Ilona Helin, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Title:	Assistant Professor
Division:	Family and Consumer Sciences
Unit:	Family & Child Studies
Office Location:	Wirtz Hall 122H
Office Phone:	815-753-6343
Email:	ihelin@niu.edu

Courses Taught

• HDFS 231: Observational Approach to the Study and Assessment of Young Children

Education

• Ph.D., Loyola University (Erikson Institute), Child Development – Infant Mental Health
• M.S., Marquette University, Speech Language Pathology
• B.S., Marquette University, Speech Language Pathology

Certification

• Certification of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology, American Speech-Language Hearing Association
• Newborn Individualized Developmental Care Program (NIDCAP)
• Working Model of the Child Interview (WMCI)
• Hanen – It Takes Two to Talk, More Than Words

Licensure

• State of Illinois, Speech-Language Pathology License

Research Interests

• Reflective supervision
• Qualitative assessment of young children
• Parent child relationships in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit and after discharge
• Parents internal working models of their child with Autism
• Individualized developmental caregiving in early childhood classrooms
• Caregiving sensitivity and emotional availability