Catherine Curran

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Catherine Curran

Professor of Speech Communications

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Office Hours

Monday - [12:30 to 02:30]
Tuesday - [12:30 to 02:30]
Wednesday - [03:30 to 04:30]

Biography

Catherine Curran, professor of Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences, came to MSU Denver in August 1993. She has also worked as speech-language pathologist in a variety of educational and clinical settings.

Research Interests

    Catherine Curran's scholarship activities have addressed narrative assessment/intervention, bilingual language acquisition, social communication development, expository language instruction, supervision and undergraduate pedagogy in communication sciences.

Teaching Interests

    Catherine Curran teaches coursework in language development, child language disorders and phonetics. She also teaches clinical preparation coursework and coordinates the speech-language pathology assistant program at MSU Denver.

Education

PhD in Communication Disorders and Speech Science

University of Colorado

MS in Speech-Language Pathology

University of New Mexico

BA in Political Science

Trinity University

Published Works

    Johnson, L. K., Curran, E. C. . Reading and writing expository text: Project-based intervention. Northern Speech Services, Curran, E. C. (2012). Child language acquisition. Kendall-Hunt, Johnson, C., Blomberg, D., Curran, E. C. (2002). The 21st Century: A Psychology of Communication. , Curran, E. C., Lundy, E. J. (2001). Helping children develop and use theory of mind understanding. Colorado Early Childhood Journal, Lundy, E. J., Curran, E. C. (1998). Enhancing communications between student clinicians and parents of children receiving speech, language, and hearing services. Rocky Mountain Journal of Communication Disorders, Johnson, C., Blomberg, D., Curran, E. C. (1998). Sanity and Psychology of Communication. , Curran, E. C. (1997). Analyzing story characters: Facilitating higher-level comprehension skills in adolescents with learning disabilities. Intervention in School and Clinic, Curran, E. C., Kottenstette, D. (1997). Child language intervention: Tapping the magic of theatre.. The Clinical Connection, 10(3), 16-23, Johnson, C., Blomberg, D., Curran, E. C. (1997). Psychology of Communication. , Curran, E. C., Kintsch, E. (1996). Learning disabled adolescents' comprehension of naturalistic narratives. Journal of Educational Psychology, 88(3), 393-507. .