Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Sandie Barrie Blackley M.A., CCC-SLP, Visiting Assistant Professor

Sandie Barrie-Blackley, MA/CCC teaches the Communication Sciences & Disorders (CSD) undergraduate course, CSD 295 (Fundamentals of Speech and Language Analysis) in an asynchronous, on-line course format. Ms. Barrie-Blackley has served as the coordinator of a U.S. Department of Education personnel preparation grant at UNCG. Her current research interests include language-literacy evaluation and intervention and language structure knowledge and knowledge calibration of speech-language pathologists and speech-language pathology students. Ms. Barrie-Blackley is also the owner and founder of the Language & Learning Clinic, PLLC, in Elkin, NC, a private practice specializing in disorders of reading and written language. She is the Chief Knowledge Officer of Mind InFormation, Pte Ltd, and developer of Lexercise.com, a Web-based, tele-practice tool designed to help clinicians provide the most evidence-based, effective treatment for children with reading and written language impairments. She has training and experience with The Association Method, The Orton-Gillingham Method, The Lindamood-Bell Learning Systems Individual Phoneme Sequencing Program (LiPS) and Visualizing and Verbalizing Program, The Phono-Graphix Method, and The Language! Curriculum. She has served on the Board of Directors of the NC Branch of the International Dyslexia Association and as President of the NC Speech-Hearing-Language Association (NCSHLA). She served two terms on the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, chairing the committee charged with developing and implementing North Carolina's rules and regulations for Speech-Language Pathology Assistants. She received the NCSHLA Clinical Service Award in 1998. Ms. Barrie-Blackley is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).