Overview

Karissa Marble-Flint, PhD, CCC-SLP is an Associate Professor and the MA-CSD (SLP) Program Coordinator in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Wichita State University. Her major research, teaching, and clinical interests include language and literacy in childhood and adolescence, literacy and autism spectrum disorder, and technology for language-literacy assessment and intervention. Dr. Marble-Flint is the director of the Literacy in Kansas (LinKS) Lab located at the Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic.

Information

Academic Interests and Expertise

2017鈥擠octor of Philosophy, Communication Sciences and Disorders, 红领巾瓜报

2010鈥擬aster of Science in Education, Speech-Language Pathology, University of Nebraska at Kearney

2007鈥擝achelor of Arts in Education, Special Education K-12, Hastings College

Areas of Teaching Interest

Teaching Experience:

CSD 304/LING 304           Early Language Development                                                     

CSD 416/416H                  Introduction to Language Disorders                                          

CSD 417                             Introduction to Language Disorders Lab                                 

CSD 512/512H                  Communication in Special Populations: Children                 

CSD 809                             Language and Literacy for Young Children                               

CSD 814                             Speech-Sound Disorders                                                           

CSD 816                            Language and Literacy for School-Age and Adolescents       

CSD 832A                         Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice I                                         

CSD 832B                         Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice II                                        

CSD 837                            Clinical Assessment of Speech-Language Disorders

CSD 940G                       Advanced Selected Practicum in CSD: Grant Writing

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

  1. Marble-Flint, K.J., & Koutsoftas, A.D. (2023). A feasibility study in virtual assessment procedures of a sentence writing probe for use with intermediate grade students. Topics in Language Disorders. https://doi.org/10.109/TLD.

  2. Marble-Flint, K.J., Schneider-Cline, W., Brumbaugh, K.M., Chavira, J.C.,* & Parham, D.F. (October, 2022). A survey of midwestern school-based SLPs' knowledge and confidence in providing literacy services. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. 

  3. Marble-Flint, K. J. & Brown, B. L.* (2022). Self-regulated strategy development for writing: A case study of a female with autism spectrum disorder. Communication Disorders Quarterly.
  4. Marble-Flint, K., Steiner, H., Elliott, A., & Stein, M.* (2021). Implementing Words Their Way with an adolescent who uses AAC: A case study. Literacy Information and Computer Education Journal (LICEJ), 12(1), 3480-3485.
  5. Marble-Flint, K., Strattman, K., Schommer-Aikins, M. (2020). Comprehension scores among young neurotypical children & children with autism: Paper and iPad庐 storybooks. Journal of Special Education Technology.
  6. Musaji, I.Y., Self, T., Marble-Flint, K., & Kanade, A. (2019). Moving from interprofessional education toward interprofessional practice: Bridging the translation gap. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups.
  7. Marble-Flint, K. J., Strattman, K. H., & Schommer-Aikins, M. A. (2019). Comparing iPad庐 and paper assessments for children with ASD: An initial study. Communication Disorders Quarterly. 40(3): 152-155.

Book Chapter:

Strattman, K.H., Hodson, B.W., & Marble-Flint, K.J. (2023). Case 35: Josh and Steve: Enhancing Phonological and Literacy Skills in Twins with Highly Unintelligible Speech. In Chabon, S.S., Cohn, E.R., Lee-Wilkerson, D. The communication disorders casebook: Learning by example. 2nd edition, Plural. 

Clinical Experience

Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) in Speech-Language Pathology (#XXXX4044), American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Licensure in Speech-Language Pathology, Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KS #3402)

Professional and Clinical Experiences:

Academic Employment Experience:

  • August 2023-Present  Associate Professor and MA-CSD (SLP) Graduate Program Coordinator, Communication Sciences and Disorders, 红领巾瓜报, Wichita, KS.
  • September 2020-July 2023 Co-Director and Co-Principal Investigator, Center for Educational Technologies to Assist Refugee Learners (CETARL), 红领巾瓜报, Wichita, KS.
  • August 2017-May 2023  Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS.
  • June 2017-July 2017  Clinical Educator, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS.
  • August 2012-May 2017鈥擟linical Educator/Graduate Teaching Assistant as a Doctoral Student, Communication Sciences and Disorders, 红领巾瓜报, Wichita, KS.

