Meet the experts

Robert (Bob) McKinney, MA, CCC-SLP is the author of “Here’s How to Do Accent Modification” published by Plural Publishing in 2019. He holds MAs in Communicative Disorders, International Relations, and Education. Bob speaks six languages and has worked with clients from over eighty countries. He currently works with predominantly bilingual students as the lead SLP at the Sweetwater Union High School District. At San Diego State University, he teaches phonetics and supervises graduate students in the Accent and Communication Training Program. He has served as the president of the Corporate Speech Pathology Network (CORSPAN) and on the board of directors of the California Speech-Language-Hearing Association (CSHA).

Carolyn (Carney) Sotto PhD, is a Professor and Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at the University of Cincinnati. She teaches graduate and undergraduate students in the areas of assessment, clinical processes, speech sound disorders, phonetics, child language disorders & literacy and each course incorporates diversity, equity and inclusion education and topics. She teaches to on-campus students and online students in New York, Israel, Rural Ohio, Indiana & Kentucky. Carney was awarded Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 2018, was President of the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association (OSLHA) and awarded both Fellow and Honors of the Association of OSLHA.  She is faculty advisor for UC NSSLHA student organization chapter, which was awarded National Chapter of the Year Honors 3 times in the past 10 years.  She is also faculty advisor and co-founder of the student organization, Multicultural concerns in CSD (MC²).

Angela Sterling-Orth, MS, CCC-SLP, is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (UWEC) in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Communication Disorders from UWEC. She spent her first years in the field working in Wisconsin public schools, specializing in work with early childhood, early elementary, and middle school populations. Following her years in the schools, she spent four years in product development at Thinking Publications, a publishing company specializing in products designed for speech-language pathologists. She has spent the past 15 years at UWEC supervising in the clinic, teaching graduate-level coursework (grad essentials and school methods), and teaching undergraduate coursework in language disorders, aural rehabilitation, fluency disorders, and phonological disorders. She specializes in serving individuals who stutter, preschoolers with phonological disorders, providing school-based SLP services, using innovative technologies for instruction and service delivery, and providing effective clinical supervision.