Victoria S. Henbest, Ph.D.

Victoria S. Henbest, Ph.D.

Victoria S. Henbest, Ph.D., is an ASHA certified speech-language pathologist and assistant professor in the Speech Pathology and Audiology Department at the University of South Alabama where she teaches undergraduate introductory courses on language and speech disorders as well as graduate-level school-age language and literacy and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) courses. Prior to earning her doctoral degree, Dr. Henbest worked for 5 years as a full-time clinician in a public-school early childhood setting with preschool-age children with speech and language needs, including children on the autism spectrum, those with intellectual disabilities, and medically complex children. Dr. Henbest’s primary research interests include word-level reading and spelling and the relation between linguistic awareness skills, particularly morphological awareness, and literacy development. She has published and presented on these topics at the state, national, and international levels. Dr. Henbest is co-author of a textbook on child language disorders entitled Language Disorders in Children: Fundamental Concepts of Assessment and Intervention, Third Edition.