Robin Gillespie is a Clinical Supervisor/Instructor in the Department of Communication Disorders at North Carolina Central University. As Off-Site Coordinator for student externship placements, she is responsible for securing contracts with hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and private practices that are willing to supervise our students in their settings each semester. As a clinical supervisor, Ms. Gillespie takes 5-6 student clinicians to Healthy Start Academy each week to serve their K-8th grade students who have been identified as speech-language impaired.
Ms. Gillespie designed and is currently teaching the Observation in Practicum course which introduces graduate candidates in the program to the clinical aspects of speech-language pathology while securing their introductory twenty-five hours needed for entrance into their first experience as student clinicians. She also taught Dysphagia, swallowing disorders, from Spring 2003-Spring 2006 here at NCCU. In addition, Ms. Gillespie has presented research interests at the local, state, national, and most recently the international level. She especially enjoys presenting with her students!
Her research interests include: multicultural influences on education and service delivery in speech-language pathology as well as education as a whole. Her clinical interests include service delivery to moderate to severe mentally challenged adults where augmentative communication and assistive technology has been required to facilitate communication. Her clinical experience includes service delivery in a residential facility for mentally challenge clients, service delivery to children from infancy through middle school, service delivery in the geriatric setting, and of course, service delivery in the NCCU Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic.
In addition, Ms. Gillespie is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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