Rate My Professor Kaia Feggestad

Kaia Feggestad is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, joining the faculty in 2022. She also serves as Clinic Director for the UWW Center for Communicative Disorders, overseeing graduate student-provided services during fall and spring semesters. These include diagnostic assessments and individualized or small-group speech-language therapy for pediatric clients from 18 months to 18 years, targeting speech sound disorders, language, fluency, social skills, and augmentative communication systems. Additional offerings encompass aphasia treatment focused on socialization and compensatory strategies, voice and communication training for gender-affirming care, and hearing screenings conducted in local schools by graduate students under supervision of licensed speech-language pathologists.

Feggestad holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, along with the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP). She teaches essential clinical courses such as Acquired Disorders Practicum (COMDIS 662), Internship (COMDIS 493), Professional Issues Seminar (COMDIS 710), Field Study (COMDIS 492), and Independent Study (COMDIS 498). In her research, Feggestad co-authored the 2025 publication 'Evaluation of Reminiscence Therapy on Language Outcomes Among People With Dementia' in Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, alongside Cody Marie Busch and Lynn Gilbertson. The study evaluated two eight-week cycles of reminiscence therapy on 11 memory care residents with dementia, revealing that 82% maintained or improved Functional Linguistic Communication Inventory-Second Edition (FLCI-2) scores and correct information unit (CIU) counts in discourse, with significant correlations to Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) cognition measures. Additionally, she secured a Wisconsin Sound Beginnings grant to establish playgroups supporting families of infants and toddlers who are deaf or hard of hearing.