Danai Fannin

Edited Publications

• Kasambira Fannin, D., Abdelaziz, M.M., Mahendra, N.A., Matthews, J. (2025). Voices unheard: A clarion call for transforming communication disorders and sciences. In F. Khosa, J. Ding, & S. Tiwana (Eds.), Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Healthcare: From Knowledge to Practice. Cambridge, MA: Elsevier.
• Kasambira Fannin, D., Gladfelter, A., & Scott, R.D. (2026). Trauma informed care and neurodiversity: Identity, quality of life, and long-term outcomes. In M, Bortz, H. Crow, & C. Gaddy (Eds.), Embracing Neurodiversity in Speech-Language Pathology. New York, NY: Routledge. [Invited manuscript in preparation]
• Kasambira Fannin, D., & Watson, L.R. (2022). Social communication in individuals on the autism spectrum. In D.A. Hwa-Froelich(Ed.), Social communication development and disorders, 2nd Ed. New York, NY: Psychology Press.
• Kasambira Fannin, D. (2022). Letter to the Clinician for Chapter 5, School age children part I: Early years. In B. Daughrity & A.W. Johnson (Eds.), Autism Spectrum Disorders from theory to practice: Assessment and intervention tools across the lifespan. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons.
• Mahendra, N.A., Girolamo, T.M., & Kasambira Fannin, D. (2021, August). Advancing justice and equity in the professions. The ASHA Leader.
• Kasambira Fannin, D. (2020). Special Forum: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Perspectives on the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 1-2, 5(1), 1-2.
• Fannin, D.C., & Watson, L.R. (2014). Social communication assessment and intervention for children on the autism spectrum. In D.A. Hwa-Froelich (Ed.), Social communication development and disorders. New York, NY: Psychology Press.
• Kasari, C., Kasambira Fannin, D.C., & Stickles, K. (2012). Joint attention intervention for children with autism. In P. Prelock, & R. McCauley (Eds.), Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evidence-based intervention strategies for communication and social interaction, Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes.

Peer Reviewed

• Kasambira Fannin, D., Shu, J., Maslow, G., Dawson, G., Goldstein, B. & Franz, L. (2026). The relationship between the Survey of Well-being of Young Children (SWYC) and late talking diagnosis. [Accepted at Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics].
• Coles-White, D., Abubakare, O., Alexander, S. H., & Kasambira Fannin, D. (2025). Consideration of intersectionality in the context of neurodiversity-affirming services for Black autistic people. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_PERSP-24-00172
• Thompson Brown, L., Kasambira Fannin, D., Lamptey, A., Uzonyi, T. E., & Pearson, J. N. (2024). Black caregiver perspectives during a developmental diagnostic interview. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06615-9
• Minga, J., Fullwood-Phillips, S., Rose, D., & Kasambira Fannin, D. (2024). The right ICD code, right now: A call-to-action for pragmatic language disorders after right hemisphere stroke. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-24-00090
• Kasambira Fannin, D., Williams, E., Fuller, M., Pearson, J.N., Boyd, B., Drame, E.R. Taylor, J.C., Dickerson, A.S., Spinks-Franklin, A., & Coles-White, D.(2024).Unpacking the prevalence: A warning against overstating the recently narrowed gap for Black autistic youth. Autism Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3168
• ​​Kasambira Fannin,D.(2024). Special Forum prologue: Bilingual assessment protocols for under-studied languages. Perspectives on the ASHA Special Interest Groups. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_PERSP-24-00093
• Kasambira Fannin, D., Elleby, J., Tackett, M., & Minga, J. (2023). Intersectionality of race and question asking in women after right hemisphere brain damage. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(1), 314-324.
• Girolamo, T., Castro, N., Kasambira Fannin, D., Ghali, S., Mandulak, K.C. (2022). (In)equity in peer review in communication sciences and disorders. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 31(4), 1898-1912.
• Kasambira Fannin, D., & Mandulak, K.C. (2021). Special Forum prologue: Increasing diversity in the communication sciences and disorders workforce. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_AJSLP-21-00258.
• Abdelaziz, M.M., Matthews, J., Campos, I., Kasambira Fannin, D., Rivera Perez, J.F., Wilhite, M., & Williams, R.M. (2021). Student Stories: Microaggressions in communication sciences and disorders. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_AJSLP-21-00030
• Kim, E.T., Franz, L., Kasambira Fannin, D., Howard, J., & Maslow, G. (2021). Educational classifications of autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability among school‚ aged children in North Carolina: Associations with race, rurality, and resource availability, Autism Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2492
• Kasambira Fannin, D. (2020). Special Forum: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Perspectives on the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_PERSP-19-00042.
• Kasambira Fannin, D., Crais, E.R., & Barbarin, O.A. (2018). Correlation between communicative functions of mothers and preschoolers of different racial and income groups. Journal of the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing, 13(1), 9-30.
• Kasambira Fannin, D., Barbarin, O.A., & Crais, E.R. (2018). Communicative function use of preschoolers and mothers from differing racial and socioeconomic groups. Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 49, 306-319.
• Kasambira Fannin, D. (2017). Reporting of underrepresented populations in autism treatment studies across 25 years. Clinical Archives of Communication Disorders, 2(3), 250-263.
• Kasambira Fannin, D., Barbarin, O.A., & Crais, E.R. (2017). Effects of mothers' and preschoolers' communicative function use and demographics on concurrent language and social skills. Journal of the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing, 12(2), 79-99.
• Kasambira Fannin, D. (2016). The intersection of culture and the ICF-CY Personal and Environmental Factors for Alternative and Augmentative Communication. Perspectives on the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 1(SIG 12), 63-82.
• Hooper, S.R., Roberts, J.E., Nelson, L., Zeisel, S., & Kasambira Fannin, D.C. (2010). Preschool predictors of narrative writing skills in elementary school children. School Psychology Quarterly, 25(1), 1-12.
• Hwa-Froelich, D., Kasambira, D.C., & Moleski, A.M. (2007). Communicative Functions of African American Head Start children. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 28(2), 77-91.