Catherine H. Balthazar, Ph.D.

Catherine H. Balthazar, Ph.D.

Catherine H. Balthazar, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Disorders, Governors State University, 1 University Parkway, University Park, Illinois 60484

Catherine H. Balthazar has been a speech-language pathologist and professor for more than 20 years, teaching courses in child language development and disorders. Her ongoing clinical and research efforts are aimed at improving treatment outcomes for older school-age children and adolescents with specific language impairment. To that end, Dr. Balthazar has spent the past 10 years investigating how treating complex sentence structure affects oral and written language performance.