Dr. Susan Hendler Lederer
Speech-Language Pathologist
Susan Hendler Lederer, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at Adelphi University, Garden City, Long Island, NY. She is a state licensed and nationally certified speech-language pathologist with 25 years of professional experience in the areas of speech, language, and emergent literacy development and disorders. Dr. Lederer is a member of the American Speech-Language Association, as well as the NYS and Long Island associations.
Since 1998, Dr. Lederer and her Adelphi colleagues and students have been conducting and researching programs for late-talking toddlers and preschoolers at risk of reading failure. Efficacy and descriptions of these programs have been published in peer reviewed journals and presented nationally. In addition, Dr. Lederer is the lead author of the 2005 curriculum, PreRead: An Integrated Emergent Literacy Program. She is the author of I Can Say That, the first in a series of books/CD-ROMs fostering early vocabulary and emergent literacy. She is presently working on the second in the series, I Can Do That.
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