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Mrs. Staltari is a Clinical Assistant Professor, and Clinical Education Coordinator, in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology. She has been a practicing speech-language pathologist for over 35 years, working with both pediatric and adult populations and has been with the university for 25 years. Her areas of specialty include communication and cognitive disorders that result from neurological impairment in the adult population. Additionally, best practices in clinical instruction and supervision for graduate student clinicians is an area of interest. Mrs. Staltari provides clinical instruction of student clinicians in individual and group sessions for the adult neurogenic population at the Â鶹ֱ²¥ Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, as well as in the Clinic Seminar courses.  She is also engaged in didactic coursework for both pre-professional and professional phase students. Specifically, Introduction to Communication Disorders and Clinical Procedures serve as a foundation for their clinical practicum experiences. Professional phase courses include Special Topics in clinical practice as well as essential information regarding in the Business Practices course to provide knowledge and skills when working with communication disorders across a variety of service delivery settings.

Education

  • M.A. CCC-SLP, Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, 1985

Research Interests or Expertise

  • Clinical Instruction and Supervision
  • Stuttering Disorders for Children and Adults
  • Aphasia Following Neurological Damage

 

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Areas of Academic Specialty: Areas of interest include communication disorders that result from neurological impairment in the adult population, as well as pediatric fluency and phonology. 'Contextual Group Communication Therapy for Persons with Aphasia: A Scaffolded Discourse Approach, Garrett, Kathryn L., Staltari, Caterina F. and Moir, Laura J. in, Group Treatment of Neurogenic Communication Disorders, The Expert Clinician's Approach, 2 nd Ed. Roberta J. Elman Professional Presentations: -Use of a Discourse Group Model for Adults Presenting with Mild Language Disorders,' Caterina F. Staltari, M.A., CCC-SLP. Paper presented at The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association National Convention, Washington D.C. November, 2000. 'An extension of Structured Language Approaches with Persons with Aphasia-, Kathryn L. Garrett, Ph.D., CCC-SLP and Caterina F. Staltari, M.A., CCC-SLP. Paper presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association National Convention, New Orleans, November 2001 -Outcomes of pediatric fluency treatment as perceived by parent and child-, Caterina F. Staltari, M.A., CCC-SLP, Felsenfeld, Susan, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Reline, Ashley, B.S., McGuire, Kristen, B.S. Paper presented at the 2007 ASHA Schools Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2007 -Remediation of Residual Sound Errors in School Aged Children-, Caterina F. Staltari, M.A., CCC-SLP. Presented at the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, August, 2009. 'Formative Assessment of Clinical Documentation-, Marra, L., Neff, A., Rentschler, G., and Staltari, C., Poster Presentation at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association National Convention, New Orleans, November 2009. Measuring the Impact of Speech Sound Disorders Using Caregiver and Patient Report Questionnaires - Rusiewicz, Staltari, Wells, & Milloy. PSHA Convention, April, 2011, ASHA Convention, Nov. 2011 Measuring the Impact of Speech Sound Disorders Using Caregiver and Patient Report Questionnaires - Rusiewicz, Staltari, Wells, & Milloy., ASHA Convention, Nov. 2011 Generalization of Word Retrieval Following Semantic Feature Treatment - Wallace, Kimelman, Staltari, & Brumbaugh, ASHA Convention, Nov. 2011 Aphasia Workshop for Healthcare Students, Cunningham, Kantner, Davin, Accepted for presentation at PSHA Convention, March, 2012
  • Rangos School of Health Sciences Deans Award for Excellence in Service to the Mission