Fang-Ling Lu, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Dr. Fang-Ling Lu has nearly 30 years of academic careers in teaching, research, administrative service, clinical work. She is currently the Chair and Graduate Program Director in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at UT Health. Dr. Lu’s clinical expertise and research interests are motor speech disorders, dysphagia, voice disorders, and trach care in adult patients with neurological diseases, structural abnormality, and head and neck cancer.

• Professional Background

  Education

  • 1990 - PhD - Speech-Language Pathology - University of Arizona/Memphis State University
  • 1987 - MS - Speech-Language Pathology - University of South Carolina
  • Speech-Language Pathology - University of South Carolina

  Training

  • 1991 - Postdoctoral Fellowship - Medical Speech Pathology - Neurology Department, Mayo Clinic

  Highlights

  RESEARCH

  1998          1st Award for Scientific Exhibit: Teaching Slides/Laser CDs for Anatomy of Speech and Hearing, ASHA Convention, St. Louis, OH.

  TEACHING 

  2018-2020   Excellence in Teaching Award: School of Health Professions, UT Health San Antonio

  2011            President Council’s Teaching Award ($3,000); University of North Texas 

  1999            Pioneers of Distribution Learning Award; Center for Distribution Learning, University of North Texas   

  Appointments

  • 2017-present - Associate Professor (tenured), Chair, and Graduate Program Director - University of Texas Health- San Antonio, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
  • 1997-2017 - Assistant/Associate Professor (tenured), Graduate Program Director - University of North Texas, Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology
  • 1993-1996 - Assistant Professor - University of Miami School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology

• Instruction & Training

  • 2018-present, Swallowing Disorders, UT Health- San Antonio
  • 2018-present, Motor Speech Disorders, UT Health- San Antonio
  • 1997-2017, Neuromotor Speech Disorders, University of North Texas
  • 1997-2017, Swallowing Disorders, University of North Texas
  • 1997-2017, Voice Disorders, University of North Texas
  • 1997-2017, Head and Neck Cancer, University of North Texas
  • 1997-2017, Tracheostomy Care, University of North Texas
  • 1997-2017, Instrumentation for Speech-language Pathologists , University of North Texas
  • 1997-2017, Anatomy & Physiology of Speech & Hearing, University of North Texas
  • 1997-2017, Neuroanatomy of Speech & Hearing, University of North Texas

• Service

  Department

  • Department chair
  • Director of SLP Graduate Program and Pre-professional Graduate Certificate Program

   

  School

  School of Health Professions

  Faculty Council, Admissions, Curriculum

  School of Dentistry

  Post-Tenure Evaluation Committee

  National Service

  Association Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP): Member, Research, Discovery, and Innovation Committee

• Publications

  • Speech tasks and inter-rater reliability in perceptual voice evaluation
  • Efficacy of intensive phonatory-respiratory treatment (LSVT) for presbyphonia: Two case studies
  • Thyroplasty type I- Short- vs. long-term results
  • The effect of patient factors on response outcomes to Botox treatment of spasmodic dysphonia
  • Cause of hoarseness in elderly patients
  • Vocal evaluation of thyroplasty type I in the treatment of nonparalyzed glottal incompetence
  • Lateral arm microvascular flap in head and neck reconstruction
  • Abnormal soft palate posturing in patients with laryngeal movement disorders
  • Longitudinal evaluation of vocal function following thyroplasty type I in the treatment of unilateral vocal paralysis
  • Vowel production in a prelinguistic child following cochlear implantation

  Abstracts in Peer-Reviewed Journals

  Lu, F., Kao, T.H., Gilmore, A., Gomez, G., & Sun, D. (2019). Prophylactic measures and intervention for post-surgical dysphagia after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 100(12), e216. [doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2019.10.172]

  Lu, F., Kao, T.H., Meaux, V., Thomas, S., Rattan, K., & Sun, D.Y. (2019). Understanding dysphagia following anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.  Dysphagia, 34: 948. [doi: 10.1007/s00455-019-10022-z]

  Matteson, S. & Lu, F. (2009).  High precision frequency analysis of vocal acoustic spectra. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 126(4), 2550.

