Geoffrey Coalson

Geoffrey Coalson, PhD, CCC-SLP, is the Associate Director of Grant and Research Development at the Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education and Research at the University of Texas at Austin.  Prior to this role, Dr. Coalson served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Louisiana State University. Dr. Coalson received a BS in Communication Sciences and Disorders and BA in Psychology from UT-Austin, and his Master’s in Speech-Language Pathology from Vanderbilt University. After a clinical fellowship in Houston, Texas, he returned to UT-Austin to complete his Ph.D. in Speech-Language Pathology.  His research has focused on cognitive and linguistic processing in people who stutter, as well as clinical efficacy of stuttering treatment.  As a person who stutters, Dr. Coalson proudly endorses treatment approaches that target what many children who stutter believe they can never fully attain: to speak, to dream, and to live unapologetically.