Disorders: From Science to Clinical Practice (co-edited with Thomas Marquardt & Fredrick Martin; Singular, 2000; Jones & Bartlett, 2010, 2015). Dr. Gillam's teaching and research awards include ASHA Fellow, the Hayden Williams Fellowship at Curtin University in Western Australia, and the Robins Award for the outstanding researcher at Utah State University.