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Eva Nwokah, Ph.D., Associate Professor

Dr. Nwokah is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Her work focuses on pediatric communication and communication disorders. She received her undergraduate degree from Leeds Metropolitan University, England in speech therapy. Her master’s degree is in human communication & disorders from Guys Hospital Medical School, London University, England and her PhD. is in developmental psycholinguistics from the University of Cambridge, England. She took graduate courses at Purdue University, Indiana and completed a clinical fellowship year in Dallas, Texas to obtain her American Speech, Language and Hearing Association Certificate of Clinical Competence. She has extensive clinical experience in England, Canada and US and teaching experience in England, Nigeria and US.
Dr. Nwokah’s primary research interests are in communicative parent-child and child-child interaction in typical and atypical children especially emotion, language and play.
She studies the co-occurrence of different components of interaction over time such as vocal affect and language to examine the types of change and levels of stability in the complex merging of different behaviors within a dyadic relationship. She has conducted research on co-occurring vocal emotion and spoken language and on linguistic humor. Her secondary research interests are in the area of service delivery models in early intervention. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, Language and Speech, Journal of First Language, and Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Research Interests

• Infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities: assessment and intervention
• Typical and atypical social and communicative behavior in young children
• Emotional communication (maternal speech, laughter and humor)
• Material culture of play (materials in early intervention & adult-child & child-child play)