Bonnie Brinton


Bonnie Brinton is a speech language pathologist, a professor at Brigham Young University, and from 1999 to 2009 was dean of the BYU graduate school.
Prior to joining the BYU faculty, Brinton was on the faculty of the University of Kansas and the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
Brinton holds a BA and a PhD from the University of Utah and a master's degree from San Jose State University. Much of her research has been published jointly with her husband Martin Fujiki. Much of their work has been published in either the Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders or the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research. Brinton and Fujiki met while both were Ph.D. students at the University of Utah in speech language pathology. Since their marriage, every major paper they have published has been a joint project. They also managed to jointly move from the University of Nevada to the University of Kansas to BYU. Brinton and Fujiki have also written two books, Coping with Communicative Handicaps: Resources for Practicing Clinicians and Conversational Management with Language-Impaired Children: Pragmatic Assessment and Intervention.
Brinton and Fujiki are both members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They are the parents of two children.

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