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Clinical
Catherine Torrington Eaton, PhD, CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor
Dr. Eaton is a clinician-researcher interested in assessment and treatment of post-stroke aphasia, neurodegenerative language disorders, and issues of clinical supervision. She teaches courses in research methods, neurogenic language disorders, and neuroanatomy and physiology.
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Professional Background
Education
- 2014 - PhD - Hearing and Speech Sciences - University of Maryland at College Park
- 2004 - M.S. - Speech and Hearing Science - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 1995 - B.A. - Linguistics and Russian - Macalester College
Training
- 2014 - certificate - Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences - University of Maryland at College Park
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Instruction & Training
- MSLP5000: Neurological bases of speech, hearing, and language, UT Health Science Center
- MSLP5006 Aphasia and Related Disorders, UT Health Science Center
- Neurogenic language disorders, Motor speech disorders, Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology, Speech and Hearing Science, Our Lady of the Lake University
- Structures and functions of communication and swallowing, Baylor University online
- Aphasia, Cognitive-communication disorders, Pediatric speech sounds disorders, Clinical management, Rockhurst University
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Research & Grants
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Service
Department
Associate Graduate Program Director
Institutional
Faculty Council, Interprofessional Practice Research Initiative, Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC)
National
Council member, Stroke Scientific Committee on Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, American Heart and Stroke Association
Committe member, Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology Professional Standards, Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS)
Community
Director, San Antonio Network for Aphasia (SANA)
Board member, Alamo Head Injury Association
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Publications
- An innovative clinical interprofessional education experience to advance skill in communication with aphasic patients (2024)
- To make a long story short: A descriptive study of formulaic language usage across subtypes of post-stroke fluent aphasia (2023)
- What do you expect? A comparison of perceptions on the roles of clinical educators and graduate clinicians (2022)
- Comparing patterns of formulaic use across speech contexts in individuals with nonfluent aphasia and healthy controls (2021)
- Acoustic-lexical characteristics of child-directed speech 7-24 months and their impact on phonological processing (2021)
- Early phonological predictors of toddler language outcomes (2019)
- Heart and _ or give and _? An exploration of variables that influence binomials for patients with and without aphasia (2018)
- Error consistency in acquired apraxia of speech with aphasia: Effects of the analysis unit (2018)
- An exploration of the role of executive functions in preschoolers’ phonological development (2016)
- Cognitive factors and residual speech sound disorder: Basic science, translational research, and some clinical frameworks (2015)
- Non-word repetition in two-year-olds: replication of an adapted paradigm and a useful methodological extension
- Rate and phonological variation in preschool children: Effects of indirect versus direct influence (2013)
- Online dataset: Comparison of clinical to typically-developing children’s phonological abilities across three different tasks
Texbook
Taliancich Klinger, C., Kennedy, A., & Torrington Eaton, C. (2025). Goal setting in speech-language pathology: A guide to clinical reasoning. Plural Publishing Inc. ISBN13: 978-1-63550-432-3
Textbook Chapters
Bernstein Ratner, N. & Torrington Eaton, C. (2024). Atypical language development (10th edition). In J. Berko Gleason & N. Bernstein Ratner (Eds), The Development of Language (pp. 281-334). Plural Publishing Inc. ISBN13: 978-1-63550-426-2
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Clinical
Dr. Eaton has worked as a speech-language pathologist in a number of settings to include acute care, acute rehab, subacute rehab, outpatient, early intervention, and middle and high schools. She has significant clinical supervision experience, and leads the San Antonio Network for Aphasia (SANA) and the summer Aphasia Program at UT Health's School of Health Professions. These community programs train graduate students to work with adults with communication disorders including post-stroke aphasia and primary progressive aphasia.