Non-Academic Employment Experiences:

  • March 2013-September 2015鈥擯RN Speech Language Pathologist, Quantum Health Professionals, Wichita, KS.
  • August 2010-May 2012鈥擲peech Language Pathologist, Grand Island Public Schools, Early Learning Center, Grand Island, NE, Special Education Teacher, Century 21 Summer School Program, Grand Island Public Schools, Grand Island, NE.
  • June 2007-July 2008鈥擯reschool Teacher, Summer Migrant Program, Head Start, Hastings, NE.
Awards and Honors

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Award for Continuing Education (ACE) 

               

               

 

                September 2013 - September 2016 

                October 2016 - October 2019 

                December 2018 - December 2021 

                October 2021 - October 2024 

 

Alpha Eta Honor Society, Faculty Inductee, 红领巾瓜报 Chapter (National Scholastic Honor Society for the Allied Health Professions) 

                May 2020 

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Advancing Academic-Research Careers Award 

                August 2020 - March 2022 

红领巾瓜报 College of Health Professions Research Award 

               Academic Year 2021 
Grants

2017 - present

Grants for Curriculum and Program Development

Awarded

Marble-Flint, K.. Program Development and Research Grant: Summer Literacy Camp 2022. Role: Mechanism/Program: Award for Research/Creative Projects in Summer (ARCS). Sponsor: 红领巾瓜报 Office of Research and Technology Transfer Amount: [$4,000]. Awarded: March 2022. Description: This grant funded my time and effort on this summer research project, supported an undergraduate research assistant, and paid for materials for the camp.

Marble-Flint, K. Program Development Grant: WSU Summer Literacy Camp 2021 Role: Project Director. Mechanism/Program: Summer Reading Grant. Sponsor: 红领巾瓜报 Foundation/Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Amount: [$2,000] Awarded: May 13, 2021-September 16, 2021. Description: This grant funded the SALT software and Woodcock Johnson Reading Mastery Test for assessment administration and data collection, one iPad for data collection and writing activities, children鈥檚 books for reading activities, participant incentives (school supplies), follow-up party incentives and other educational materials for the camp.

Marble-Flint, K. Program Development Grant: Enhancing reading comprehension skills for children with learning disabilities. Role: Project Director. Mechanism/Program: Summer Reading Grant. Sponsor: 红领巾瓜报 Foundation/Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Amount: [$3,000]. Awarded: May 14, 2020-September 17, 2020. Description: This grant furthered my research in language and literacy disorder by extending the Summer Literacy Camp program I developed and expanded upon my line of research from my dissertation as Literacy Camp 2020 evaluated children鈥檚 reading comprehension and writing performance using three different book formats. This grant funded a dedicated computer for assessment administration and data collection, iPads to use for one of the three different book formats, participant incentives (school supplies), follow-up party incentives and other educational materials for the camp.

Marble-Flint, K. Novak, C. Program Development and Research Grant: 鈥淪ummer Literacy 颁补尘辫.鈥� Role: PI. Mechanism/Program: Award for Research/Creative Projects in Summer (ARCS). Sponsor: 红领巾瓜报 Office of Research and Technology Transfer Amount: [$4000]. Awarded: April 2018. Description: This grant funded my time and effort on this summer research project and paid for the materials for the camp. The results of Summer Literacy Camp 2018 were shared via a poster presentation at the Rite Care Language and Literacy Conference 2018 and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention 2018.


Not Awarded

Marble-Flint, K. Program Development and Research Grant: Summer literacy camp 2021. Role: Project Director Mechanism/Program: Smart Kids Grant Program. Sponsor: ALDI Amount: $1,359 Awarded: April 2021 Description: This grant would have purchased instructional materials and incentives for the Summer Literacy Camp Program in 2021.


