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Elizabeth Carrow-Woolfolk, Ph. D |
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A native Houstonian Dr. Woolfolk is a renowned professor, author, lecturer, and past university administrator. She has
written college and graduate-level textbooks and has created several widely-used tests for assessing language disorders in children and adults. These have had a worldwide implact on the field of language theory and pathology and on reading.
During her professional career, Dr. Woolfolk has received numerous professional and community awards and honors. Most recently, Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio named an endowed chair in her honor. In 2001, the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association bestowed its highest honors on Woolfolk for her exceptional contributions.
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Dr. Woolfolk's efforts to research and assemble the massive amounts of documented historic genealogy information in this book and to present it in a charming, narrative story, make this book a major achievement.
She spent the last ten years researching and writing Pioneers, Patriots, and Planters after a lifetime dedicated to the specialty of language disorders in children. She served on the faculty as head of communication of disorders programs at Our Lady of the Lake University, the University of Texas, and Baylor College of Medicine after obtaining her doctoral degree from Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois.
Dr. Woolfolk has written three books and many articles on language theory and disorders and on reading. She is the author of five tests used worldwide to measure oral language comprehension and expression; most recently, she received the Honors of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association. An academic chair was named in her honor at Our lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas, in 2000.
Eliazabeth Woolfolk now divides her time between writing, lecturing, and consulting. She and her husband, Robert Moore Woolfolk, Jr., live in Houston, Texas.
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