Alan G. Kamhi, Ph.D.
Alan G. Kamhi, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communicative
Disorders at Northern Illinois University. Since the mid-1970s, he has conducted research
on many aspects of developmental speech, language, and reading disorders. He has
written several books with Hugh Catts on the connections between language and reading
disabilities as well as two books with Karen E. Pollock and Joyce Harris on communication
development and disorders in African American speakers. His current research focuses
on how to use research and reason to make clinical decisions in the treatment of children
with speech, language, and literacy problems. He began a 3-year term as the Language
Editor for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research in January 2004 and
served as Editor of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools from 1986 to 1992.