Kenn Apel, PhD
About the Author
Kenn Apel, PhD, is a professor of communication disorders at The Florida State University, where he teaches courses and conducts research on school-age language-learning disabilities. He has more than 25 years of experience conducting research and teaching classes on language learning and on working with children, adolescents, and adults who have language problems and language-based learning deficits. Dr. Apel is frequently invited to speak at national, state, and local meetings about spoken language disabilities and assessment and remediation of reading, writing, and spelling disabilities. Dr. Apel is co-author of Beyond Baby Talk: From Sounds to Sentences, A Parent’s Complete Guide to Language Development (Prima Publishing), SPELL Spelling Performance Evaluation for Language and Literacy® and SPELL-Links to Reading & Writing: A Word Study Curriculum (Learning By Design, Inc.), and has served as associate editor, guest editor, and series editor for several scholarly journals and books, including Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in the Schools (LSHSS); Topics in Language Disorders; and Challenges in Language and Literacy (Guilford Press). Dr. Apel is a fellow and certified member of the American Speech- Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and an ASHA board recognized specialist in child language. He is also a member of the Language Learning & Education Special Interest Division of ASHA.
