Biography

Dr. Andi Toliver-Smith is an Associate Professor at Howard University, and serves as the Program Director for the department. She obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in the field of communication sciences and disorders with an emphasis in cultural and linguistic diversity, along with a secondary interest in audiology from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, her MS in Speech-Language Pathology from "The Mecca" Howard University, and her BS in Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Arkansas Little Rock.  She has worked with a variety of populations with speech and language disorders as well as with Deaf/Hard of Hearing clients who require Aural Rehabilitation. Dr. Toliver-Smith also shares her expertise with the ASHA-PAHO/WHO Guyana Collaboration Project.  Her areas of expertise include: Deaf Culture, Aural Rehabilitation Multicultural Concerns, Culturally Responsive Practice, Accent-Dialect Modification, , Teaching Pedagogy, and Professional Issues. 

She has worked as a professor for the past 9 years and as a speech-language pathologist for 20 years.  As a high-school speech-language pathologist, Dr. Toliver-Smith has worked for Baltimore City Public School System and for Prince George’s County Public School System in suburban Washington, DC).  She is licensed and certified in four states: District of Columbia, Missouri, Arkansas, and Maryland.