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Leah Beekman

Dr. Leah Beekman-Velarde

Assistant Professor, Clinical Faculty

Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences; Communication Sciences and Disorders

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Office Location: Building 9401, Rinker Campus

Email: beekman@chapman.edu

Education:: William Paterson University of New Jersey, Bachelor of Arts
William Paterson University of New Jersey, Master of Science
Case Western Reserve University, Ph.D.

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications: Beekman, L. (2022). Chasing Bugs. Blurb Publishing.; Beekman, L. (2023). Rosy Rabbit's First Day of School. Blurb Publishing.; Beekman, L & Ciccia, A. (2020). Sarcastic Kids are my Favorite: A Case Study for sarcasm intervention. Ohio Speech Language Hearing Association eHearsay 10(2): 32-45.; Obeid, R., Beekman, L., Roizen, N., Ciccia, A. & Short, E.J. (2019). Using Telehealth to address disparities in cognitive, language, and emotion regulation problems in young children: A case illustration using the INvesT model. Birth Defects Research: 1-11.; Beekman, L. (2019). Clearly Misunderstood: The Ambiguous Language Test For Students With And Without Language Disorders (Electronic Thesis or Dissertation).; Ciccia, A., Beekman, L. & Ditmars, E. (2018) A clinically focused systematic review of social communication in pediatric TBI. Neurorehabilitation 42(2018): 331-344; Beekman, L & Ciccia, A. (2017). Preliminary Results of Students Who Are Typically Developing Defining Ambiguous Language. Ohio Speech Language Hearing Association eHearsay 7(2): 18-30.