Holly Storkel

Dr. Holly Storkel joined the faculty in the Speech-Language-Hearing: Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS in 2001, where she currently is a Professor. She previously served as Department Chair (2013-2017) and Associate Chair (2010-2013). Through these roles, she has spearheaded numerous efforts at the department level to improve student learning and student success leading to her department being awarded the University Degree-Level Assessment Award (2016), the CLAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising (2015), and the CTE Departmental Award for Exceptional Teaching and Learning (2008). Dr. Storkel also served as Associate Dean of Academic Innovation and Student Success (2017-2021) in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and as Vice-Provost for Assessment and Program Development (2020-2021). In these roles, she led efforts to improve student learning, refine evaluation of teaching and mentoring, explore innovative methods of course delivery, and advance program assessment.

Dr. Storkel’s research focuses on helping children learn words and sounds so they can succeed in school and life. Her work has been supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NDCD). Her early research focused on understanding why some children learn the sounds and words of their native language so easily while others struggle. Her current research seeks to develop and evaluate treatment approaches to accelerate sound and word learning in children with speech sound disorder and/or developmental language disorder and to use principles of implementation science to bring best practice approaches to real world clinical and community settings. Dr. Storkel conducts efficacy, effectiveness, and implementation science research. She was named Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 2014.

Dr. Storkel teaches courses related to speech and language structure, processing, development and disorders at the undergraduate and graduate level. She also has lead several doctoral seminars related to professional development, manuscript writing, and grant writing.