This book was written for graduate students in speech-language pathology. The use of open educational resources (OER) contributes to equity in higher education, as textbooks can be cost-prohibitive for some students to purchase. This book will always be freely available. Practicing clinicians may find this book useful as a review.

Language Disorders in School-Age Children and Adolescents by Courtney Karasinski, PhD, CCC-SLP is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://press.rebus.community/language-disorders-in-school-age-children-and-adolescents/.

About the author

Courtney Karasinski, PhD, CCC-SLP earned her bachelor’s degree from Illinois State University in 1998, with a major in speech pathology & audiology, teacher emphasis, and a minor in psychology. She was employed at the University Center for Learning Assistance as a supplemental instruction leader, tutor, and study skills workshop facilitator, which sparked her love of teaching. During the summers, she worked as a disabilities services and health services coordinator at Del Valle Migrant Head Start, which provided preschool services to the children of migrant workers, in Oswego, IL. This is where her passion for social justice was ignited. She earned her master’s degree in speech-language pathology from Western Michigan University in 2000. From 2000-2006, she practiced speech-language pathology at two hospital systems in Michigan, one rural school district in Michigan, and one urban school district in the state of New York, where she also served students at Orthodox Jewish yeshivas. Beginning in 2006, while pursuing her doctoral degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Karasinski evaluated the speech and language of toddlers on the autism spectrum as a project assistant in Dr. Susan Ellis Weismer’s research lab. She also taught as an adjunct professor at Marquette University and at Cardinal Stritch University. Dr. Karasinski earned her PhD in 2011 and began her position as an assistant professor at Grand Valley State University. She became the director of the undergraduate program in communication sciences and disorders in 2013, the director of the graduate program in speech-language pathology in 2015, and the interim chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in 2023. She earned tenure and promotion to associate professor in 2017. Her research interests center on the interplay between language and other cognitive and academic processes in monolingual and multilingual children and adolescents with and without language disorders, language ability in autistic children and adolescents, and graduate student education, especially interprofessional education.

Dr. Karasinski enjoys spending time with her husband Scott; their four children: Cassie, Chet, Cora, and Celia,  their boxer Cotton, and their cat Cat Fuzzy Cat.