Jerri Weinstein-Blum

E-mail: jblum@liu.edu

Prior to coming to LIU-Brooklyn, Ms. Blum held the position of Director of The Speech/Language and Learning Center at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, where she had been employed in the Department of Otolaryngology for over 16 years. She has also held positions at the Burke Rehabilitation Center in White Plains, New York and at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center. Ms. Blum's areas of interest include childhood speech and language disorders, voice disorders in children and adults and neurogenic communication disorders. She has a special interest in augmentative and alternative communication and has worked extensively with patients who have ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). She has been a speaker on all of these topics throughout the metropolitan area and has been involved with various research projects in the communication sciences.