Dr. Dodd blends her 15 years’ experience as a school-based speech-language pathologist with her passion for the field into her teaching. Of particular interest to her is the practice of providing thorough, educationally relevant and legally defensible assessment for children suspected of autism spectrum disorder diagnoses. Her research and clinical experience focuses on the use of classroom based interventions to address the unique needs of children with autism spectrum disorders and other equally communicatively impairing disorders.