Chagit Clark Edery

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Assistant Professor

Phone: 828-227-3376
Email: cedery@wcu.edu
Office Address: 190 HHS

Education:

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
M.S., Brooklyn College, City University of New York
B.S., Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Biography:

The majority of my career has focused on stuttering, a disorder I continually seek to better understand through ongoing collaborations with researchers in the field and by working with the experts themselves—people who stutter. My current research interests relate to how multiple variables might contribute to the development and persistence/recovery of childhood stuttering (list of publications and presentations ). I am a co-investigator on The Early Childhood Onset Stuttering (ECHOS) Research Project with colleagues at Vanderbilt University and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. The ECHOS involves an extensive 10-year repository of diverse clinical data, which will hopefully provide insight into possible diagnostic predictors of chronicity as well as effective treatments for early childhood stuttering. In addition to my clinical work and research, I teach the following undergraduate- and graduate-level courses at WCU: Introduction to Communication Sciences & Disorders; Fluency & Voice Disorders; and Fluency Disorders. Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my husband and two daughters. You will find me traveling when time allows, cooking or tasting new food often, and reading anything Sci-Fi or fantasy (The Lord of the Rings being one of my favorites).