Cheryl Smith

Before joining LVC, Cheryl Smith practiced as an SLP for almost 20 years across various settings, including hospitals, home health care, outpatient clinics, and public schools. Her service included the supervision of numerous SLP graduate students. She continues to practice at a local acute rehabilitation hospital.

Professor Smith is the Medical Externship Placement Coordinator and a Clinical Supervisor in LVC’s free, on-campus Center for Speech, Language, and Hearing Disorders. She also advises the College’s chapter of the American Sign Language Club. She has supervised student research in aphasia treatment techniques, right hemisphere brain disorders, and Huntington’s disease.

Certifications:

• Licensure, Speech-Language Pathology Practitioner, Pennsylvania
• Certification, Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
• Certification, Vitalstim Therapy Provider
• Certification, SPEAK OUT! Therapy Provider

• Smith, C. (2025). Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) quality and clinical self-efficacy: Speech-language pathology graduate student perspectives on medically based externship experiences. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of the Cumberlands.
• August, A., Frank, M., Zook, M., Keegan, M., Nguyen, M., Smith, C., Richardson, L. (2024, April 11). Collaborative research and service learning: The role of a college clinic in meeting community needs in speech-language pathology [Poster Presentation]. PSHA 2024 Convention, Pittsburgh.

• Neuroscience of Communication
• Adult Cognitive-Linguistic Disorders
• Introduction to Medical Speech-Language Pathology
• Introduction to American Sign Language
• Medical Caseload Management
• Clinic I, II, and III