Meet the experts

Rhonda Mattingly Williams EdD, CCC-SLP, is a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology, H/N Surgery, and Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisville. She teaches courses in early language evaluation and intervention, pediatric feeding and swallowing, cognitive-communicative disorders, and professional issues. Dr. Williams has been practicing for over 33 years and currently provides clinical services to neonates, adolescents, and adults with a variety of disorders including aphasia, cognitive impairment, voice dysfunction, slow feeding of the newborn, and dysphagia within the University of Louisville Healthcare System. She is active in research, publishes in scholarly journals, maintains membership in several professional organizations, and provides interdisciplinary continuing education to professionals across the globe. 

Dr. H. Gustav Mueller holds faculty positions with Vanderbilt University, the University of Northern Colorado and Rush University. He is a Contributing Editor for AudiologyOnline, where he has the monthly column “20Q With Gus.” Dr. Mueller is a Founder of the American Academy of Audiology and a Fellow of the American Speech and Hearing Association.  He has co-authored over ten books on hearing aids and hearing aid fitting, including the recent Hearing Aids for Speech-Language Pathologists.  Gus is the co-founder of the popular website www.earTunes.com, and resides on a tropic North Dakota island, just outside the city of Bismarck. (http://www.gusmueller.net/fox-island-audiology-north-dakota-nd.htm).    

Stacey Perez is a bilingual ASHA-certified speech-language pathologist. She has experience in a wide range of settings including early intervention, public and specialized schools, and pediatric and adult outpatient facilities. During her doctoral studies at Kean University, she researched SLPs’ knowledge of the cultural vocal characteristics of languages when working with bilingual transgender individuals and identified the continuing educational needs of SLPs when servicing them. As a primary area of interest since grad school, she hopes to increase SLPs’ awareness and cultural competence, by continuing to speak and write about these issues.