Primary Job Title Co-Founder & Chief Academic Officer Primary Organization 
Foundations in Learning
Location Iowa City, Iowa, United States Regions Midwestern US Gender Female
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Carolyn Brown, Ph.D. received her B.S. (1976) and M.S. (1977) degrees in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Eastern New Mexico University. She then studied at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, where she earned her Ph.D. (1981) in the same field. Dr. Brown’s areas of specialization are Child Development, Language Acquisition, and Reading.
As a research scientist at the University of Iowa’s Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Clinic, Dr. Brown developed tools and evaluated strategies that optimize language and literacy development for individuals. Her early work was focused on individual case studies, which incorporated instructional practices and technology. While developing instructional processes and technological applications that would facilitate this process for individual children, Dr. Brown’s work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, Department of Education (DOE), and the State of Iowa.
