Nancy Creaghead, PhD, CCC-SLP, is professor and head of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Cincinnati. She teaches and engages in research in the areas of child language acquisition and intervention. She has lectured at numerous workshops and meetings at the local, state, national and international levels, including the 1978 through 2014 ASHA Conventions. She holds an MS from Purdue University and PhD from the University of Cincinnati. She was president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 2002, is an ASHA Fellow and recipient of ASHA Honors of the Association.