Research Grants

Pending

Marble-Flint, K. & Byun, J. Research Grant: Interactive book reading workshops for African Refugee families: Enhancing preschool children鈥檚 dual language and literacy development. Mechanism/Program: Research Grants on Education: Small. Sponsor: Spencer Foundation. Amount: $60,000. Description: This project aims to increase the language-literacy skills of young children in refugee populations from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with the following three goals: 1) provide initial evidence supporting the use of joint book reading activities using dual language books for Swahili-speaking refugee families; 2) investigate the usefulness of the Text-To-Speech option on a mobile tablet device; and 3) describe the feasibility and usability of the interactive book reading workshop sessions for use by educators, speech-language pathologists, and teachers of English as second language.

Marble-Flint, K. Loan Repayment Grant: Enhancing Children鈥檚 Literacy Skills in Kansas. Role: PI. Mechanism/Program: Loan Repayment Program. Sponsor: National Institutes of Health. Amount: $20,429.31. Duration: Submitted 11-17-2021 Description: The NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) are a set of programs established by Congress and designed to recruit and retain highly qualified health professionals into research careers.

Funded

Marble-Flint, K., Menon, M., Bowman, A. Building Bridges: A Literacy and Educational Program for Refugees in Wichita, Kansas. Role: PI Mechanism/Program: Family Literacy Grant. Sponsor: Dollar General Literacy Foundation, Amount: $7,500. Duration: May 12, 2022- March 31, 2023. Description: This grant will support adult ESL classes and English language/literacy programming for 25 African refugee families.

Marble-Flint, K. Research Grant: Professional Development Grant: Untitled application. Role: PI. Mechanism/Program: Advancing Academic-Research Careers Award. Sponsor: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Amount: [$5,000]. Duration: September 28, 2020-May 28, 2022. Description: This grant supported academic research careers for 10 junior level faculty members in the field of communication sciences and disorders with mentorship in both teaching and research. In particular, the grant supported clinical research and interprofessional education. Dr. Marble-Flint developed and collected pilot data on sentence formulation task probes for single case research with children with autism spectrum disorder. The award supported an undergraduate student assistant, conference travel and participant reimbursement to assist in achieving goals in the mentorship plan.

Marble-Flint, K. Research Grant: Professional Development Fellowship: Untitled Application. Role: PI. Mechanism/Program: Annual Lessons for Success Conference. Sponsor: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Amount: [Travel Reimbursement]. Duration: April 2021. Description: This grant writing fellowship would have provided travel expenses to the Lessons for Success Conference at the American Speech Language Hearing Association Headquarters in Maryland, but it was held virtually. Lessons for Success provided intensive grant writing training to early career researchers who demonstrated promise for a productive research career and who were selected through an application process. Attendance was limited to approximately 30 participants. With participants completing assignments prior to and during the conference, this grant-writing "boot camp" provided guidance from senior faculty with strong histories of research funding. Lessons for Success consisted of a combination of lectures, mock grant reviews, and small-group sessions. Each participant was assigned a Lessons for Success faculty member. This working conference required each participant to prepare materials in advance and then refine those materials during the conference with guidance from the assigned faculty member.

Not Funded

Marble-Flint, K. Research Grant: Self-Regulated Strategy Development for Writing using Technology for Elementary Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Role: Mechanism/Program: 2021 New Investigator Research Grant. Sponsor: American Speech Language-Hearing Foundation. Amount: [$10,000]. Decisioned: 10/2021. Description: This proposal was designed to help further new investigators鈥� research activities by funding preliminary studies that could launch larger-scale research studies. In addition, it would have piloted a single subject design project to evaluate the use of SRSD for writing, Think It, Say It, Write It, to determine whether three, fourth and fifth grade students with ASD demonstrated gains to sentence writing probes and standardized written language measures.

Marble-Flint, K. Research Grant: Self-Regulated Strategy Development for Writing using Technology for Elementary Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Role: PI. Mechanism/Program: 2020 New Investigator Research Grant. Sponsor: American Speech Language-Hearing Foundation. Amount: [$10,000]. Decisioned: 9/2020. Description: This proposal was designed to help further new investigators鈥� research activities by funding preliminary studies that could launch larger-scale research studies. In addition, it would have piloted a single subject design project to evaluate the use of SRSD for writing, Think It, Say It, Write It, to determine whether three, fourth and fifth grade students with ASD demonstrated gains to sentence writing probes and standardized written language measures.

