She has over 20 years of clinical experience and 5 years of teaching and supervision at the undergraduate and graduate level. Her primary research interests include discourse in healthy aging and adult neurogenic populations (aphasia, right hemisphere, dementia), adult dysphagia, health literacy and health education of the elderly, and therapy considerations when working with bilingual/bicultural adult populations. She also works in various medical settings as a per diem SLP. She has co-authored journal articles and a book chapter on topics pertinent to discourse in healthy aging and aphasia. She has also presented on these topics in national conventions.