Chelsey Tarazi has a Bachelor’s of Science in Speech and Hearing Science from Arizona State University. There, she received clinical training and coursework in speech and language sciences and audiology. Additionally, she received her certificate and licensure as a Speech Language Pathology Assistant. During her three and a half years at Arizona State University, she conducted research in the areas of child language development and early childhood literacy. She received training experience with adults and children with disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorder and Downs Syndrome, as well as those with neurological disorders. As a Speech Language Pathology Assistant, she worked in schools and juvenile detention centers with children, adolescents and young adults who had Individual Education Plans and intervention needs.
Chelsey is currently earning her doctorate in Combined School Psychology/Counseling Psychology from Northern Arizona University. Within this program, she has received training experiences in school psychology, counseling psychology and neuropsychology. Chelsey has had experience working through a multi-cultural lens while addressing the learning, behavioral and social-emotional needs of children from Preschool to Middle School through psychoeducational evaluations and functional behavioral assessments. Her most recent clinical training experiences have been in the Fall of 2017 and now the Spring of 2018 where she has conducted psychoeducational evaluations for Coconino Community College and NAU students, school-aged students in the Flagstaff area, and neuropsychology evaluations for individuals across the lifespan for issues such as traumatic brain injury, neurodevelopmental disorders and dementia in the Phoenix-Metro area.
Chelsey’s research interests include health disparities for ethnic minority children and adults, bilingual language development and interventions, adolescent self-concept, and gender variance and expression in school age children. Chelsey hopes that the LEND fellowship program will allow her to further expand her clinical experiences and make an impact on maternal and child health communities through research and policy implementation and practice.