Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of speech development and pediatric speech disorders, diagnostic methods and clinical teaching/clinical supervision. Dr. Strike-Roussos attended Northwestern University where she earned undergraduate and master's degrees in Communicative Disorders. She then worked for 10 years in Northern California as a speech specialist for Murray School District; as a speech pathologist at Children's Hospital of the East Bay; and as the clinic coordinator at California State University, Hayward (now CSU East Bay.) In 1984, Dr. Strike Roussos pursued doctoral studies at Indiana University. Upon completion of her Ph.D. in speech & hearing sciences, she returned to California and worked at St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica before joining the faculty at CSUN.