C. Schuele

C. Melanie Schuele, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a professor in Vanderbilt University’s Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences and directs the university’s Child Language and Literacy Laboratory. She earned a Ph.D. in child language from the University of Kansas and previously worked as a speech-language pathologist in school and clinical settings serving young children with language impairments. Her research focuses on language development, phonological awareness, and early reading in children with typical and atypical language development.

Schuele is a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and has published in journals including Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research and Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. With Naomi D. Murphy, she co-authored The Intensive Phonological Awareness (IPA) Program, an intervention resource for developing phonological-awareness skills in young learners.