Associate Professor
Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences

Email

Preferred: peitzu.tsai@sjsu.edu

Telephone

Preferred: (408) 924-3733

Education

Ph.D., Hearing & Speech Sciences, University of Maryland - College Park

M.A., Hearing & Speech Sciences, University of Maryland - College Park

B.A., English, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Licenses and Certificates

Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP), American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA)

License, Speech-Language Pathology, State of California

Bio

Pei-Tzu Tsai, a scholar and educator in speech-language pathology, is particularly interested in stuttering, gender diverse voice and communication, and cultural-linguistic diversity. She teaches courses in fluency, voice and motor speech disorders. Her research focuses on stuttering, voice and gender, treatment effects, diversity, and clinical education. She is the clinical educator of the specialty clinic dedicated to stuttering and transgender voice services at the Kay Armstead Center for Communication Disorders. She works with people of all ages to find their voices, to express and communicate freely.

When she is not working, she enjoys spending quality time with her family, hiking, traveling and discovering the little yet important things in life.