Faculty Emeriti

I joined the DSHS faculty in 1986 as a visiting assistant professor while finishing my dissertation. In 1987, I was fortunate enough to be selected to fill the position full-time. Currently, I am a professor, mother, wife, sister, faculty advisor for the student Autism Speaks U chapter at UNC-CH, and active in my neighborhood association. I am an avid reader, who loves the beach and the mountains and so am very happy to live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina which is mid-way between the mountains and the beaches. I encourage you to visit (or better yet live) here in this Tar Heel side of heaven. Life is very good here.

Brenda Everett Mitchell is a recently retired Associate Professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences as well as Associate Chair of the Department of Health Sciences Office of Student Services and AHEC Operations at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.  

As I reflect on my time at UNC as an Associate Professor and administrator, I am grateful for the opportunity to engage with so many awesome individuals. Mentoring is in my DNA so I will always appreciate the growth and development of others through teaching, mentoring, and community service.  

Most recently, I’ve endeavored to reach a younger audience by writing children’s books featuring various health conditions. My books aim to help children understand the importance of treating others respectfully and celebrating differences. 

Dr. Mundy joined the faculty of the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences in 1994 after working on the Carolina Otitis Media Project for four years at The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center (FPG). She continues to see clients clinically at the Hearing and Communication Center. She is the coordinator of AuD studies, overseeing the academic component of the audiology program.

Jackson Roush, PhD, is Professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences and Section Head for Audiology at the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD). With funding from the U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau and from the US Department of Education, he directs two training grants designed to prepare graduate students in audiology and speech-language pathology to work with children who are deaf or hard of hearing with autism and other developmental disabilities.

Dr. Roush has been an audiologist for 40 years and has published and presented extensively on a variety of topics related to newborn hearing screening, diagnosis, and intervention for children who are deaf or hard of hearing including those with co-occurring conditions.  He is actively involved in several state and national organizations committed to improving early identification of hearing loss, and he currently serves as Co-Chair of the EHDI Advisory Board for North Carolina.

Dr. Roush is an ASHA Fellow, a Fellow of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, a 2007 recipient of the Presidential Award from the American Academy of Audiology, and a 2019 recipient of the CIDD Impact Award for outstanding contributions in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities.