Dr. Adrienne Bratcher

Dr. Bratcher is presently an Assistant Professor at Eastern New Mexico University as well as Program Director and Graduate Coordinator for the CDIS Department. Her educational history includes completion of a B.S. degree in Communication Disorders from Eastern New Mexico University in 1997, an M.S. in Communication Disorders from ENMU in 2000, and the SLP.D. from Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL in December of 2005.

Dr. Bratcher has been employed by Eastern New Mexico University in Portales from August, 2002 to present. Her duties have included serving as Clinical Director in the Department of Communicative Disorders (2002 to 2008) as well as teaching undergraduate courses in anatomy/physiology, language disorders, and speech-language development. Her graduate teaching load includes courses in oral-motor disorders, TBI, and dysphagia. Her clinical experience includes extensive supervision of graduate/undergraduate students in addition to direct provision of services in the university speech-language-hearing center, skilled nursing facilities, and planning, administering, and coordinating speech-language pathology services in elementary and junior high schools in the Clovis-Portales and surrounding areas. Dr. Bratcher has further served as coordinator of bilingual testing procedures in speech-language pathology, as well as being employed as a contract speech-language pathologist for evaluation and diagnosis of speech and language skills as related to medical, social, educational and psychological factors for patients in birth to three populations.

Dr. Bratcher's professional research interests have included a comparison of the inferring abilities/facial expressions and the standardized Test of Pragmatic Skills to measure social deficiencies, the effectiveness of the Earobic Literacy Launch Program in the remediation of phonological awareness, and various other literacy studies and their impact on childhood speech and language development. She has further completed research in determining the preferred mode of communication in a hearing-impaired child and the comparative analysis of memory in children and adults having mild, moderate, and severe traumatic brain injury. Her most recent project addressed the use of technology in therapeutic settings, in particular, the use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) by speech-language pathologists. Presently, Dr. Bratcher is currently most interested in medical aspects related to speech-language pathology, oral defensiveness, dysphagia, neurogenic disorders, and TBI.

Personally, Dr. Bratcher is married with one daughter and one son. She enjoys spending time with her family 4-wheeling and scuba diving.

Please contact Dr. Bratcher at 575.562.2159 or e-mail to: Adrienne.Bratcher@enmu.edu. Her office hours for the Spring 2008 semester are:

• Tuesdays and Fridays by appointment.
• Thursdays from 8:00–10:30 a.m. and 1:30–2:30 p.m.