Celeste Roseberry – 2025

Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She is a Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at California State University, Sacramento. Dr. Roseberry is also currently a part-time itinerant speech-language pathologist in San Juan Unified School District where she provides direct services to students ages 3-18. She has worked in educational and medical settings with a wide variety of clients ranging from preschoolers through geriatric patients.
Dr. Roseberry’s primary research interests are in the areas of building early speech and language skills in babies and young children as well as service delivery to culturally and linguistically diverse children with communication disorders. She has over 70 publications, including 17 books, and has made over 700 presentations at the local, state, national, and international levels. Dr. Roseberry is a Fellow of the national American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) and winner of ASHA’s Certificate of Recognition for Special Contributions in Multicultural Affairs. She has received ASHA’s Honors of the Association, one of 7 people in the world to receive the award in 2020. She received the national presidential Daily Point of Light Award for her volunteer work in building literacy skills of children experiencing poverty. She lived in the Philippines as the daughter of Baptist missionaries from ages 6 to 17.