Jena McDaniel, PhD, CCC-SLP is an assistant professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She earned her PhD from the Vanderbilt University and then completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Kansas. Dr. McDaniel's programmatic research focuses on developing, validating, and implementing highly effective and targeted speech-language intervention services for children. She strives to conduct high-quality research with strong attention to measurement to answer clinically relevant questions, particularly those related to intervention effectiveness and efficiency. Her intervention interests apply to children with language disorders, including deaf and hard of hearing children, children with autism spectrum disorder, and children with other developmental disabilities.