Corey Cassidy, PhD CCC-SLP is Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Director of the Early Childhood Enrichment Center, at Radford University. Since joining Radford University in 2007, Corey has also served as Associate Dean of the Waldron College of Health and Human Services, Founding Director of the Center for Interprofessional Education and Practice, and Executive Director of the Highlander Success Center. She holds a secondary appointment as Professor in the Department of Health Systems and Implementation Science at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. Corey earned her bachelor’s degree at James Madison University; master’s degree at Appalachian State University; and doctoral degree from Touro University International. She has been a licensed speech-language pathologist and provided services to young children and their families for more than 28 years in multiple states across the country. Corey has worked in higher education for more than two decades, teaching, mentoring students, and sharing her scholarship in the areas of early speech, language, and communication development and disorders, the relationship between music therapy and speech-language pathology with young children and their families, and interprofessional education, collaboration, and leadership across the healthcare, human services, and higher education arenas. At the national level, she has served the profession as a coordinating committee member of ASHA’s Special Interest Group 11: Supervision and Administration. Corey is the author of the chapter addressing service delivery in early intervention in multiple editions of the M. Hudson & M. DeRuiter (Eds.) textbook: Professional Issues in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (2012, 2019, 2023) and is the author of the textbook, Speech-Language Pathology and Early Intervention: From Theory to Evidence-Based Practice (2025).  She lives in Radford, Virginia with her husband and two young children.