Beth Byers

Clinical Supervisor/Instructor
Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist, CCC-SLP
Office: Speech and Hearing Building, Room 120-I
Phone: (409) 880-7601
Email: babergeron@lamar.edu

Education

  • M.S., Speech Pathology, Lamar University, 2010
  • B.S., Communication Disorders, Lamar University, 2007

Board Certification/Licensure

  • 2011 Certificate for Clinical Competence – American Speech-Language Hearing Association
  • 2011 Texas Licensure – State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

Teaching 

  • Past Undergraduate Courses - Clinical Processes, Language Acquisition
  • Current Graduate Courses - Advanced Clinical Practicum, Language Based Disorders- School Age Child, ST: School Practice 

Summer Program

Speech Stars

Research Interests

Improving workload approach for school based SLP's, speech sound disorders, school age language disorders, improving understanding of treatment intensity factors for speech sound disorders in the school setting

Publications

Byers, B. A., Bellon-Harn, M. L., Allen, M., Saar, K. W., Manchaiah, V., & Rodrigo, H. (2021). A comparison of intervention intensity and service delivery models with school-age children with speech sound disorders in a school setting. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 52(2), 529–541. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_lshss-20-00057
Bellon-Harn, M., Byers, B., & Lappi, J. (2014). Treatment intensity: Effects of interactive book reading on narrative abilities in preschool children with SLI. Communication Disorders Quarterly.

Non-Peer Reviewed Presentations and Posters

Guest Contributor to speechpathology.com. 20Q: Flexible Scheduling in the School Setting: Evidence-based options

Presented at Southeast Texas Speech and Hearing Association: Are you ready for a change? Service Delivery Options in the School Setting, February 2019

Presented at Southeast Texas Speech and Hearing Association: Ensuring Success for Adolescents with ASD, November 2019

“Repeated Storybook Reading: Language Impairment” presentation at the Texas Speech and Hearing Association Convention, Houston, Texas, Spring 2014.