Rhea Paul, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

paulr4@sacredheart.edu

Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories
Professor, Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Program at Sacred Heart University

Bio

Rhea Paul, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is Professor and Founding Director of the Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Program at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT and an Affiliate at Haskins Laboratories. She received her B.A. from Brandeis University in 1971, her Master’s degree in Reading and Learning Disabilities from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1974 and her Ph.D. in Communication Disorders from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981. She is author of over 90 refereed journal articles, 40 book chapters and seven books. She has been Principal Investigator on research projects on language disorders and autism funded by the National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, the National Alliance for Autism Research, the Meyer Memorial Trust, and the Oregon Medical Foundation. She has been a Principal Investigator at the Yale Autism Center of Excellence. Dr. Paul has participated in a variety of expert panels and boards for the Connecticut and Oregon State Departments of Education, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Institutes of Health. She has served as Vice President of both the Oregon and Connecticut State Speech-Language-Hearing Associations, and is currently President of the Connecticut Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She received Faculty Scholar awards from Portland State University and Southern Conn. State University, in 1996 received the Editor’s Award from the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, and was awarded in the inaugural Ritvo/Slifka Award for Innovative Clinical Research by the International Society for Autism Research. She has been a Fellow of the American-Speech-Language Hearing Association since 1991.