Maureen Marx

Maureen Marx, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Chairperson

Title: Associate Professor
Office: 125 Currens Hall
Phone: 309/298-1955
E-mail: M-Marx@wiu.edu

Maureen G. Marx, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is an Associate Professor, Chair, and Program Director of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She is also currently the Graduate Program Coordinator and Adviser. She joined Western Illinois University in 1984 as a clinic coordinator and instructor. She taught phonetics, articulation and phonological disorders, language disorders, and continues to teach language theory and development, and applied phonology. She also supervises clinic practicum. Prior to receiving her doctorate in Speech and Hearing Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992, she had worked as a speech therapist for several years in both hospital and public school settings. She had also served as diagnostic consultant to adult developmental centers and early childhood programs on ISBE grants in the region.

She served on the editorial board of Asia Pacific Journal of Speech Language Hearing from 1999 to 2004. She was an invited grant reviewer for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in 2002. She was appointed by the governor to serve at the Illinois Early Learning Council from 2005 to 2007. She has presented and conducted workshops at local, regional, state, and national conferences, and has authored scientific papers that have been accepted at international conferences. She is a member of several state, national and international professional organizations. Her principal academic and research interests are in the areas of linguistic-cognitive lifespan development and evolution (chiefly on the interface of logic and syntax), clinical phonology, literacy, and second language learning and bilingualism.