Speech-Language Pathology
Contact Information
Speech-Language Pathology Program
Kim Sabourin, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-F
Phone: (973) 920-4458
ksabourin@steu.edu
Saint Elizabeth University's Speech-language and Pathology faculty and staff are seasoned professionals who also have a passion for mentoring and educating future speech-language professionals. Our faculty members have experience working with a variety of cultures and many of them are bilingual practitioners who are fluent in languages other than English (e.g., French, Haitian Creole, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, and Spanish). You will get to know each faculty member on a personal level through your class work, clinicals settings, and research opportunities.
Faculty Bios
Kim Sabourin, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-F
Assistant Professor and Program Director
Meet Kim Sabourin, Assistant Professor and Program Director of the Saint Elizabeth University’s MS in Speech-Language Pathology Program. She is a Board-Certified Specialist in Stuttering, Cluttering, and Fluency Disorders and her teaching and research interests are in stuttering. She teaches the Stuttering and Other Fluency Disorders course, and she has mentored graduate student clinicians for many years at the Temple University Speech-Language-Hearing Center, where she was the Director of the Speak Now Camp for adolescents who stutter since its inception in 2014. She will continue to supervise graduate students in the Saint Elizabeth University summer camp program for children who stutter. Ms. Sabourin received her MA from the University of Maryland and her BA at Pennsylvania State University. Before joining Saint Elizabeth University, she served as a faculty member at Temple University and the University of Maryland. She is also currently serving as a board member of the American Board of Stuttering, Cluttering, and Fluency Disorders (ABSCF).
Rebecca Azevedo, MA, CCC-SLP
Director of Clinical Education
P: (973) 920-4315 | E: razevedo@steu.edu
Rebecca Azevedo is a bilingual Russian-English speaking speech-language pathologist who has experience supervising and mentoring graduate students in their first year of clinical practicum as well as in the field. She has worked in medical, educational, and out-patient settings with a variety of communication disorders across the lifespan. Her areas of interest and specialized training include pediatric feeding/oral motor disorders, autism, stuttering, language-based communication disorders, childhood apraxia of speech, and articulation/phonological disorders. She has experience integrating clinical knowledge and evidence-based practice for pre-school and school aged children. Rebecca has received specialized training in SOS ®, CAN- EAT ©, Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP), Augmentative Alternative Communication devices (AAC), and sensory-based approaches to behavior.
Siena Sun, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor
P: (973) 920-4456 | E: ssun@steu.edu
Introducing Dr. Siena Sun—a bilingual expert in speech-language pathology and an assistant professor at Saint Elizabeth University. With a rich background in both clinical practice and research, Dr. Sun specializes in linguistics and communication disorders, bringing her expertise to the classroom. She has extensive experience providing speech, language, and feeding therapy to both pediatric and geriatric patients across various settings, including inpatient, outpatient, and early intervention in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Sun's areas of focus include early childhood development, childhood apraxia of speech, autism, feeding and swallowing therapy, and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). She holds specialized certifications in PROMPT, DIR Floortime, TalkTools, and is a certified lactation consultant. Fluent in both Mandarin Chinese and English, Dr. Sun offers bilingual services that empower individuals from diverse backgrounds to reach their fullest potential.
Dr. Sun earned her MA in speech-language pathology from Temple University and her PhD in linguistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Before joining Saint Elizabeth University, she served as an adjunct faculty member and research assistant at Wayne State University (2016–2018) and was a board member of the Asian Pacific Islander Speech-Language-Hearing Caucus (2019–2021).
Isabelle Barriere, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
P: (973) 920-4459 | E: ibarriere@steu.edu
Isabelle Barrière, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in Speech Language Pathology at Saint Elizabeth University. She is a specialist in language acquisition and multilingual development, in culturally, ethnically and linguistically diverse typical and atypical populations. Her projects have focused on children acquiring African American English, British Sign Language, General American English, French, Haitian (Creole), Hebrew, Jamaican Creole/Patwa and English, Kyrgyz, Russian, (Dominican and Mexican) Spanish, Yiddish and have led to the development of assessments adapted to diverse populations. Since 2017, Dr. Barriere has been leading the first NSF-Research Experience for Undergraduate Site focused on the diversity of the tri-state area that supports research by and on members of minorities under-represented in Higher Education, including in Speech Language Pathology.
She has also developed a similar international summer program during which students get hands-on experience in the French Caribbean while investigating language use and acquisition. In 2018 her contribution to our understanding of the language development of young children in Haiti and in the US was recognized by thirteen NYC, NYS and US elected officials and in January 2019 she was made Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Government for her contributions to scholarship and education.