Joshuaa Allison-Burbank

Joshuaa D. Allison-Burbank, PhD, CCC-SLP, CPH is Diné and Acoma Pueblo. His clans are Tlogi, Parrot Clan (Acoma), Toahani, and Yellow Corn (Acoma). Joshuaa is a speech-language pathologist at Northern Navajo Medical Center in Tsé Bitʼaʼí, Navajo Nation. (Shiprock, NM) and Research Project Coordinator for the Culturally Responsive Early Literacy Instruction: American Indian/Alaska Native at the University of Kansas. He also provides mentoring and clinical supervision to trainees in the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities interdisciplinary training program at the University of Kansas Medical Center. His clinical and research interests include community assessment and capacity building, parent coaching, culturally responsive teaching practices, and prevention of developmental delay in American Indian children. Joshuaa is a lecturer for the KU Speech-Language-Hearing Department and holds an adjunct position in the Communication Sciences and Disorders program at the University of Vermont. Joshuaa has held several leadership positions recently including vice chair of the Multi-Cultural Committee (MCC) within the Association of University Centers on Disabilities and co-chair of the Native American Caucus within the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).