Naomi Gurevich
Naomi Gurevich, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Dr. Naomi Gurevich is Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, an Office of Academic Affairs Faculty Research Fellow, and the Director of the Clinical Linguistics and Acquired Disorders (CLAD) Lab. Dr. Gurevich received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Linguistics and an M.A. in Clinical Speech Language Pathology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.A. in Teaching from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a B.A. in Slavic Literatures and Languages from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Prior research in Phonology focused on functional considerations of phonetically conditioned sound substitutions with a landmark publication on "Lenition". Research in Communication Disorders targets clinical linguistics as it applies to clinical measures of intelligibility in adult populations with dysarthria and to accented speech.
Research Awards: Pippert Research Scholar Award (2022); Featured Faculty for Excellence in Research/Creative Endeavor award (2024); 2025-26 Outstanding Research Award.
Areas of Specialization: Clinical Linguistics, Intelligibility, Phonetics, Phonology, Acoustics, Speech and Language Science
