Chagit Edery Clark, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a New York and North Carolina licensed Speech-Language Pathologist certified by the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA). She is also a member of ASHA’s special interest group for Fluency Disorders (SIG-4). Dr. Clark earned her Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from the City University of New York, Brooklyn (CUNY, Brooklyn, NY), and her doctorate in Speech Pathology from Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN).

 

Clinical Experience.     Dr. Clark has worked in the field for 15+ years with children and adults of all ages. She has been trained in traditional stuttering therapy (e.g., fluency shaping and stuttering modification), as well as non-traditional techniques drawn from cognitive and sports psychology. She has also been trained in more specialized approaches, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, and Palin Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. Dr. Clark carefully selects strategies from these various approaches to design truly individualized treatment plans that are best suited for each client's personality, lifestyle, and communication goals. 

 

Academic and Teaching Experience.     Dr. Clark has taught, supervised, trained, and presented stuttering lectures to graduate- and undergraduate-level students, as well as to clinical fellows of speech-language pathology (SLP-CF). She also served as a research assistant, for several years, on the Vanderbilt University Developmental Stuttering Project (Nashville, TN). Her research focused on stuttering during the preschool ages, a time during which the disorder typically emerges. This allowed her to observe how stuttering manifests in its earliest stages. She has published her work in scholarly journals, presented at national conferences, and served as an invited reviewer for a number of academic journals.

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Dr. Clark currently lives in Asheville, NC with her husband and three children. During her free time, she enjoys traveling, reading (anything sci-fi or fantasy), and cooking. Her first name is pronounced “hah-geet,” which comes from the Hebrew word for “holiday.”