Meet the team

Dr. Kyounghwa Joy Kwon is a Korean-English speech language pathologist. She has always been amazed and intrigued by the natural human language capability. She attended University of Maryland at College Park as a Ph.D student in Linguistics with the Rotary International Scholarship in 1999.  However, she wanted to study a more practical field related to linguistics and finished her linguistics program with a Master degree. In 2001, Dr. Kwon entered the Ph.D program in Speech Language Pathology at the University of Memphis with a full scholarship and finished her clinical training by earning a Master degree while earning her Ph.D. in 2010 in Speech Language Pathology. With her previous studies in three language related Master programs and her Ph.D training, Dr. Kwon is very knowledgeable in speech/language development including bilingual development. She was  involved in several research related to ASD when she was in the Ph.D program and is very passionate with treating and researching speech and language with children with ASD.