Office:   11B
Phone:   973-720-3353
Email:   magaldin@wpunj.edu
Office Hours:   By appointment

Department: Comm Disorder
Position: Assistant Professor, Graduate Program Director
Area Specialization: Childhood Language Disorders

Educational Background

• Ph.D. from New York University
• M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology, Kean University
• B.A. in Speech-Language Pathology, SUNY College at Cortland

Professional Affiliations

• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• New York Speech-Language Hearing Association

Teaching Interests

• Introduction to Communication Disorders
• Language Disorders in the Schools
• Language Disorders in Children
• Language Theory and Therapy
• Graduate Clinical Practicum: Diagnostics & Therapy

Research Interests

• Therapeutic intervention strategies for children with autism
• the relationship between prelinguistic behaviors and language development in typically developing children and children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
• The relationship between gesture and language in young children
• Early markers of Language Impairments