"I focus on interdisciplinary collaboration with all members of the cleft palate-craniofacial team to ensure that our patients receive the best possible care. During speech evaluations, I spend extra time educating families on the anatomical and physiological differences affecting speech, resonance, and feeding in people who have craniofacial differences, including cleft lip and palate."

Graduate Degree: 

PhD, Communication Sciences and Disorders, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina

Schenck GC, Perry JL, O’Gara MM, Linde AM, Grasseschi MF, Wood RJ, Lacey MS, Fang X (2021). Velopharyngeal muscle morphology in children with unrepaired submucous cleft palate: An imaging study. Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal, 58(3), 313-323.

Schenck GC (2020). Submucous cleft palate: Evaluation and treatment principles for speech-language pathologists. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 5(6), 1482-1491.

Schenck GC, Kollara L, Kuehn DP, Perry JL (2018). Effects of surgical intervention and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy on velopharyngeal structure and function: A case report. Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal, 56(4), 525-533.

Kollara L, Schenck GC, Perry JL, Jaskolka M (2017). Examining a new method to studying velopharyngeal structures in a child with 22q11.2 DS. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(4), 892-896.

Jordan HN, Schenck GC, Ellis C, Rangarathnam B, Fang X, Perry JL (2017). Examining velopharyngeal closure patterns based on anatomic variables. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 28(1), 270-274.

Schenck GC, Perry JL, Fang X (2016). Normative velopharyngeal data in infants: Implications for treatment of cleft palate. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 27(6), 1430-1439.