Tanya Gallagher, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Speech and Hearing Science
College of Applied Health Sciences
Email: tmgallag@illinois.edu
Phone:(217) 333-2131
Fax:(217) 244-2235
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Speech and Language Science, 1971.
Research and Professional Interests
Dr. Gallagher’s goal is to facilitate teaching, research, and public engagement activities that promote quality of life across the lifespan.
Her research interests include:
- Syntactic and pragmatic language assessment and intervention with language disordered children at high risk for social and behavioral problems
- In-utero fetal brain development in populations at high risk for communication disorders
- Post-treatment effects following treatment for oro-pharyngeal cancer
- Speech-language pathology treatment outcomes.