Dr. Jean Gordon earned her PhD in Communication Sciences & Disorders at McGill University and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Before joining us as Professor & Chair here in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Rhode Island, she has been a faculty member in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at the University of Iowa. Dr. Gordon’s research focuses on declines and disorders of language production in typical and atypical aging. She has been funded externally by NIH, NIDCD (National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders) and private foundations. Her current research has addressed fluency in aphasia; word retrieval in aging, aphasia, and dementia; and age-related stereotypes associated with Elderspeak (ways of speaking to the Elderly).