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MS, CCC-SLP
Courtney Overton, MS, CCC-SLP is the Owner and Founder of Speech of Cake, Inc., a private practice in Alexandria, Virginia that specializes in treating speech sound disorders, dyslexia, and dysgraphia. She is also the Project Manager of a federally funded grant at the University of Maryland in which she and a team of consultants are researching the linguistic structures of African-American English in preschool age children. In 2020, Courtney co-founded a microschool to help kids learn in the middle of a pandemic. St. Clair Learning Center is an innovative educational environment for elementary-age students. Courtney's commitment to learning never ends! She is a doctoral student in literacy, culture, and language education at Indiana University with a minor in educational leadership. She attended Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts to earn a master's degree in speech-language pathology, and she obtained a bachelor's degree in speech-language pathology, minor in linguistics, and certificate in American Sign Language at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Courtney Overton is the Owner & Founder of Speech of Cake, Inc. and St. Clair Learning Center. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland. Courtney is receiving financial compensation from brIQht media, dba brIQht ideas, for this presentation.
Courtney Overton is a member of ASHA SIG #1 Language Learning and Education, and #14: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity.
This course, and all courses in The Equity Series, are being sponsored by Having Our Say, LLC and SLP Toolkit.
5 mins | Introduction |
15 mins | Origins and features of African American English (AAE) |
15 mins | How to evaluate AAE speakers |
15 mins | How to treat AAE speakers with communication disorders |
10 mins | Q&A |