Geraldine P. Wallach, Ph.D. (Dr. Gerry Wallach) is a Professor Emerita the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, California. She teaches courses in childhood and school-age language disorders, assessment, phonology, and language development.  She has published widely in school-age language disorders including her most recent book with Dr. Alaine Ocampo: Language and Literacy connections: Intervention for school-age children and adolescents (San Diego, CA: Plural Publication).  She is an editor of Handbook of Language and Literacy: Development and Disorders (NY: Guilford Press, 2014). She has also been one of three Americans involved in a teacher training project in Guangzhou, China. She prides herself in being a school-based professional and is committed to issues in education and the expanding role of speech-language pathologists in literacy