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Joyce Harris

Office: CMA 7.212
Email address: joyceharris@mail.utexas.edu
Phone: (512) 471-5406

Joyce L. Harris, Ph.D., an associate professor of speech-language pathology, joined the UT faculty and CSD Department in 2001. Her research interests involve the convergence of language, cognition, and aging in normal and communicatively impaired adults. Recent investigations have included the study of text comprehension in aging, particularly those factors related to the understanding of textual health-related information.

Harris is the author of The Source for Reminiscence Therapy and contributing co-editor of Communication Development and Disorders in African American Children: Research, Assessment, and Intervention, and Literacy in African American Communities. Her print scholarship also includes some 35 journal articles and book chapters on topics related to normal and disordered communicative process across the lifespan and in multicultural populations. Harris earned her Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from The University of Texas at Austin in 1992. She is a former Associate Editor for Language for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Past Chair of the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing's Board of Directors, and a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Research: Language and Cognitive Aging Laboratory (LANCAL)