Associate Clinical Professor

Department: CSD
Phone: 928-523-7439
Email: michelle.thomas2@nau.edu

Michelle Thomas, MS, CCC-SLP
Assistant Clinical Professor
MS, Northern Arizona University
BS, Northern Arizona University

Courses taught:

CSD 191 – Communication Disorders in Society
CSD 302: Speech-language Pathology Assistant (SLPA) — Adult Communication Disorders
CSD 350 – Communication Development in Children
CSD 352 – Phonetics
CSD 455C  – Survey in Speech Pathology (capstone course)
CSD 460: Observation In Pathology And Audiology
CSD 510 and 510L- Clinical & Educational Methods in SLP
CSD 521: Communication Disorders: Birth To Three
CSD 553: Multicultural Issues In Speech-language Pathology
CSD 602: Clinical Practicum In Speech-language Pathology
CSD 685: Graduate Research
CSD 697: Independent Study
HS 300W – Applied Ethics in Health Care (junior writing requirement)
HS 390W: Current Health Issues

Michelle “Shelly” Thomas is a 25-year veteran in the field of speech-language pathology. She is a “jack of all trades” and is well versed in the assessment and treatment of children and adults. She has traveled extensively on the Hopi and Navajo Indian reservations and she is dedicated to issues related to cultural and linguistic diversity. She specializes in accent management with adults from all language backgrounds. She has spent much of her career supervising and teaching graduate clinicians in elementary schools and in the NAU Speech and Hearing Clinic, in addition to supervising SLPA students. Shelly teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate level courses.