Biography

SallyAnn Giess received her doctoral degree from the University of Florida in 2005 with a research focus on assessment, diagnosis, and intervention for developmental dyslexia. Dr. Giess has been a speech-language pathologist for over 30 years. Her experience includes direct service delivery as a school-based SLP, clinical supervision, and academic teaching at the associate, undergraduate, and graduate levels in both traditional face-to-face and on-line formats.  Her areas of teaching and research interests include interprofessional collaboration and education, service delivery in schools, spoken and written language disorders, and evidence-based practice. She has published research and scholarly articles in professional journals and presented her work at state and national conferences. Dr. Giess is active at the national level through volunteer committee service with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and has held leadership positions with ASHA Special Interest Group 16, School-Based Issues. She serves on peer review panels for national research journals, reviews proposals for the ASHA National Convention, and writes and evaluates questions for the speech-language pathology Praxis exam which is required for ASHA certification.