Tyler named College of Health and Human Services associate dean

Dr. Ann TylerDr. Ann Tyler has been named to serve as associate dean of the College of Health and Human Services, effective July 1, 2015. As chair and professor in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology since coming to Western Michigan University in 2007, Tyler has guided numerous curricular changes, led strategic planning and policy development, and fostered community partnerships and increases in scholarship giving. She is a Fellow of the American Speech Language Hearing Association and has been a faculty member for 35 years in comprehensive university systems, where she has directed an on-campus clinic, taught undergraduate and graduate courses, and mentored doctoral and master’s students.

An active scholar, Tyler has presented and published extensively in childhood speech sound disorders. Her research, which focuses on intervention effectiveness for different populations of children with speech and co-occurring language difficulties, represents rigorous levels of treatment evidence. It has been supported by internal, foundation and external competitive funding, including a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Previously a Visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, she currently serves on two international editorial boards and is serving a second term as associate editor for the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. She is a frequent member of Speech Sound Disorders and Academic and Clinical Education subcommittees of the Convention Program Committee for the American Speech Language and Hearing Association. In addition, she is completing a second term on the Centralized Application Service Advisory Board of the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders.