Barbara J. Ehren, EdD, CCC-SLP, is a professor at the University of Central Florida and the Director of a doctoral program that focuses on language and literacy for learners who struggle.
She was a research scientist with the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning (KUCRL), where her emphasis was strategic reading for adolescents, collaboration among professionals in schools and school-wide literacy initiatives in secondary schools including response to intervention (RTI). Her experience includes working in public schools as an SLP, teacher and district administrator.