Rate My Professor Dahye Choi

Dahye Choi, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is an Associate Professor of Speech-Language Pathology in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at the University of South Alabama, where she has served since August 2021 after six years as Assistant Professor from 2015 to 2021. She directs the USA Developmental Stuttering Laboratory, which investigates the contributions of emotion and language to stuttering and the mechanisms by which emotional and linguistic processes influence stuttering. Choi earned her Ph.D. in Hearing and Speech Sciences from Vanderbilt University, M.A. in Speech Language Pathology from Ewha Womans University, and B.A. in English Language and Literature from Ewha Womans University. Her early career included clinical positions as a speech-language pathologist in South Korea at the Children’s Center for Developmental Support, Dongsan Hearing and Speech Research Center, and Chorok Sori private clinic, as well as part-time instructing roles at Woosong University and Sookmyung Women’s University. She completed her Clinical Fellowship Year as a speech-language pathologist at the Pediatric Speech-Language Pathology Clinic of Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center and served as a graduate research assistant on the NIH/NIDCD-funded Developmental Stuttering Project at Vanderbilt University.

Choi's research focuses on developmental stuttering, temperament and emotion in childhood stuttering, behavioral inhibition, family history of stuttering, speech-language abilities, attitudes toward stuttering, and fluency disorders. Her peer-reviewed publications include "Behavioral inhibition and childhood stuttering" (Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2013), "Temperament, emotion, and childhood stuttering" (Seminars in Speech and Language, 2014), "Emotional diathesis, emotional stress and childhood stuttering" (Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016), "Young children’s family history of stuttering and their articulation, language and attentional abilities: An exploratory study" (Journal of Communication Disorders, 2018), and "Young children’s temperament and their emerging prejudice against stuttering" (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2023). She has received the College of Allied Health Faculty Award for Excellence in Research (2019), the 2021 College of Allied Health Faculty/Staff Award for Research, Top Professor awards from the Sally Steadman Aalea Chapter of the Mortar Board Honor Society (2019, 2021), Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and Graduate Student Travel Awards, the Malcolm Fraser Fellowship (2009-2014), and Paradise Welfare Scholarship. Choi serves as Associate Editor for Speech, Language and Hearing, is a member of the Honor Society of Alpha Eta, and has contributed to committees such as the General Education Committee.