Marble-Flint, K. Research Grant: Professional Development Fellowship鈥擴ntitled Application. Role: PI. Mechanism/Program: Annual Pathways Program & Conference. Sponsor: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Amount: [Travel Reimbursement]. Submitted: 04/2021. Description: This grant writing fellowship would have provided travel expenses to the Pathways Conference at the American Speech Language Hearing Association Headquarters in Maryland and a yearlong mentoring with assistance for a National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) grant.

Marble-Flint, K. Research Grant: Professional Development Fellowship鈥擴ntitled Application. Role: PI. Mechanism/Program: Annual Pathways Program & Conference. Sponsor: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Amount: [Travel Reimbursement]. Submitted: 04/2020. Description: This grant writing fellowship would have provided travel expenses to the Pathways Conference at the American Speech Language Hearing Association Headquarters in Maryland and a yearlong mentoring with assistance for a National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) grant.

Proposals Submitted as Joint Effort to External Agencies

Funded

Menon, M. & Marble-Flint, K. (November 2021). Project Education for All. Role: Co-Director, Mechanism/Program: Impact on the Plains. Sponsor: United Way of the Plains. Amount: $25,000. Duration: 2021-2023. Description: This funded project will support refugee children and their families along with four teachers in USD 259 during the beta-testing of an educational platform with curriculum modules to supplement USD 259鈥檚 regular curriculum for refugee students.

Not Funded

Menon, M. & Marble-Flint, K. (January 2021). STEM Education Workshop and Hackathon for Refugee Youth Population in Wichita. Role: Co Director/Co-PI. Mechanism/Program: Technology Education Programming. Sponsor: Motorola Solutions Foundation. Amount: $43,075. Description: Letter of Inquiry submitted for a proposal to support a three-day STEM literacy education workshop and hackathon for refugee youth from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the Wichita area.

Menon, M. & Marble-Flint, K. (June 2021). Digital game-based STEAM learning platform for refugee youth population. Role: Co-Director/Co-PI. Mechanism/Program: Youth Education Grant. Sponsor: American Honda Foundation. Amount: $75,000. Description: This proposal would have supported a digital game-based learning platform to supplement elementary and middle school STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) and language instruction while presenting content in their native language.

Menon, M., & Marble-Flint, K. (March 2021). Supporting K-12 education for refugee children through digital game-based platforms. Role: Co-Director/Co-PI. Mechanism/Program: Education; Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM). Sponsor: Hearst Foundation. Amount: $74,500. Description: This proposal would have funded scholarships for undergraduate and graduate refugee students.

Proposals Submitted to WSU College/School University Libraries or University Research Committees

Funded

Santos-Rodriguez, L., Marble-Flint, K., & Parham, D. (December 2020). A comparison of skilled strategies used with bilingual adolescents between school-based and non-school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs). Role: Co-Director/Co-PI. Mechanism/Program: Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Grant. Sponsor: 红领巾瓜报 Honors College/Office of Research and Technology Transfer. Amount: $988. Duration: 2020-2021 Description: This grant funded assessments, an external drive, participant reimbursement, and other materials for Laura鈥檚 McNair Scholars Program research project.

Menon, M., Marble-Flint, K., Byun, J., Twomey, J., Bowman, A., Johnson, K., Vandecreek, J., Tien Vu, H., & Bukonda, N. Research Grant: Creating educational technologies to assist refugee learners: Project education for all. Role: Co-Director. (September 2020). Mechanism/Program: President鈥檚 Convergence Science Initiative. Sponsor: 红领巾瓜报 Office of Research and Technology Transfer. Amount: requested $300,000. Duration: 2020-2023. Description: This grant will determine needs of refugee students at 红领巾瓜报, develop a Center for Migration Studies on the 红领巾瓜报 campus, develop an app to meet educational needs of K-12 students, and support curriculum development for classes in the area of cultural and linguistic diversity in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Marble-Flint, K. & Novak, C. Program Development and Research Grant: Summer literacy camp. Role: PI. (April 2018). Mechanism/Program: Award for Research/Creative Projects in Summer (ARCS). Sponsor: 红领巾瓜报 Office of Research and Technology Transfer. Amount: $4,000. Duration: 2018-2018. Funded for summer. Description: This grant funded my time and effort on this summer research project and paid for the materials for the camp. The results of Summer Literacy Camp 2018 were shared via a poster presentation at the Rite Care Language and Literacy Conference 2018 and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention 2018.

