Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology: Voices, Collected Essays on Language, Laughter, and Life

Dr. LaPointe currently holds the appointment of an endowed Chair, the Francis Eppes Professor of Communication Science and Disorders at Florida State University. He also has faculty appointments in the Program of Neuroscience and the College of Medicine at this university and is Co-Director of the Neurolinguistic-Neurocognitive Research Center at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. Dr. LaPointe has published five books, 40 book chapters and more than ninety scientific papers in journals and has presented more than four hundred invited lectures in Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. Dr. LaPointe has been studying the disorders of the brain as a clinician, researcher and teacher for many years, advocating the importance of therapy for those with communication disorders resulting from various causes. His cross-institutional, cooperative research in the 1980's helped establish the effectiveness of therapy for aphasia and stroke victims. Dr. LaPointe holds a doctorate degree.