Programs
Departments & Divisions
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.
-
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
-
Instruction & Training
- MSLP5004: Research Methods, 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
-
Publications
- Comparing patterns of formulaic language use across spontaneous speech contexts in individuals with nonfluent aphasia and health
- Acoustic-lexical characteristics of child-directed speech between 7 and 24 months and their impact on toddlers’ phonological pro
- Early phonological predictors of toddler language outcome
- Heart and ___ or give and ___? An exploration of variables that influence binomial completion for individuals with and without a
- Error consistency in acquired apraxia of speech with aphasia: Effects of the analysis unit
- An exploration of the role of executive functions in preschoolers’ phonological development
- Cognitive factors and residual speech sound disorder: Basic science, translational research, and some clinical frameworks
- 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
- Online dataset: Comparison of clinical to typically-developing children’s phonological abilities across three different tasks
-
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 currently coordinates the summer Adult Communication Program at UT Health's School of Health Professions. The program trains graduate students to work with adults from the community with communication disorders including post-stroke aphasia, primary progressive aphasia, and cognitive-communication, and motor speech disorders: