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Faculty Profile

Cynthia Johnson

Cynthia Johnson

Associate Professor

Department of Speech and Hearing Science

Ph.D. Communication Disorders

University of Minnesota

cjj@illinois.edu

Curriculum Vitae:
JohnsonCJ_CV_May_2017.pdf

Professor Johnson teaches coursework in the area of normal language acquisition and language disorders, particularly in school-aged children, and phonological development and disorders in young children. Her research interests include:

  • Syntactic, narrative, and phonological development in children, both with and without speech or language disorders
  • The examination of the relationship between language competency and early writing skills