Faculty and Staff
At Elmhurst University, students in communication sciences and disorders learn face to face with talented faculty who are, first and foremost, dedicated teachers. They’re also researchers and practitioners who make a difference in their fields.
Full-Time Faculty
Cheri S. Carrico, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Professor and NSSLHA Advisor
Jennifer M.D. Kremkow, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Associate Professor and Program Director of M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders
Karen Perta, Ph.D., CCC-SLP (she/her)
Assistant Professor
Full-Time/Part-Time Clinical
Karen Cannon-Janettas, MHS, CCC-SLP
Fieldwork Coordinator
Annice Coughlan, SLPD, CCC-SLP
Clinical Assistant Professor
Ilana Feld, M.S., CCC-SLP
Clinical Assistant Professor
Lauren Ferguson, M.S., CCC-SLP
Clinical Assistant Professor
Victoria Jay, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor and Director of Elmhurst University Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic
Susanna Vargas, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor
Adjunct Faculty and Adjunct Clinical Educators
Staff
Francesca Garza
Administrative Assistant, Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic
Faculty Emerita
Professor Emerita
B.A., Kansas State University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Sabbatical, Northwestern University
Certificate of Clinical Competence, Speech-Language Pathology
Marjorie Goodban taught courses in intercultural communication, fluency disorders and speech science. Her primary research interest is communication development in children with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS), and she has presented numerous papers and seminars in Europe, Australia and the United States on this topic. Her videotapes demonstrating therapy procedures with children with this syndrome are requested by individuals and groups from numerous countries. She serves as the speech-language advisor to the CdLS Foundation.
Goodban has presented numerous papers at various conferences and has published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics, the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, the Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, and Language Speech and Hearing in Schools. The Arlt-Goodban norms for articulation, co-developed by Goodban, are used exclusively in some states.
From 1990 to 1996, Goodban was one of the nominees for Woman of the Year in DuPage County. She is an alumna of Elmhurst University. Prior to working at Elmhurst University, she was a research associate at the University of Illinois and the director of a VA Hospital Speech Clinic.