Nori (Norm) Kawai is currently a doctoral candidate under the direction of Dr. Charles Healey in the Department of Communication Disorders. His primary area of interest involves fluency disorders, particularly listeners' auditory perceptions of stuttering, attitudes toward people who stutter, and speech motor activities of people who stutter. Nori received his Bachelor of Education in Deaf Education from Hiroshima University, Japan in 1995. He earned his Master's degree in Special Education from the same institution in 1997. In 1998, Nori came to the U.S. to gain knowledge of speech-language pathology and received his Master of Arts in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2002. He holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) in speech-language pathology and looks forward to combining his clinical skills and research experiences to become a more effective practitioner and researcher upon his return to Japan. |
