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Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
University of West Georgia
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
Lama K. Farran, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of West Georgia and a certified speech-language pathologist by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She earned her Ph.D. in early childhood education with a concentration in neuroscience from Georgia State University. Dr. Farran’s teaching and research center on language as a foundation for reading in individuals from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds with and without neurological disorders. Her scholarly work has been published in interdisciplinary journals such as Reading and Writing, PLoS One, International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, Reading Psychology, and Frontiers in Psychology. She has served as a reviewer for multiple journals including Reading Research Quarterly, Reading and Writing, Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Early Intervention, and Journal of Child Language. In addition to her academic appointment, Dr. Farran is involved in several state initiatives that focus on prevention, early detection, and intervention in the areas of language and reading disorders, and has served on the Georgia Dyslexia Task Force and Talk With Me Baby. Currently, she is principal investigator and consultant on research projects including Language as a Missing Link in Court-Involved Youth, Shared Reading in the Neonatal Care Unit (NICU), the University System of Georgia (USG) Reading Study, and Implementing Talk With Me Baby with Natural Helpers: Teaching, Speech-Language Pathology and Nursing Professions’ Early Language Knowledge.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Friday, November 11, 2022
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
