Sandra Levey

Portrait of Dr. Sandra Levey beside a painting of the Tower of Babel

Sandra Levey is Professor Emerita, the City University of New York, Lehman College. Dr. Levey’s research has centered on multilingualism and multiculturalism. Dr. Levey has authored four books and co-authored three books. She has presented at conferences across the globe and received research grants for language studies in Kano, Nigeria and Bratislava, Slovakia.

Dr. Levey was a member of the President’s Diversity Advisory Council at Lehman College of the City University of New York. She was Conference Coordinator of the Seventeenth Stanford Child Language Research Forum in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University in 1985, where researchers across the globe were invited to present papers on multilingual children’s language development. In 2009, she expanded her research to include multicultural differences in noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). In 2022, Dr. Levey was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Mediterranean Journal of Migration at L-Università ta’ Malta.

Dr. Levey is a member of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP) and was deputy chair (2013-2016) and chair (2016-2019) of the Multilingual and Multicultural Affairs Committee of the IALP. Dr. Levey was also associate editor for the Special Issue of the IALP journal Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica in 2019. Dr. Levey was appointed Chair of the Task Force on Underserved and Unserved Populations by the IALP Board in 2020 with the goal to develop projects to serve the needs of these populations by project members across the world.

Education

  • Ph.D., Speech Language Hearing Sciences, The Graduate Center-The City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY
  • M.A., Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
  • B.A. and M.A., Speech-Language Pathology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Honors

  • Certificate of Recognition for Special Contributions in Multicultural Affairs of the American Speech Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
  • Certificate of Appreciation for the role of Chair of the Task Force on Underserved and Unserved Populations by International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP)
  • Board Recognized Specialist in Child Language by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Council for Clinical Specialty.

Memberships

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)
  • Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Honor Society
  • The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association