Nickola Nelson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Nickola Wolf Nelson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, is professor emerita in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and former Director of the Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at Western Michigan University. She is author of the textbook Language and Literacy Disorders: Infancy Through Adolescence, (Pearson, 2010) and former editor of the scientific journal, Topics in Language Disorders. Dr. Nelson’s research has focused on providing curriculum-based language and literacy assessment and intervention and working with families, teachers, and other professionals in collaborative service-delivery models, including a writing lab approach, in school settings. Two of her journal articles have won editors’ awards, and she is recipient of the Honors of ASHA and the Kleffner Clinical Career Award of the ASHF. Dr. Nelson is coauthor of the Student Language Scale (SLS; with coauthors, B. Howes and M. Anderson), and the Pediatric Test of Brain Injury™ (PTBITM; with coauthors G. Hotz, N. Helm-Estabrooks, & E. Plante; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2010), which is conceptually related to the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills™ (TILLS™).