Linda I. Rosa-Lugo, EdD, CCC-SLP

President-Elect

Linda I. Rosa-Lugo, EdD, CCC-SLP, received her doctoral degree from Teachers College, Columbia University. She retired from the University of Central Florida in 2022 after serving as Associate Dean of Faculty Excellence, Graduate Programs and Global Affairs in the College of Health Professions and Sciences. At UCF, she was a teaching faculty member in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, the founding director of the UCF Listening Center, and now holds Emeritus status. Since 2023, she has been a Clinical Associate Professor at SUNY Stony Brook University.

Before entering academia, Dr. Rosa-Lugo held various teaching and administrative positions in schools and medical settings in New York City. She is a bilingual speech-language pathologist (SLP) and an educator of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Committed to interprofessional practice and education, Dr. Rosa-Lugo has received multiple collaborative grants from the U.S. Department of Education. Her projects have focused on language and literacy, the preparation of SLPs to serve multilingual children with communication disorders and listening and spoken language interventions for children and adolescents with hearing loss from diverse backgrounds. Over the past 30 years, her research and publications have explored these critical areas.

A longtime member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Dr. Rosa-Lugo has been actively involved for nearly 30 years. She is an ASHA Fellow and a recipient of ASHA’s International Achievement and Diversity Awards. She has served as Vice President for Professional Practice and President of the Hispanic Caucus. Additionally, she has been a site visitor for the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) and chaired the ASHA/PAHO ad hoc committee addressing the needs of individuals with hearing loss in El Salvador. Her leadership extends to professional development roles, including serving as the Professional Development Manager of Special Interest Group 17 (Global Issues in Communication Sciences and Related Disorders) and as a longstanding member of Special Interest Group 14 (Cultural and Linguistic Diversity). Her contributions to the Florida Association of Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists earned her the association’s highest recognition.