Resume

• 2008

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Speech Language Hearing Science/ Literacy Focus

  City University of New York

  MA Educator's License Elementary (K-8)

  MA Educator's License Reading (All Levels)

  MA Offic

  MA License: Speech Language Pathologist

  MA Educator's License: Speech/Language/Hearing Disorder (All Levels)

• 1991

  Massachusetts General Hospital

  Bridgewater State University

  The Language Link

  Boston

  MA

  FT clinical faculty

  Clinical Faculty

  MGH Institute of Health Professions

  Boston

  MA.

  SLP

  Adjunct Faculty

  Clinical Supervisor for first class of master's level SLP students at the Institute of Health Professions. Treatment focus: children and adults with written language deficits from dyslexia

  language learning disorders

  stroke

  traumatic brain injury

  dyslexia

  ADHD. Research assistant for studies of dyslexia.

  SLP: MGH Speech Clinic

  Adjunct Faculty: MGH Institute of Health Professions

  Massachusetts General Hospital

  Bridgewater

  MA

  Assistant Professor

  Bridgewater State University

  Hastings on Hudson

  NY; Wellesley

  MA

  Private Practice SLP and Reading Specialist

  Founder

  The Language Link

  Spanish

  English

  IRA's 2013 Jeanne S. Chall Award

  http://www.reading.org/resources/awardsandgrants/research_chall.aspx\n\nPurpose of the Fellowship\nThe Jeanne S. Chall Research Fellowship is a $6

  000 grant established to encourage and support \ndissertation research in reading by promising scholars. The special emphasis of the fellowship is \nto support research efforts in the following areas: beginning reading; readability; reading difficulty; stages of reading development; the relation of vocabulary to reading; diagnosing and teaching adults with limited reading ability. Since this grant program has been established to honor and carry on the work to which Dr. Jeanne S. Chall has dedicated her academic life

  the excellence of the proposal will be a primary consideration in the selection process.\n\n\"Empowering Struggling Adult Readers with Morphological Instruction and Civics\"\n\nSusan Gray is a reading specialist

  speech language pathologist and Ph.D. Candidate in Speech Language Hearing Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. She earned an M.Ed. in Reading and Language at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she studied with Jeanne Chall and Carol Chomsky. After receiving an M.S. in Communication Disorders at Boston University

  she worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital as a speech pathologist and a clinical supervisor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She has taught in public schools in Massachusetts

  Connecticut

  and New York and has a private practice in Hastings on Hudson

  NY. She is now working with John Locke

  Linnea Ehri and Valerie Shafer on her dissertation project

  teaching vocabulary through Latin and Greek root word study to young adults who have dropped out of high school. By providing morphological instruction to teach academic vocabulary embedded within passages on the rights and responsibilities of citizens

  Susan Gray hopes to increase literacy skills while promoting civic engagement in GED students.

  International Reading Association

  2016 Outstanding Dissertation of the Year- Finalist

  Dissertation monograph named \"Finalist for 2016 Outstanding Dissertation of the the Year\" by International Literacy Association

  International Literacy Association

  ASHA 2013 Graduate Student Scholarship

  Graduate Student Scholarships\nFull-time master's or doctoral students in communication sciences and disorders programs demonstrating outstanding academic achievement are eligible to compete for $5

  000 scholarships. Supported in part by Psi Iota Xi National Philanthropic Organization and the Marni Reisberg Memorial Fund.

  American Speech Language Hearing Foundation

• 1990

  M.S.

  Communication Disorders

  Boston University

  With Distinction

• 1984

  M.Ed.

  Reading and Language

  Harvard University Graduate School of Education

• 1982

  Graduate Liberal Studies Summer Program

  Wesleyan University

• Research

  Speech

  Program Development

  Grant Writing

  Student Affairs

  Clinical Research

  Fundraising

  Public Speaking

  Tutoring

  Special Education

  Autism Spectrum Disorders

  Higher Education

  Cognition

  Speech Therapy

  Psychology

  Qualitative Research

  Research Design

  University Teaching

  SPSS

  Teaching

  Community Engaged Scholarship Grant

  Bridgewater State University. Using Book Kits to Build Vocabulary in Preschoolers from Low Income Families

  Microgrant: Student-Faculty Research Partnerships

  Office of Teaching and Learning

  Bridgewater State University.

  Center for Advancement of Research & Scholarship (CARS) Summer Grant: Print Referencing of Plurals during Interactive Book Reading: Potential Early Literacy Benefits for Preschoolers and Kindergartners

  Gray

  Ph.D. CCC-SLP

  Gray

  Ph.D. CCC-SLP

  MGH Institute of Health Professions