Gretchen A. Bennett

MA, CCC-SLP

Gretchen Bennett.

Gretchen A. Bennett

MA, CCC-SLP

Gretchen A. Bennett

MA, CCC-SLP

Director, UB Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Clinic
Clinical Professor

Certification

  • American Speech-Language Hearing Association Certificate of Clinical Competence – Speech-Language Pathology 
  • NYS Professional License in Speech-Language Pathology

Clinical Area

Child language and autism spectrum disorders across the lifespan.

Awards and Honors

  • Tindle-Shupe Award for clinical excellence, University at Buffalo
  • Mary B. Mann Award for outstanding clinician, University at Buffalo
  • Magna Cum Laude, Ithaca College

Selected Publications or Presentations

  • Project pARTicIP-ATE: ARTistic experience, InterProfessional Education and Access through Expressive Technology, Spring/Summer 2016, Clinical/Student/Artist Liaison and Project Member
  • The Children’s Guild Foundation, Communication Café:  Brewing Your Potential, March 2016 ($9,400) Funding received for a joint project with Buffalo Hearing and Speech Center for a social language skills group for teens.   Pilot program was completed summer 2015 at the UB Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic.  The grant funded support for the program at our clinic from July 2016-June 2017.  BHSC was the applicant. 
  • Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism, Communication Café:  Brewing Your Potential, December 2015 ($9,400) Funding received for a joint project with Buffalo Hearing and Speech Center for a social language skills group for teens.  Pilot program was completed summer 2015 at the UB Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic.  The grant funded space for the program, supervisory release time, and program materials for the program at our clinic from July 2016-June 2017.  BHSC was the applicant. 
  • The Peter and Elizabeth Tower Foundation, SAS Training Program, January 2013-2015 ($135,000)  Primary Investigator. Two year grant focuses on best practices for the improved development of social-emotional and social-pragmatic language in children with Asperger’s, high- functioning autism or characteristics of the two. 
  • Clinical Internship at Minds and Hearts, A Clinic for Asperger’s Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Conditions, Brisbane, Australia, July-August 2011