Dr. Jennifer Lundine is an Associate Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at The Ohio State University and is the director of the Childhood Cognition, Communication, and Brain Injury Lab (CABI Lab) . Jenny completed both her B.A. in Speech and Hearing Science and M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology from The Ohio State University. She then worked as a speech-language pathologist on the rehabilitation unit and in acute care at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus for more than a decade before returning to OSU for her doctoral work. She graduated with her Ph.D. in Speech & Hearing Science in 2016, and continued her work at Nationwide Children’s Hospital as the Director of Research for the Department of Speech Pathology and the Inpatient Rehabilitation Program. She joined the faculty at OSU in the fall of 2017, and she remains an affiliated clinical researcher at Nationwide Children’s.

Dr. Lundine teaches courses in Cognitive-Communication Disorders, Pediatric Medical Speech-Language Pathology, and Language Acquisition. Her clinical, teaching, and research interests include impairments associated with complex pediatric medical diagnoses, especially cognitive-communication disorders associated with acquired brain injury (ABI). Specifically, her research focuses on improving gaps in access to and utilization of services designed to support children with ABI and identifying specific approaches that would improve assessment and treatment practices following pediatric ABI. Her work is supported by foundation, state, and federal grants. Dr. Lundine was the 2022 recipient of the Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award, the only teaching award at OSU that is completely administered by students in the College of Arts & Sciences.