Stephen Camarata, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Stephen M. Camarata, Ph.D. is a professor of hearing and speech sciences at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and an investigator at the John F. Kennedy Center on Development and Disabilities. His expertise includes speech and language intervention in children with disabilities, including autism, Down syndrome, hearing loss, and developmental language disorders (DLD), and he has published more than 100 articles on these topics. He is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and Editor for Language of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Dr. Camarata’s research has been funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Institute of Educational Sciences, the U.S. Department of Education, and/or private foundations since 1986, and he is the past chair of the NIH study sections on Child Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities (CPDD) and Communication Disorders Research (CDRC).