Ellen R. Cohn PhD, CCC- SLP, ASHA Fellow, a part-time instructor for the Department of Communication and Rhetoric, University of Pittsburgh, was a Provost’s Office Seminar Diversity Fellow. She previously served as Professor, Communication Science and Disorders, and Associate Dean for Instructional Development, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and as Interim Director, Undergraduate Program in Rehabilitation.
Cohn is a co-author of books on the topics of: diversity in higher education; communication as culture (three editions with Dr. Jack Gareis); telerehabilitation, communication science and disorders (a casebook; 2nd edition in press), videofluoroscopy and cleft palate speech; Tele-AAC; Assistive and Augmentative Communication; and Diversity in Higher Education Remote Learning: A Practical Guide (in press).
She co-authored two programs at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Law: Certificate Program in Disability Law, and the first MSL with a Concentration in Disability Law. Cohn has served as the founding Editor of the peer-reviewed International Journal of Telerehabilitation for over a decade. She received the 2019 Editor’s award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Perspectives Journal, for her article on tele-ethics. Cohn is a frequent invited presenter on telehealth.
Courses Taught at Pitt
- COMMRC 1181 - Health Communication
- COMMRC 1102 - Organizational Communication
- COMMRC 1109 - Non-Verbal Communication
- COMMRC 1730 - Special Topics - Health
Representative Publications
Diversity in Higher Education
Communication as Culture (three editions with Dr. Jack Gareis)
Telerehabilitation, communication science and disorders (a casebook; 2nd edition in press)
Videofluoroscopy and cleft palate speech
Tele-AAC
Assistive and Augmentative Communication
Diversity in Higher Education Remote Learning: A Practical Guide (in press).