Lisa Wisman Weil
Assistant Professor, School of Communication
Dr. Lisa Wisman Weil is a language scientist and speech-language pathologist. She is Assistant Dean in the School of Communication and Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Her research, teaching, and clinical interests focus on child language development and language disorders.
Wisman Weil is co-director of the Language in Infants + Toddlers Lab at Emerson, or LI+TLE Lab. She is curious about how language features and forms develop in young children, including those with developmental language disorder (DLD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Wisman Weil takes a family-centered approach to her research and examines caregiver experiences with early intervention (EI), including the impact of EI on family well-being and access to EI. She utilizes a student-centered lens to examine how graduate students acquire knowledge and skills in counseling in speech-language pathology.
Wisman Weil aims to teach students to think critically about theory and research to yield best practice in the field of speech-language pathology.
Courses
- Preschool Language Disorders
- Clinical Methods IV
- Autism
- Counseling and Family Systems
- Master's Thesis
- Counseling in Speech Language Pathology
