Danra Kazenski

Danra Kazenski serves as a Clinical Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Vermont's College of Nursing and Health Sciences, specializing in stuttering research and clinical practice where she teaches diagnostic and treatment methodologies to graduate students.

Her academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Vermont
• M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Vermont
• B.A. from Dartmouth College

Professor Kazenski's research program integrates clinical supervision, implementation science, and neuroscience of stuttering, with particular emphasis on the Lidcombe Program for preschoolers, emotional aspects of communication disorders, and fNIRS brain imaging studies of speech lateralization. Her work bridges laboratory research with community-based stuttering support groups.

Publications from 2014-2015 reveal consistent focus on stuttering intervention efficacy, examining treatment duration, long-term outcomes, child language development impacts, and social-communicative challenges in preschool populations. These studies demonstrate methodological diversity spanning clinical trials, neuroimaging, and qualitative support group analyses.

She actively supervises graduate clinicians in diagnostic and therapeutic techniques while co-leading three National Stuttering Association support groups at UVM, creating integrated pathways from research to clinical practice and community engagement for Vermonters who stutter.