Ginger G. Before initiating her doctoral program in communication sciences and disorders, Dr. Collins worked as a speech-language pathologist in a variety of settings, including hospitals, schools, rehabilitation centers, Head Start centers, home health, and early intervention programs.
Her practical experiences have significantly influenced her desire to further clinical translational research. Collins has three primary lines of research. The second involves effective interventions with morphological knowledge at the core to improve spelling, vocabulary knowledge, and reading comprehension with an emphasis on service delivery models. The third is in postsendary transition planning for students with language and literacy impairments and students who stutter.
Department of Education and the National Stuttering Association. Collins is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She discovered the field of speech-language pathology after beginning her undergraduate career in Theatre costuming and ending it in German.
Although she did not immediately realize her calling, she had a few interesting adventures along the way, including sewing costumes for the Mardi Gras Krewe of Apollo and working as an au pair for a year in Germany. Collins worked for several years as a speech-language pathologist in a variety of settings, including hospitals, home health, nursing homes, Head Start Centers, Early Intervention Programs, and schools. Collins became motivated to pursue her doctorate in speech-language pathology because she wanted to be an agent of change in the delivery of school-based language-literacy interventions.
A complete list of courses excluding independent studies and thesis credits is included in my curriculum vitae. Since the fall of , I have prepared and taught 12 courses at UM and have taught between 8 and 36 credits each year. I have also supervised various independent studies and supervised theses. This course fulfilled the Group VII- Social Sciences general education requirement and provided students with an overview of language within the context of the global society.
