Jayanti Ray
Email: j-ray@bethel.edu
Job Titles
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Program Director of the Undergraduate and Graduate Speech and Language Pathology Program
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Adjunct Instructor of Speech Language and Pathology
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Jayanti Ray, PhD, CCC-SLP is the founding program director of the undergraduate and graduate programs in Speech-Language Pathology at Bethel University. She has been teaching for the past 25 years in higher education in the United States. Her current clinical and research interests include communication and cognitive disorders in older adults along with oromyofunctional disorders and voice.
Started at Bethel
2024
Education
- All India Institute of Speech and Hearing - M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, 1993
- Bhavnager University - Ph.D. in Speech-Language Pathology, 1998
Biography
Jayanti Ray, PhD, CCC-SLP is the founding program director of the undergraduate and graduate programs in Speech-Language Pathology at Bethel University. She has been teaching for the past 25 years in higher education in the United States. During this time, she has received several awards for leadership, teaching, service, and research. Prior to that she was working as a speech-langauge pathologist in hospitals, homehealth, outpatient clinics, private practice, and nursing homes. Her current clinical and research interests include communication and cognitive disorders in older adults along with oromyofunctional disorders and voice across the lifespan. She has presented numerous papers at various state, national, and international conventions. Her publications are featured in various professional peer-reviwed journals. She has provided invited talks on select clinical topics at national and international professioanal meetings. She serves as an editor for a peer-reviewed state journal and serves on the editorial board for three peer-reviewed professional journals. She has served in many leadership roles for lead professional and non-profit organizations. She volunteers during her spare time to provide professional services to various community organizations for improving population health.
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