RaMonda Horton-Ikard joins faculty
Assistant professor said FSU doctoral students, faculty impressed her
Dr. RaMonda Horton-Ikard has joined the College of Communication as an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Disorders.
An assistant professor since 2002 in the Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Dr. Horton-Ikard has done extensive research in language development in children, particularly African-Americans and other minority groups.
"Dr. Horton-Ikard's research and teaching interests will add both breadth and depth to the current faculty's strengths in early intervention and multicultural considerations,” said Dr Juliann Woods, chair of the Department of Communication Disorders. “She is already busy collaborating with department faculty in both research and training."
She earned her Ph.D. in communication disorders in 2002 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, her master’s in communication disorders in 1997 at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., and her bachelor’s in communication in 1995 at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
In addition, she worked as a speech language pathologist in the Durham, N.C., public school system in the 1997-1998 school year, and in the Madison, Wis., metropolitan school district in 1998-1999.
Dr. Horton-Ikard said she was very impressed with both the faculty and the doctoral students when she visited FSU.
“Several of the faculty members are doing research concerned with language, literacy, and the influence of sociocultural variables -- particularly poverty and non-mainstream dialect use,” she said. “I wanted to be in an academic environment where people shared my passion for this area of research.
“In addition, the doctoral students that I had the opportunity to meet with during my visit really solidified the decision,” she added. “Great doctoral students are difficult to come by and the students in the program at FSU were there because they really respected the work of the work of their mentors.”