She teaches a graduate course entitled: "Counseling in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology". She has taught children in Early Childhood and Early Childhood Special Education programs for over thirty years, and has collaborated with Speech-Language Pathologists at the Birth to Three and Preschool Language Programs at Purdue for the past twenty two years. She has worked in First Steps, Head Start and in program development through the ARC, and has special interests in inclusion, music, early literacy and exploring affective issues related to early childhood, children with special needs and family systems.