Gary E. Martin

Dr. Martin joined St. John’s University in 2014 and is based on the Staten Island campus. He is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD), and a nationally certified speech-language pathologist. In addition, he has served as Chair of the Task Force on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in CSD since 2020, and faculty advisor to the St. John’s University Staten Island chapter of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association since 2015. Before joining the faculty at St. John’s University, Dr. Martin was a Scientist (promoted from Investigator in 2013) at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences at UNC (non-tenure track).

Dr. Martin’s research focuses on speech and language development of children with fragile X syndrome (FXS), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and Down syndrome with a particular emphasis on pragmatic language, prosody, and the overlap of FXS and ASD. Dr. Martin has first-authored or co-authored over 35 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 100 national or international conference presentations.

He is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), and American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD).