SLHS Faculty - Janet Hawley

Janet L. Hawley is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. She received her B.A. in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her M.S. from the University of Arizona. Her expertise lies in the clinical management of neurogenic communication disorders in children, adolescents and adults, including traumatic brain injury, aphasia, and progressive neurological diseases, as well as the assessment and treatment of voice disorders (e.g. the LSVT program) and fluency disorders. She also specializes in accent reduction in foreign-born English speakers. For many years, Hawley worked as a speech-language pathologist in the hospital setting and has served as a manager of an interdisciplinary brain injury treatment program, and supervisor of a speech and hearing program. Over the course of her career she provided services in an adolescent psychiatric facility and served as a consultant to the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind to assist with program planning and behavior management of students with traumatic brain injury She also served on the board of the Brain Injury Association of Arizona and lead TBI patient and family support groups for many years. Supervising students in the clinic is Hawley's greatest love. She is also busy with the Aphasia program and organizing practicum placements (adult agencies and medical settings) off campus.