Our Faculty

Susan K. Riley, M.S., CCC-SLP
(207) 581-2014
susan_riley@umit.maine.edu

Susan K. Riley is a clinical faculty member and is in partial retirement in a half-time position as of fall 2007. Ms. Riley does both academic and clinical teaching. She is directly involved with family-centered practice as a service delivery model, presents workshops and poster sessions on a family-centered approach, and works to integrate this philosophy into the speech-language services offered at the Conley Center. Ms. Riley completed a sabbatical at Northern Illinois University, working with James R. and Mary A. Andrews, developers of the Family-Based Treatment approach. Ms. Riley coordinates an ongoing Family-Based Treatment Specialty Clinic at Conley.

Education
M.S. 1965  University of Wisconsin (Speech)
B.S.  1964  Northwestern University (Speech)

Courses
CSD 686  Clinical Practicum: Speech-Language Pathology
CSD 586  Current Issues in Clinical Practice: Family-Centered Practice in Communication Disorders
CSD 491  Senior Capstone

Association Memberships
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Maine Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Publications and Presentations
Riley, S. K. (2005, October). Teaching and integrating counseling skills into clinical education for CSD graduate students. North East Council of Clinical Directors in Communication Sciences and Disorders, Spring Meeting, Boston, MA.

Riley, S. K. (2005, April). Developing communication skills for working with children with disabilities and their families. Workshop presentation at Conference on Children with Special Needs and the Child Welfare System, Bangor, ME.

Riley, S. (1998). Supervision issues in family-centered practice. SUPERvision, 22(2), 6.

Burgess, S., Haley, J., & Riley, S. K. (1998, November). Using a systemic approach to service delivery in a mental health setting. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, San Antonio, TX.

Riley, S. K. (1998, May). Application of a family-based treatment approach to medical and home health settings. Workshop presentation at Community Health Services, Portland, ME. 

Riley, S. K., Camp. P., & Orr, L. (1995, November). Family-centered practice: Preservice training for communication disorders graduate students. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Orlando, FL.