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Kelly Jackson received her Bachelor of Arts in Communicative Disorders and Spanish and her Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Alabama. She began her career as a speech-language pathologist working in a skilled nursing facility and has experience working in many different settings including hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and public schools. Kelly has worked with patients ranging from early childhood to geriatric with various speech, language, and swallowing disorders. She speaks Spanish and has had experience in conducting speech therapy and evaluations in Spanish in various settings and is currently completing an advanced certificate in bilingual speech-language pathology. In her current position, Kelly teaches in the undergraduate and graduate speech-language pathology programs at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, and serves as the clinical lab coordinator.

Dr. Prakup has practiced as a Speech-Language Pathologist for over thirty years.  She is currently working as Lead Speech Pathologist with St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in Cleveland, OH where she serves adults with neurogenic communication and swallowing disorders.  Dr. Prakup continues to pursue research interests which focus on the aging voice and the singing voice through St. Vincent Charity Medical Center. Dr. Prakup has also taught undergraduate and graduate courses such as voice disorders, anatomy and physiology, phonetics, speech and hearing science, research design and articulation and phonology and currently serves as the guest-lecturer on topics in Medical Speech Pathology for local universities. 

Nina Capone Singleton, PhD, CCC-SLP is an Associate Professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology, an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, and the Director of the Developmental Language and Cognition Lab, all at Seton Hall University. She has held clinical positions at the Children’s Seashore House-The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Children’s Memorial Hospital (Chicago), Bright Futures Early Intervention Clinic (Evanston, Illinois), and the Westchester Institute for Human Development (Valhalla, New York). Dr. Capone Singleton has published many papers and has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (2010-2013). She is currently Associate Editor of Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. Dr. Capone Singleton has presented at both national and international conferences. She is the co-author of the 3^rd edition of the textbook entitled Language Development:  Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications, published by Jones & Bartlett Learning.