Biography
Angela Wiley is a PhD student in the HILS program. She has worked as a speech-language pathologist (SLP) in skilled nursing facilities. Angela holds a BA in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) from the College of Wooster and a MS in CSD from Teachers College, Columbia University. Angela completed research with members of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association regarding SLP knowledge of voice treatments used to remediate vocal symptoms of individuals with Parkinson’s disease and has worked in the Speech Production and Perception Lab at Teachers College. In Ghana, Angela assisted with a professional development seminar for teachers on educating students with communication disorders and worked in the teaching hospitals to educate mothers of children born with cleft lip/palate. She is interested in increasing knowledge of communication disorders and their associated treatments within marginalized and disenfranchised communities, nationally or internationally, to improve health outcomes and/or quality of life for those individuals.
