Associate Professor
University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, Texas, United States
Dr. Ruth Crutchfield is associate professor at the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley since 2015 and with the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) since 2008. Dr. Crutchfield graduated with her bachelor’s degree in Communication Disorders in 1995 from UTPA, her master’s degree in Communication Disorders Bilingual/Bicultural from UTPA in 1997 and with her Doctorate in Speech Language Pathology in 2010 from Nova Southeastern University. She holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech and Hearing Association since then. Her experiences range from working as a Speech Language Pathologist in the school system, working with the geriatric population in a nursing home, hospitals and outpatient facility, and working with the pediatric population in all scopes in an outpatient rehabilitative facility. Dr. Crutchfield’s research interests stem from her Hispanic heritage and bilingualism.
University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley (Employment)