Background
Mary Gordon-Brannan is a professor emerita at Portland State University and served on the faculty in the Speech & Hearing Sciences Program from 1972 to 2002 in the roles of clinical supervisor, professor, Program Director, and Acting Department Chair. During winter, 2003, she taught at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. Prior to working at PSU, she practiced as a speech-language pathologist in public schools in Minnesota and Oregon. She is the co-author of a major textbook in articulation/phonological disorders, Clinic Management of Articulatory and Phonological Disorders (3rd ed.). Her primary areas of teaching and research include articulation/phonological disorders, phonetics, intelligibility, and articulation/phonological treatment efficacy. Over the years, she was active in both state and national professional associations. Mary has made several presentations at professional conferences, as well as workshops and inservice presentations across the country. She is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and received honors of the Oregon Speech-Language and Hearing Association. Mary is continuing some professional activities, e.g., teaching and advising, in the Speech & Hearing Sciences Department at Portland State University. She is also involved in voluntary activities for the University primarily through the Retirement Association of Portland State (RAPS).
