Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

  is a Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at California State University, Sacramento.  Dr. Roseberry is also currently a part-time itinerant speech-language pathologist in San Juan Unified School District where she provides direct services to preschool, elementary and high school students.  She has worked in educational and medical settings with a wide variety of clients ranging from preschoolers through geriatric patients.         

Dr. Roseberry’s primary research interests are in the areas of assessment and treatment of multicultural students with communication disorders as well as service delivery to children from low-income backgrounds.  She has over 50 publications, including 17 books, and has made over 600 presentations at the local, state, national, and international levels.  Dr. Roseberry is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and won the national presidential Daily Point of Light Award for her service to children in poverty. She is a Fellow of the California Speech and Hearing Association, and received the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's (ASHA's) Certificate of Recognition for Contributions in Multicultural Affairs.  Dr.  Roseberry was awarded ASHA's Honors of the Association.

She lived in the Philippines as the daughter of Baptist missionaries from ages 6-17.