Anne Bothe Marcotte, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Professor Emerita, University of Georgia
Instructional Aide, Athens Technical College
Hi! I’m Anne.
I was born in Berkeley, California, in the 1960s, a tidbit of social history that has influenced my life in many ways. I attended college and graduate school in southern California between 1982 and 1995, with a couple years off in the middle to study in Norway and to cross-country ski in Mammoth Lakes, a ski-resort town in the eastern Sierra Nevada. I then settled in and served as a faculty member, program coordinator, and department head in the Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education and in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia for 27 years, from 1995 to 2022.
Since 2023, I have had the genuine pleasure of working half time in the English as a Second Language program at Athens Technical College, a position that allows me the honor of interacting with more than 400 adults per year from around the world in an absolutely wonderful multi-cultural and multi-lingual setting.
I am not, to be clear, one of the many people in our profession who have scholarly expertise in cultural issues or personal identities for speech-language pathology. I have taught about cultural issues since 2005, but other researchers are the true scholars in the areas this website touches on, and I strongly encourage you to find and read their original scholarship.
(Search for Battle’s original 1992 textbook or a later edition, and find her other writing from 2000 and earlier. Read the research published by Bedore, Craig, Oetting, Peña, Restrepo, C. Seymour and H. Seymour, Washington, Yu, and their colleagues. Search at ASHAWire for new research publications about culture, language, identity, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Read the personal information that some scholars are sharing. Read scholarship from other disciplines, too, including in culturally sustaining education, transcultural nursing, and others.)
Think of me as an interpreter, a friendly guide, or the peer-leader of a discussion group. My expertise, such as it is, lies in my abilities to explain the basics, expose learners to the complexities, stay positive, encourage mutual kindness and respect, and help people work together to achieve something greater than themselves.
I should also be clear, here, that my jobs have informed my professional opinions, but I absolutely do not speak for the University of Georgia, for Athens Technical College, or for any of their departments or units. Similarly, parts of this website use and expand on materials provided by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and by their associated Council on Academic Accreditation, but I have no authority at all to speak for either of those entities. The opinions expressed in this website are my own and do not reflect any position held or not held by any other person, institution, or organization.
I am also a slow but committed long-distance runner and a fair-weather flat-water kayaker. My husband and I have eight amazing grown children between us, plus two cats, two turtles, and six small koi.