Rate My Professor Courtney Byrd

Courtney T. Byrd is a Full Professor, Associate Chair, and Graduate Advisor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. She holds a B.S. in Communication Disorders from Louisiana State University Shreveport (1997), an M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology from Texas Christian University (1999), a Ph.D. in Speech-Language Pathology from Vanderbilt University (2003), and completed an NIH F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Texas at Austin (2004-2005). Byrd joined UT Austin in 2004 as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Lecturer, and Clinical Supervisor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She advanced to Assistant Professor (2006-2013), Associate Professor (2013-2019), and Full Professor (2019-present). Since 2017, she has served as Associate Chair, and since 2018 as SLP Graduate Advisor. Byrd is the Founding and Executive Director of the Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education and Research, which includes the Michael and Tami Lang Stuttering Institute (founded 2014), the Dealey Family Foundation Stuttering Clinic, and the Dr. Jennifer and Emanuel Bodner Developmental Stuttering Lab. She also serves as Vice President for Research for The Stuttering Foundation (2017-present) and has been an active member of the National Stuttering Association for over 25 years.