Nickola Wolf Nelson

Nickola Wolf Nelson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Language, Speech, and Hearing Sciences at Western Michigan University, where she previously served as Director of the PhD program in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Health and Human Services. She continues to conduct research and provide consultation and presentations on language/literacy development and disorders among school-age students, emphasising an interprofessional, curriculum-relevant perspective on assessment and intervention. She is the lead author of TILLS, as well as two highly regarded professional books plus numerous articles and chapters on classroom-based language intervention and related topics. Dr. Nelson began her professional career as a school clinician in Kansas and then as a speech-language consultant specialist serving schools in Michigan. Nelson has been awarded Fellowship in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities, as well as the Kleffner Clinical Career Award from the ASHFoundation and the Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

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