FACULTY COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER

Dr. Mary Gospel

Dr. Mary Gospel is Senior Clinical Faculty in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences in the College of Communication. She received her undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degrees at Indiana University in Speech and Hearing Sciences. She has been at Butler since 2001. Her professional interests focus on adult neurological disorders. She founded the Butler Aphasia Community in 2013, a therapy and support group for people who have suffered speech and language disorders following a neurological deficit such as a stroke or head injury. Over 250 Butler seniors have served as the student clinicians in the program, which has helped over 100 people to date. At Butler, she teaches courses in Clinical Phonetics, Phonological Development and Disorders, and Neurogenic Communication Disorders.