Pamela Rollins

M.S., CCC-SLP, Ed.D.

  
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The Early Services for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Early Services is committed to the early diagnosis and intervention of children ages 2-5 with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Our programs are family-centered, and caregiver support is based on families' individual priorities. Our Services include the Early Communication, Language, and Social Skills (CLASS) preschool; Early Communication, Language and Social Skills (CLASS) individual speech/language therapy; and Early Communication Language and Social Skills (CLASS) communication assessments.

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Biography

Pam Rollins, M.S., CCC-SLP, Ed.D., is the founder and director of the Early Services for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Dr. Rollins is an Associate Professor in the Communication Disorders program within the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at UTD/Callier Center for Communication Disorders. She did her clinical fellowship at Brown University's Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Barry Prizant. She went on to receive an Ed.D. in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1994. In 1995, Dr. Rollins was the recipient of the American Speech Language and Hearing Foundation's First Investigators award to study the relationship between early pragmatic accomplishments and vocabulary development in children with autism (Rollins, 1999). She was the 2004-2005 Callier Scholar and teaches courses on the early assessment and intervention with children on the autism spectrum. She was appointed to the Texas Council on Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders in Spring 2008.

 
 

 

Dr. Rollins' Research

Dr. Rollins' research focuses on the association among emotional regulation, early social-communicative skills and the acquisition of joint attention and language in typically developing children and children with autism. Her research lends empirical support to social-pragmatic theories of language as well as social-pragmatic intervention models for children with autism (Rollins & Snow, 1998; Rollins, 1999; Rollins, 2003; Trautman & Rollins, 2006; Greenwald & Rollins, 2008).