She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in language development, school-age language development/disorders, and administration for school speech-language pathologists. She received her PhD in speech-language pathology from the University, after working as a practicing speech-language pathologist in the public schools for several years. Dr. Marinellie’s research interests include school-age children’s syntactic and lexical development. She is the is the author of numerous publications and serves as a reviewer for the journal Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools.