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Linda M.L. Khan, MS, CCC-SLP

Linda Khan earned her Master’s Degree in 1976 from Syracuse University. She participated in various research projects while a student, and continued her interest in research after graduation. She began her career as a public school speech therapist in the rural town of Marcellus, New York, where she was responsible for K through 12th grade during the initial years of PL94-142. During her four years there, she developed and implemented preschool screening programs (Childfind) and worked on caseload issues. When she left, she was replaced by three full-time speech/language pathologists with reasonable caseloads. It was with the unintelligible, language-impaired children on her caseload in Marcellus that her interest in phonological disorders began.

Since then, Khan has held SLP positions in public schools and hospitals, and has been a faculty member/clinical supervisor at several universities. While working as an SLP in the Pediatric Department at the University of Texas Medical Branch - Galveston, she developed and field-tested several phonological test protocols. Her goal was to make available an efficient phonological assessment to those working in the schools, or in other settings in which there was insufficient time to complete a lengthy phonological analysis for a given child. She collaborated with her colleague, Nancy Lewis (then doing her CFY), and the result of their work was the publication in 1986 of the Khan-Lewis Phonological Analysis (AGS Publishing). They used the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation for the word probes and collected standardization data for the development of norms down to age 2;0 for both the KLPA and the GFTA.

Khan has published journal articles on phonology and language and has written two self-instructional texts on phonological analysis (College-Hill Press). Her professional presentations have centered on phonological assessment and intervention and its relationship to language development.

Since 1992, she has lived overseas and has continued to work in the area of phonology. Her primary focus has been with 0-to-3 year olds and their communication development. However, she has also taught curricular English classes to education majors at Taegu (S. Korea) National Education University. She currently resides in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and is working with unintelligible preschoolers in addition to her regular job as SLP at the Saudi American International School. She is working on collaborating with the Research and Development section of the Jeddah Institute for Speech and Hearing as they develop local norms for articulation and phonology.

Over the years, Khan has been awarded the CEC Certificate of Appreciation, ASHA Certificate of Achievement, Department of the Army Official Commendation, and has been named a “Notable Woman of Texas.” She was Assistant to the Editor of JCCD, Advisory Board Member for the Jersig Center for Communication Disorders, and Executive Board Member of the San Antonio Speech-Language-Hearing Association. In addition, she served as Secretary and later President of the Overseas (Europe) Association of Communication Sciences (OSACS). She has received consecutive continuing education awards from ASHA since 1983 and is licensed in Texas.

Authors Nancy Lewis, Linda Kahn, and Ron Goldman join AGS president John Yackel in 1986 to celebrate the release of the original KLPA