Karen E. Pollock, Ph.D.
Karen E. Pollock, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Speech Pathology
and Audiology at the University of Alberta. She has taught graduate courses, conducted
research, and published in the area of child phonology for almost 20 years. In addition
to co-editing two books with Alan G. Kamhi and Joyce Harris on communication development/
disorders and literacy in African American children, she served as associate editor
in the area of phonology for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
from 1995 to 1997 and is currently an editorial consultant for several scholarly professional
journals. Her recent research interests include vowel errors in children with phonological
disorders, phonological variation in southern and African American English dialects, and
speech-language development in internationally adopted children.