Lauren Siemers is a speech-language pathologist who joined RMU in August 2024 as an Assistant Clinical Professor in M.S. MedSLP program. She received her Master of Speech-Language Pathology degree from Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. Most recently, Lauren worked as a clinical educator at the University of Central Missouri. Lauren has clinical experience across the lifespan in public elementary schools and a rural hospital providing a mixture of inpatient and outpatient speech, language, and swallowing services to both pediatric and adult patients. Lauren is passionate about collaboration between educators and clinicians to provide equity and access to services for students in need. Lauren’s research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning in health professions education, interprofessional education and practice between educators and clinical service providers, speech sound disorders, parent training for early intervention and early implementation of AAC, and the benefits of immersive language instruction through the use of mentor sentences and texts.
