College of Fine Arts and Communication

Quesal elected ASHA fellow

Robert Quesal, professor in the communication sciences and disorders department, has been elected a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).

According to the ASHA website (asha.org/about/awards): The ASHA Fellowship recognizes professional or scientific achievement and is given to members who have made outstanding contributions to the professions. The award is one of the highest honors that ASHA can bestow and is retained for life.

A board-recognized specialist in fluency disorders, Quesal also holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP) from ASHA and the Illinois state license in Speech-Language Pathology.

He joined Western Illinois’ faculty in 1991 as a teacher and researcher. His primary research in the area of stuttering focuses on the psychosocial aspects of stuttering, including the speaker’s experience of stuttering, as well as teasing and bullying. Quesal is the recipient of Western’s College of Fine Arts and Communication Scholarly Activity Award for 2008-2009.

Quesal earned his bachelor’s (1976) and master’s (1977) degrees in speech and hearing sciences at Indiana University and his Ph.D. (1984) in speech pathology at the University of Iowa.

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