Dee Lance
CSD Department Chair
Professor Communication Sciences and Disorders
Dee M. Lance, Ph.D., CCC-SLP/L has worked in the field of Speech-Language Pathology since 1988. Currently, she is a professor and serves as Chair in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). During her time in higher education, she has served as a clinical educator and developed specialty clinics for children with reading difficulties. As a didactic course instructor, she has developed and taught a variety of courses, but her favorite topics are language acquisition and disorders. Her research interests center around reading difficulties in children with language disorders. During her time in higher education, she has directed thirty-four undergraduate and master’s research projects and eight doctoral research projects. In addition, she has collaborated on several research projects on both state and national levels. Since 2006, she has served as an accreditation site visitor for Council on Academic Programs for Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) and a candidacy site visitor for CAA since 2012.