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Rocio S. Norman, PhD CCC-SLP

Associate Professor
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

Dr. Rocio Norman is Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the School of Health Professions at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio and director of the Norman Cognitive-Communication Lab (https://labs.uthscsa.edu/normanr/). Her research centers on improving the lives of individuals with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and dementia through behavioral interventions.

Dr. Norman completed her speech-language pathology training at UT Austin and completed a Clinical Fellowship at the VA Polytrauma Center in San Antonio, Texas. Her experience working with veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated her desire to pursue clinical research addressing cognitive and communication disorders resulting from combat related mTBI. She completed her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was awarded several training grants to complete her PhD, including an NIH Predoctoral Fellowship, an R25 fellowship through the UW Center for Women’s Health Research, an Emma Allen Speech Language Pathology Fellowship and the American Speech-Hearing Association’s New Century Scholar Award.

Dr. Norman has established national and international research collaborations and received competitive funding as PI and site PI from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health. She currently serves as PI on funded research addressing: caregiver needs of older adults with dementia, long-term outcomes of combat-related mTBI and clinical interventions for speech and hearing disorders after traumatic brain injury.

In 2019, Dr. Norman was awarded a Teaching Excellence Award and the George Kudolo Award for Excellence in Research at the School of Health Professions. In 2023 she was selected for the Spectrum Award at the School of Health Professions, an award recognizing all around excellence in research, teaching and service.

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