Rate My Professor Sean Redmond

Sean Redmond, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Utah, where he also directs the Child Language Lab, serves as the Departmental Director of Undergraduate Studies, and acts as Graduate Director for the PhD Program. He earned his B.A. in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1990, his M.A. in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Kansas in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Child Language from the University of Kansas in 1997. A Board Certified Specialist in Child Language (BCS-CL) and Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (F-ASHA), Dr. Redmond has received the University of Utah College of Health Senior Researcher Award in 2016 and the Departmental Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2017.

Dr. Redmond's research specializes in language development, assessment, and intervention, with emphasis on developmental language disorders (DLD), specific language impairment (SLI), and their co-occurrence with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and socioemotional difficulties across clinical populations such as children with cerebral palsy, hearing impairment, and perinatal HIV exposure. His work has been funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) through grants including R01 DC017153 (2018-2024) investigating the developmental course of language impairments and attention deficits in children ages 7-12, R01 DC011023 on the co-occurrence of language and attention difficulties in kindergarten to third grade, and R03 DC008382 on psycholinguistic and socioemotional profiling. Key publications include "Diagnostic Accuracy of Sentence Recall and Past Tense Measures for Identifying Children's Language Impairments" (2019, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research), "Markers, Models, and Measurement Error: Exploring the Links Between Attention Deficits and Language Impairments" (2016, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research), "Peer Victimization Among Students With Specific Language Impairment" (2011, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry), and contributions to the CATALISE Phase 2 consensus on terminology for problems with language development (2017, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry). With over 70 peer-reviewed publications and more than 2,700 citations, Dr. Redmond has served as associate editor for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research and Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, and presents regularly at national and international conferences. His Redmond Sentence Recall tool supports clinical screening for language impairments.