Ronald Gillam

2026 Cazier Professor Lifetime Achievement Award Nominee

Emma Eccles Jones College of Education & Human Services | Speech and Hearing Sciences

Ronald Gillam, PhD, holds the Raymond and Eloise Lillywhite Endowed Chair in Speech-Language Pathology at Utah State University. His research, which has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Education, primarily concerns information processing, the neurobiology of language, language assessment, and language intervention effectiveness for school-age children with developmental language disorders. Dr. Gillam has published eight books, four norm-referenced tests, 121 peer-reviewed articles, and 51 book chapters. He is currently an academic editor for PLOS One, and he has been an associate editor of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, and Topics in Language Disorders. Dr. Gillam has received numerous teaching and research awards including Honors of the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association (ASHA), Distinguished Alumnus at Indiana University, ASHA Fellow, the Haydn Williams Fellow at Curtin University in Western Australia, the Dads Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, the Editor’s Award for the article of highest merit in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (twice) and the Robins Award for the outstanding researcher at Utah State University.