Past Goldstick Family Lectures

For over twenty years, some of the brightest minds in academia have shared their expertise, research, and insight during the Goldstick Family Lecture in the Study of Communication Disorders.

These are the exceptional scholars who have delivered the Goldstick Family Lecture, and recordings as available:

• 2024: Leveraging AI to Measure and Model Social Behavior. Jim Rehg, Professor, The Grainger College of Engineering, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois.
• 2023: Navigating Opportunity Barriers Experienced by Individuals Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Susan Johnston, Professor, Department of Special Education, University of Utah.
• 2022: Connecting FACES: Strengthening Agency, Advocacy, and Access among Historically Marginalized Families Supporting Autistic Children. Jamie Pearson, Associate Professor of Special Education and Educational Equity, North Carolina State University.
• 2021:Children with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities at School: Inclusion, Integration, and Improvement. Connie Kasari, Professor of Psychological Studies in Education at UCLA and Professor of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles.
• 2020: Sandy Magana, Professor, University of Texas at Austin.
• 2019: Advancing Knowledge and Innovation to Enhance Communication Abilities: The Role of the Public Research University. Ruth Watkins, President, University of Utah.
• 2018: Supporting Social and Communication Goals for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities through the Performing Arts. Kristan Wilkinson, Professor, Pennsylvania State University.
• 2017: Show Me What You Mean. Nancy Brady, Associate Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences and Disorders and an Investigator in the Life Span Studies at the University of Kansas.
• 2016: Enlisting Parents as Therapists: A Distance-Delivered, Parent-Implemented Language Intervention for Individuals with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities. Len Abbeduto, Director, MIND Institute and Tsakopoulos-Vismara Endowed Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis.
• 2015: Advancing the Social-communication and Play of Children with Developmental Disabilities: Why Assessment Matters? Brian Boyd, Professor, Division of Occupational Science, University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
• 2014: Every Child is Communicating Now: Some Things We Know as Scientists, Some Things We Know as Humans. Ann Kaiser, Susan W. Gray Professor of Education and Human Development at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University.
• 2013: Joining the Family's Conversation: Listening to Caregivers to Develop Effective Instructional Practices for Child Development. Juliann Woods, Professor, College of Communication and Information, The Florida State University
• 2012: Karen Erickson, Professor, Director, Center for Literacy & Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 2011: Blending Approaches to Meet Individual Needs of Young Children with Autism. Ilene Schwartz, Chair and Professor of Special Education, College of Education, University of Washington
• 2010: Toddlers, Parent-Implemented Augmented Language Interventions and Communication Development. MaryAnn Romski, Professor, Acting Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University
• 2009: Making Connections: Augmentative Communication for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Pat Mirenda, Professor, Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism (CIRCA), The University of British Columbia at Vancouver
• 2009: Teaching Vocabulary Introduced in Story Contests to Economically Disadvantaged Children. Howard Goldstein, Associate Dean, Professor, Department of Communication Science and Disorders, University of South Florida
• 2007: Amy Wetherby, Professor of Communication Disorders, College of Medicine, Florida State University
• 2006: Joe Reichle, Professor, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota
• 2005: Ann Kaiser, Professor, Department of Special Education, Vanderbilt University