CHRIS MARVIN, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders
202B Barkley Center
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0732
(402) 472-5483

Biography

Dr. Marvin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders at UNL. She received her BS in Elementary Education and Speech Pathology and MA in Speech-Language Pathology at Eastern Michigan University and her PhD in Early Childhood Special Education at University of Oregon.

Dr. Marvin was the governor-appointed representative from higher education for 3 years on the Nebraska Interagency Coordinating Council for Early Intervention (NICC), the chair of the Personnel Development and Standards Task Force for NICC and the co-director of Nebraska's project for Supporting Change and Reform in Interdisciplinary Preservice Training (SCRIPT) in Early Intervention. She was also the Director of the UNL SCRIPT Project for Graduate-Level Personnel Preparation in Family-Centered Services and Medically Fragile Infants and a member of the UNL Faculty for the UNL SCRIPT Project for Development of the UNL Unified Early Childhood program based in the College of Education and Human Sciences. She currently is the Director of the Nebraska and Mountain-Prairie Professional Upgrade Projects which aim to educate deaf educators and early childhood teachers about the needs and recommended practices for serving children under age 5 who are deaf or hand of hearing and their families. She is also a Key Investigator on the Getting Ready research project, Parent Engagement and Child Learning: Birth to Age Five.

Dr. Marvin has received a number of university and college awards for her teaching and is a member of the University of Nebraska Academy of Distinguished Teachers. She teaches graduate courses on home-visiting and infant intervention services, family-centered services, consultation and co-teaching in preschool classrooms for early childhood special education (ECSE) populations, ECSE issues and research, and coordinates all practicum experiences for students in the ECSE graduate program.

Dr. Marvin's research includes the study of contextual factors that influence young children's communication patterns at home and school, the home literacy experiences of preschool children who are at-risk or disabled, and the structure and design of home-visiting sessions. Dr. Marvin is an ASHA-certified and NDT-trained Speech-Language Pathologist and has provided oral-motor, feeding and language intervention services to infants, toddlers and preschool children and their families while in private practice or as a staff member with the pediatric unit of a large rehabilitation center. Dr. Marvin has been on faculty at the University of New Mexico, University of Oregon and University of Wisconsin prior to joining the faculty at UNL in 1988.

Research Projects

Personnel Preparation Projects: