Our Faculty

Judith Stickles, M.A., CCC-SLP
(207) 581-2259
judy.stickles@umit.maine.edu

Judith Stickles is the Clinical Director of our program and teaches both academic and clinical courses. Additionally she serves as a clinical educator both on campus and off campus and teaches the Diagnostic Clinic. Prior to joining the department, she worked with children and adolescents with communication disorders in public and private schools in Eastern Canada and Maine, and taught at the University of New Brunswick. Special areas of interest include language disorders in adolescents, literacy development and disorders, issues impacting school-based practice and clinical teaching, and language and literacy development in children with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum.

Education
M.A. 1982  University of Maine (Communication Disorders)
B.A.  1979  Acadia University (English)
B.Ed. 1979  Acadia University (Secondary Education)

Courses
CSD 389  Language Development
CSD 584  Language Disorders in Children: School-Age
CSD 684  Seminar in Clinical Procedures II
CSD 685  Diagnostic Process in Speech-Language Pathology
CSD 686  Clinical Practicum: Speech-Language Pathology

Association Memberships
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA); Special Interest Divisions 1 (Language Learning and Education) and 11 (Administration and Supervision)
Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Maine Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Selected Publications and Presentations
Stickles, J., Smith, S. L., Keaton, M., & Nelsen, E. (2004, November). Efficacy of a phonologically-based sound-symbol program: A pilot study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Stickles, J. with Whitmire, K. ( 2003, October). The changing roles of SLPs in today's schools. Paper presented at the fall meeting of the Maine Speech-Language- Hearing Association, Portand, ME. 

Stickles, J., Schilmoeller, G., & Schilmoeller, K. (2002). A 23-year longitudinal review of communication disorders in an individual with agenesis of the corpus callosum. International Journal of of Disability Development and Education, 41, 365-383.