Staff Profile

Dr. Naomi Gurevich

Assistant Professor, Departmental Honors Coordinator Website: http://www.eiu.edu/commdis/

Education & Training

2011 - Master of Arts, Clinical Speech Language Pathology, Speech & Hearing Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2003 - Doctor of Philosophy, Phonology, Linguistics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1998 - Master of Arts, Linguistics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1996 - Master of Arts, Teaching English as a Second Language, English Department, University of Washington, Seattle
1989 - Bachelor of Arts, Slavic Literatures and Languages, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Conference Presentations

• 2016 - Use of Formal Assessments of Intelligibility for People with Dysarthria. Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ISHA) Annual Convention, Rosemont, IL, with Sydney Scamihorn
• 2016 - Report on Trends with Respect to Telepractice among Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Professionals. Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ISHA) Annual Convention, Rosemont, IL, with Telepractice Committee
• 2015 - Case Studies in the Classroom. Wakonse Conference on College Teaching
• 2013 - Invited small group presenter at the Symposium on Activity-Based Approaches to Communication (SABAC 2013), SHS, University of Illinois: Technology and CSD: Device Apps in Clinical Practice.
• 2004 - Co-presenter with Abbas Benmamoun, NCOLCTL (National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages) Seventh National Conference, Madison, Wisconsin: Arabic Online at the University of Illinois.
• 2003 - MCWOP 9 (Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology) in Urbana-Champaign, IL: Functional Consequences of Certain Phonetically Conditioned Sound Changes.
• 2002 - Invited presenter at the “Using Instructional Technology in the Teaching of Business Foreign Languages” workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Session One: Content-Based Interactive Technology. Session Two: Technology Tools for Foreign Language Teaching.
• 2002 - TeachIt (Teaching with Instructional Technology) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• 2002 - Co-presenter with Mustafa Mughazy and Abbas Benmamoun, NCOLCTL (National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages) Fifth National Conference, Washington DC: The Teaching of Arabic Online.
• 2001 - MCWOP 7 (Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology & Phonetics) in Iowa City, Iowa: How Functional Considerations Constrain Phonetic Changes: the Case of Lenition.
• 2001 - Co-presenter with Mustafa Mughazy, Annual International African Language Teachers Association (ALTA) Conference at University of Wisconsin-Madison: Arabic Online... Finally.
• 2000 - WCCFL XIX (West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics) at UCLA: Southern Paiute Reduplication and Correspondence Theory.
• 1997 - TESOL 97 (International Conference of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) member of panel on Pedagogical Practices in Academic Writing.

Publications

• 2011 - Lenition. In Oostendorp, Marc van, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume & Keren Rice (Eds.), “The Blackwell Companion to Phonology”. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. Vol 3, Ch.66.
• 2004 - Lenition and Contrast: Functional Consequences of Certain Phonetically Conditioned Sound Changes. Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series, Routledge: NY.
• 2001 - A Critique of Markedness-based Theories in Phonology. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 31:2: 89-114.
• 2000 - Reduplication in Southern Paiute and Correspondence Theory. Proceedings of the 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Cascadilla Press. 167-177.
• 1999 - Phyllumphile or Phyllumfoe?: Re-examining Greenberg’s method of Mass Comparison. In Shevoroshkin, Vitaly and Paul J. Sidwell (Eds.). “Historical Linguistics and Lexicostatistics.” Australian National University: Melbourne. 119-143.

Funding & Grants

Eastern Illinois University, Faculty Development Grant (2014)
Eastern Illinois University, Interdisciplinary Research in the Sciences Grant (2015)
Eastern Illinois University, Redden Fund Grant for the Improvement of Undergraduate Instruction (2015)

Frequently Taught Courses

CDS 2100 - Phonetics and Phonological Development
CDS 4666 - Honors Seminar
CDS 4644 - Honors Thesis
CDS 4900 - Clinical Practice
CDS 5350 - Cognitive Communication Disorders
CDS 5900 - Advanced Clinical Practice
CDS 5910 - Diagnostics in Speech Language Pathology

Research & Creative Interests

• Intelligibility of Adults with Dysarthria
• Interdepartmental Dementia Neuro-Rehab Lab and Support Group for Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia
• Oral Motor Exercises (OMEs) for Dysphagia
• GERD Awareness

Professional Affiliations

• ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
• ISHA (Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Associatio)
• Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society)