Patrizia Bonaventura

• Assistant Professor in the Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences Department.
• Dr. Bonaventura teaches three graduate courses ( SPCH 249 Voice disorders, SPCH 206 Speech science: production and perception, and SPCH 277 Cleft lip and palate speech) and one undergraduate course (SPCH 103 Introduction to Speech Science).
• Her research interests are in voice and prosody in children with autism; movement coordination in apraxia of speech; and development of technology for assessment of voice disorders.
  Dr. Bonaventura has founded and directs the Voice Disorders and Technology Lab.
• She has been awarded the Innovation Research Fellow grant from the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute of the Zarb School of Business, to develop a robot to work on dialogue interaction skills with children who have Autism Spectrum Disorders.
  (https://news.hofstra.edu/2023/03/24/zarb-school-of-business-announces-innovation-research-fellow-grant-recipients/ ).

• Assistant Professor in the Speech–Language Pathology Department.
• Lead Representative at the United Nations Department of Public Information-NGO (DPI-NGO) for Monmouth University/ Institute of Global Understanding. UNAI (United Nations Academic Impact) initiative representative.
• Taught three graduate courses (EDL 680–2 “Research Methods”, EDL 660, “Motor speech disorders” and EDL 655 “Voice and resonance disorders”) and four undergraduate courses (EDL 211, “Introduction to phonetics”, EDL 215, “Speech and Hearing Science”, EDL 214 “Anatomy and Physiology of Speech and Hearing” and EDL 213 “Neurological bases of speech communication”)
• Created materials and exercises to illustrate application of course concepts.
• Supported speech science lab sessions in the Speech Science Lab she founded, with experimental projects based on acoustic measurements, contributing to student engagement, and learning objectives.

Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Psychological Sciences (Communication Sciences program), with secondary Assistant Professor appointment in the Dept. of Cognitive Science.

Dr. Bonaventura taught two graduate courses (COSI 453, “Articulatory and phonology disorders” and COSI 497, “Methods of research”), two undergraduate courses (COSI 211, “Phonology and phonetics” and COSI 355 Introduction to Linguistics), and two bivalent courses (COSI 321/421, “Speech and Hearing Science” and COSI 302/402, “Instrumental Measurements in Speech Sciences”) in the Department of Psychological Sciences (Communication Sciences program). She also gave guest lectures for COGSCI 102, Cognitive Science.

Dr. Bonaventura founded and directed the Case Speech Production Lab, where she used the instrumentation (EMA, Nasometer, Computerized Speech lab suite) to carry out research on movement coordination in adult apraxia of speech and in children's speech disorders.