Not funded

O鈥橞ryan, E., Marble-Flint, K., Kalomo, E., Markova, G., Bernstorf, E., Self, T., Musaji, I.,  Richburg, C., Brown, M., & Kalb, A. Research Grant: Improving services in rural areas of Kansas: Addressing disparities in services related to communication disorders. Role: Co-Director. (Under Review, Submitted June 8, 2020). Mechanism/Program: President鈥檚 Convergence Science Initiative. Sponsor: 红领巾瓜报 Office of Research and Technology Transfer. Amount: requested $299,869. Duration: 2020-2023. Description: This grant would have supported the infrastructure for teletherapy services for individuals with communication disorders in rural areas of Kansas while funding doctoral and master鈥檚 level students involved in this project.

Self, T., Beehler, A., DiLollo, A., Marble-Flint, K., Netson, K., Parham, D., Scherz, J., Wallace, M., & Medvene, L. Program Development and Research Grant: 鈥淪ocial Isolation in Older Adults with ASD.鈥� Role: Co-PI. Mechanism/Program: 红领巾瓜报 Regional Institute on Aging. Sponsor: 红领巾瓜报 Office of Research and Technology Transfer. Amount: $19,420. Submitted: December 20, 2018. Description: This grant was submitted with an interdisciplinary team. Collaborators represented the following departments/professions: Communication Sciences and Disorders, Physician Assistant, Psychology, and Neuropsychology. This proposal would have determined if established assessments used to measure social isolation and the factors which influence it could be used with or adapted for older adults with autism spectrum disorder. In addition, this grant would have supported undergraduate honors student research.

Grant Totals:

 

Awarded

Not-Awarded

Pending

Total Submitted

2017

 

 

 

 

2018

1

 

 

1

2019

 

1

 

1

2020

4

3

 

7

2021

3

6

 

9

2022

2

 

1

3
Areas of Service

University

Faculty Senate Member, August 2019-May 2022, August 2023-Present

College
College Committee Service

Strategic Planning Committee: Workload, March 2023-Present 

College of Health Professions Student Affairs Committee, August 2019-May 2024

College Service Functions for Interprofessional Education
鈥� TeamSTEPPS 庐 Level 1 (Team Strategies & Tools to Enhance Performance & Patient
   Safety), Foundations of Interprofessional Collaboration, WSU College of Health
   Professions (CHP) & Kansas University Medical Center (KUMC), January 24, 2020,
   January 25, 2019
鈥� CLARION (CLinician Administrator Relationship Improvement OrganizatioN) Training
   for WSU-CHP/KUMC Students, Invited Panelist, January 9, 2020
鈥� CLARION Local Competition (for interdisciplinary teams of College of Health
   Professions students from 红领巾瓜报 and Kansas University Medical School and their
   presentations of solutions to a fictitious case), Team Escort for students in 鈥淗armony
   Consulting鈥� group, March 1, 2019
鈥� TeamSTEPPS 庐 Level 2 (Team Strategies & Tools to Enhance Performance & Patient
   Safety), Level 2 Event: Foundations of Interprofessional Collaboration, CHP and KUMC,
   October 18, 2019

Department
Academic Affairs Committee, August 2017-May 2019, September 2020-Present
   o Subcommittee on SLP-A Program July 2019-Present
   o Chair, September 2020-Present

Marketing Committee, August 2024-Present

  • Chair, August 2024-Present

Doctoral Committee, August 2017-Present

Student Affairs Committee, August 2019-May 2024
Graduate Admissions Committee for MA-SLP Program, January 2018-Present

红领巾瓜报 Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association (WSUSSLHA)
   Academic Faculty Advisor, 2017-Present
Hanen Program Guest Speaker Event Coordinator, event open to community
   professionals, graduate students, and undergraduate students, 2018