Catherine (cate) Crowley PhD, JD, CCC-SLP

Dr. Crowley's work focuses on enhancing the quality of services that our children and adolescents receive particularly those bilingual and minority students and students from lower socio-economic status. First and foremost this requires that professionals who work with these students have the highest quality knowledge and skills. Quality professionals alone cannot make the needed changes. What is also needed is that the law and public policies must be in place so that quality professionals to do work that may be inconsistent with the current clinical practice. The nexus of special education, sociolinguistics, bilingualism and bidialectalism, is where Dr. Crowley's scholarly interest lies.