Chair, Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
Associate Professor
M.A., Cleveland State University
B.S., Bowling Green State University
Laura Hvizd, M.A., CCC-SLP received her Bachelor of Science in communication disorders from Bowling Green State University in 2000 and her Master of Arts from Cleveland State University in 2002. Prior to becoming a faculty member at Baldwin Wallace University, she worked as a speech-language pathologist in an inpatient pediatric rehabilitation hospital, a public school and private practice. Her teaching includes undergraduate courses such as Phonetics and Phonology, Clinical Ethics and Management, and Capstone. Her teaching at the graduate level includes courses such as Integrations and Special Populations. Her primary focus is in clinical education. She supervises speech therapy intervention in both group and individual sessions in the campus clinic and community partnerships. She is the undergraduate clinic coordinator and the faculty advisor of the campus National Student Speech Language Hearing Association. Her clinical interests include childhood apraxia of speech, early intervention and pediatric feeding and swallowing.