Patrick Finn
Communication Sciences and Special Education (Faculty)
Professor
514 Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706.542.4572
Email: pfinn@uga.edu
Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education at the University of Georgia, Athens. Prior to this, he was a faculty member in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He received his BA (Hons) in psychology from York University, Toronto, Canada, his MS in speech-language pathology from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and his PhD in speech and hearing sciences from the University of California at Santa Barbara. His main research interest is the development of a framework for the scientific evaluation of treatment. Throughout most of his career, he has focused this interest on the communication disorder of stuttering; but more recently, he has broadened this focus to include the concept of critical thinking and its application to evidence-based practice. His publications have included research on measurement issues related to stuttering treatment outcome; investigations of conceptual and methodological issues related to long-term recovery from stuttering; and, most recently, the development of critical thinking skills in students and clinicians. Currently, he is writing a book on critical thinking and its applications to evidence-based practice. He was recently appointed as an associate editor for the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and he has also served as an associate editor for the Journal of Fluency Disorders and just completed a 3-year term as a member of the Research and Scientific Affairs committee of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and served as its liaison to the Advisory Committee on Evidence-Based Practice.