  Matteson, S. & Lu, F. (2009).  Vocal inharmonicity analysis: A promising approach for acoustic screening for dysphonia.  Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 125(4), 2638.

  Lundy, D.S., Xue, J.W., Casiano, R.R., & Lu, F. (1998).  Thyroplasty type I- Short- vs. long-term results. Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, 119(2), P178.

  Lundy, D.S., Abre-Silva, C., Lu, F., & Casiano, R.R. (1996).  Etiology of hoarseness in elderly patients.  Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, 115(2), 162-163.

  Casiano, R.R., Lu, F., Lundy, D.S., & Goodwin, W.J. (1995).  Thyroplasty type I in irradiated patients. Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, 113(2), P193.

  Civantos, F.J., Armstrong, W., Lu, F., & Burkey, B. (1995). The lateral arm microvascular flap in head and neck reconstruction.  Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, 113(2), P43-256.

  Lu, F., Casiano, R.R., Lundy, D.S., Goodwin, W.J., & Xue, J.W. (May 1995).  Longitudinal evaluation of vocal function following thyroplasty type I in the treatment of unilateral vocal paralysis. Laryngoscope, 105(3), 334.

  Lauter, J.L. & Lu, F. (1987).  Voice onset time variability in stop-consonant productions by bilingual speakers of English and Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 82 (Suppl) 1, S1-128.

  Published Conference Proceedings

  Stephens, M.I., Lu, F., Khavazadeh, L., Kao, K., Kruger, C., Daniloff, R., & Schuckers, G.  (1999). Context sensitivity of normal and lateralized /s/: A developmental study.  In J.J.  Ohala et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 815-817). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

  Stephens, M.I., Lu, F., Khavazadeh, L., Kao, K., & Daniloff, R. (1999).  Fishing for the past: Remnants of early lateralization of /s/.  In J.J. Ohala et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 819-821).  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 

  Lu, F., Casiano, R.R., & Lundy, D.S. (1999).  Intraoperative monitoring for thyroplasty type I. In Ph. Dejonckere & H.F.M. Peters (Eds.), Communication and its Disorders: A Science in Progress [Proceedings of the 24th World Congress of International Association of Logopedics & Phoniatrics] (pp. 336-338). Nijmegen, Netherlands: Nijmegen Univ. Press.

  Lu, F., Daniloff, R.G., Kao, K.T., & Farias, D.R. (1999).  Longitudinal changes in phonatory and articulatory characteristics of speech in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.  In Ph. Dejonckere & H.F.M. Peters (Eds.), Communication and its Disorders: A Science in Progress [Proceedings of the 24th World Congress of International Association of Logopedics & Phoniatrics] (pp. 613-616).  Nijmegen, Netherlands: Nijmegen Univ. Press.

  Monograph

  J.L. Lauter, & Lu, F. (1987).  A Spectrographic Dictionary in Mandarin Chinese.  Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

• Clinical

  • Evaluation of swallowing, motor speech, and voice disorders using technological instruments, including flexible endoscopic examination of swallowing (FEES), modified barium swallowing exam (MBS), videostrobolaryngoscopy, nasometry, acoustical analysis (MDVP, RealTime Pitch, Motor Speech Profile, etc.), and spirometry. 
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  • Management of swallowing, motor speech, and voice disorders using evidence-based treatment approaches, such as MDTP®, LSVT-LOUD®, myofascial release, and conventional treatment techniques. 
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  • Post-laryngectomy speech rehabilitation, including artificial larynx, esophageal speech, and tracheoesophageal puncture (TEP).

  Board Certifications

  • 2017 - McNeil Dysphagia Therapy Program (NDTP)
  • 2015 - Myofascial release in dysphagia management
  • 2014 - Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT-LOUD)
  • 2011 - Surface EMG Biofeedback to Treat Swallowing Disorders
  • 2005 - VitalStim Therapy
  • 1993 - Flexible Endoscopic Examination of Swallowing (FEES)
  • 1993 - Videofluoroscopic Swallowing Study (VFSS)
  • 1991 - Certificate of Clinical Competence for Speech-Language Pathology, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association