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Mrs. Staltari is a Clinical Assistant Professor, and Clinical Education Coordinator,
in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology. She has been a practicing speech-language
pathologist for over 35 years, working with both pediatric and adult populations and
has been with the university for 25 years. Her areas of specialty include communication
and cognitive disorders that result from neurological impairment in the adult population.
Additionally, best practices in clinical instruction and supervision for graduate
student clinicians is an area of interest. Mrs. Staltari provides clinical instruction
of student clinicians in individual and group sessions for the adult neurogenic population
at the Duquesne University Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, as well as in the Clinic
Seminar courses. She is also engaged in didactic coursework for both pre-professional
and professional phase students. Specifically, Introduction to Communication Disorders
and Clinical Procedures serve as a foundation for their clinical practicum experiences.
Professional phase courses include Special Topics in clinical practice as well as
essential information regarding in the Business Practices course to provide knowledge
and skills when working with communication disorders across a variety of service delivery
settings.
Education
- M.A. CCC-SLP, Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, 1985
Research Interests or Expertise
- Clinical Instruction and Supervision
- Stuttering Disorders for Children and Adults
- Aphasia Following Neurological Damage
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Areas of Academic Specialty: Areas of interest include communication disorders that
result from neurological impairment in the adult population, as well as pediatric
fluency and phonology. 'Contextual Group Communication Therapy for Persons with Aphasia:
A Scaffolded Discourse Approach, Garrett, Kathryn L., Staltari, Caterina F. and Moir,
Laura J. in, Group Treatment of Neurogenic Communication Disorders, The Expert Clinician's
Approach, 2 nd Ed. Roberta J. Elman Professional Presentations: -Use of a Discourse
Group Model for Adults Presenting with Mild Language Disorders,' Caterina F. Staltari,
M.A., CCC-SLP. Paper presented at The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
National Convention, Washington D.C. November, 2000. 'An extension of Structured Language
Approaches with Persons with Aphasia-, Kathryn L. Garrett, Ph.D., CCC-SLP and Caterina
F. Staltari, M.A., CCC-SLP. Paper presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association National Convention, New Orleans, November 2001 -Outcomes of pediatric
fluency treatment as perceived by parent and child-, Caterina F. Staltari, M.A., CCC-SLP,
Felsenfeld, Susan, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Reline, Ashley, B.S., McGuire, Kristen, B.S. Paper
presented at the 2007 ASHA Schools Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2007 -Remediation
of Residual Sound Errors in School Aged Children-, Caterina F. Staltari, M.A., CCC-SLP.
Presented at the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, August, 2009. 'Formative Assessment
of Clinical Documentation-, Marra, L., Neff, A., Rentschler, G., and Staltari, C.,
Poster Presentation at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association National Convention,
New Orleans, November 2009. Measuring the Impact of Speech Sound Disorders Using Caregiver
and Patient Report Questionnaires - Rusiewicz, Staltari, Wells, & Milloy. PSHA Convention,
April, 2011, ASHA Convention, Nov. 2011 Measuring the Impact of Speech Sound Disorders
Using Caregiver and Patient Report Questionnaires - Rusiewicz, Staltari, Wells, &
Milloy., ASHA Convention, Nov. 2011 Generalization of Word Retrieval Following Semantic
Feature Treatment - Wallace, Kimelman, Staltari, & Brumbaugh, ASHA Convention, Nov.
2011 Aphasia Workshop for Healthcare Students, Cunningham, Kantner, Davin, Accepted
for presentation at PSHA Convention, March, 2012
- Rangos School of Health Sciences Deans Award for Excellence in Service to the Mission