Guest Presenter
Dr. Glen Tellis will be present in our class on September 10, 2016, to discuss with us the importance and the process of effective networking. As a hiring manager himself, he will also help us identify the expectations of those who conduct job interviews. Dr. Tellis is a Board-Certified Fluency Specialist. He completed his doctorate at The Pennsylvania State University and is Full Professor and Chair of the Speech-Language Pathology Department at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. His research interests include multicultural issues, research designs, treatment efficacy research, advanced digital technology, fluency disorders and clinical outcomes.
Dr. Tellis frequently presents papers at national and international conferences and has published articles that pertain to culturally and linguistically diverse populations as well as articles that pertain to stuttering and other fluency disorders. He has received externally funded grants for his research and has conducted numerous workshops in multicultural issues in communication disorders as well as assessment and treatment of stuttering. He was past President of the Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing Association and has served as editorial consultant and reviewer for the Journal of Speech-Language and Hearing Research, Journal of Communication Disorders, Journal of Fluency Disorders, and Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders. He has served as an advisory board member of the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Stuttering Center of Western Pennsylvania, as a committee member of the National Stuttering Association’s Insurance Advocacy Board, and as a committee member of the American Board of Fluency and Fluency Disorders. He also serves as an expert witness for the Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs for Pennsylvania’s Department of State. He has served as a Steering Committee Member and Schools Task Force liaison for ASHA’s Special Interest Group 4 (Fluency Disorders), was co-Chair of the Division 4 Leadership Conference, was Fluency Topic Chair of ASHA’s 2010 Convention, and Chair of the Inaugural Stuttering Attitudes Research Conference in Morgantown, West Virginia. In 2014, he received the Honors of the Pennsylvania Speech-Language Hearing Association.