Colleen F. Visconti

Dr. Colleen F. Visconti, CCC-SLP, is a professor in the department of communication sciences and disorders, and program director of the speech-language pathology program. Visconti teaches a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses including Foundations in Evidence-Based Practice, Articulation and Phonology Disorders, Capstone in Speech-Language Pathology, Capstone in Communication Sciences and Disorders, and SLP 2B in Zambia.

Visconti conducts research in the area of the scholarship of teaching and learning – evidence-based education. Specifically, her research focuses on peer mentoring and peer review, interprofessional education, community engagement in Zambia, clinical decision making, and problem-based learning. Visconti has presented at state, regional and national conferences, and her work has appeared in Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders, Perspectives on Issues in Higher Education, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association - Access Academics and Research, The ASHA Leader, among others.

She is the co-author of three books, "Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in CSD: Past, Present, and Future" (on open access book that is coming out soon), "Case Studies in Evidence-Based Education: A Resource for Teaching in Clinical Professions" (2021) and "Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology: Evidence-Based Education." She is the editor and co-founder of the open access journal Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Visconti and her colleagues were recently honored with the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (2023). This award was presented to the founding Board of Directors Teaching and Learning in Communication sciences and Disorders journal in recognition of enriching education in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Visconti is also an active leader in both the state and national associations. She has served the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association (OSLHA) as president, vice president, vice president of continuing education, director of marketing and public relations, university and student affairs representative, and the honors committee chair. She also serves the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) as a site visitor for the Council of Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology.

Previously, she served ASHA as a convention committee member for the academic and clinical education models topic area, convention topic chair for the scholarship of teaching and learning track, associate coordinator and steering committee member of the special interest division – issues in higher education, and legislative councilor representing speech-language pathologist for the State of Ohio. In March 2021, she received Honors of the Association from the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association (OSLHA) and was nominated by OSLHA for the ASHFoundation Frank R. Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award. In March 2016, she received the Fellow of the Association Award from the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association. In November 2016, the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) awarded Visconti an Editor's Award for an article she co-authored, "Diagnostic Reasoning by Experienced Speech Language Pathologists and Student Clinicians."

Dissertation

"Event Knowledge in Language Impaired Children" 
Advisor: Kathy Chapman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP.