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Dr. Kelly Nett Cordero is a bilingual speech-language pathologist and rehabilitation program coordinator at the Barrow Cleft and Craniofacial Center. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Arizona State University in Phoenix.
Dr. Cordero studied communicative disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning her bachelor’s degree in education in 1996. She completed advanced Spanish coursework in Mexico in the summer of 1997, and earned her master’s degree the following year in speech-language pathology with a bilingual specialization from the University of Texas at Austin.
She earned her PhD in speech and language pathology from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in 2008, and completed her dissertation on the assessment of cleft palate articulation and resonance in familiar and unfamiliar languages: English, Spanish, and Hmong.
Dr. Cordero has worked as a bilingual speech and language pathologist at the Cleft and Craniofacial Center at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center and in a private clinic in Miami, Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, and Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has also taught students at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
To request an appointment at the Barrow Cleft and Craniofacial Center, please call (602) 406-3560.
- PhD, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Speech and Language Pathology, 2008
- MA, University of Texas at Austin, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Bilingual Specialization – Spanish Emphasis, 1998
- BS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Education, Communicative Disorders, 1996
- American Speech, Language, Hearing Association (ASHA)
- American Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Association (ACPA)
- Minnesota Speech Language and Hearing Association (MSHA)
- Diversity Champion, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2009
- College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Dissertation Award, 2008
- Graduate and Professional Student Association (GAPSA) Travel Grant Award, 2008
- ASHA Awards for Continuing Education (ACE), 2000-2004, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016
- English
- Spanish


Dr. Kelly Nett Cordero is a bilingual speech-language pathologist and rehabilitation program coordinator at the Barrow Cleft and Craniofacial Center. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Arizona State University in Phoenix.
Dr. Cordero studied communicative disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning her bachelor’s degree in education in 1996. She completed advanced Spanish coursework in Mexico in the summer of 1997, and earned her master’s degree the following year in speech-language pathology with a bilingual specialization from the University of Texas at Austin.
She earned her PhD in speech and language pathology from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in 2008, and completed her dissertation on the assessment of cleft palate articulation and resonance in familiar and unfamiliar languages: English, Spanish, and Hmong.
Dr. Cordero has worked as a bilingual speech and language pathologist at the Cleft and Craniofacial Center at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center and in a private clinic in Miami, Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, and Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has also taught students at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
To request an appointment at the Barrow Cleft and Craniofacial Center, please call (602) 406-3560.

- PhD, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Speech and Language Pathology, 2008
- MA, University of Texas at Austin, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Bilingual Specialization – Spanish Emphasis, 1998
- BS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Education, Communicative Disorders, 1996
- American Speech, Language, Hearing Association (ASHA)
- American Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Association (ACPA)
- Minnesota Speech Language and Hearing Association (MSHA)
- Diversity Champion, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2009
- College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Dissertation Award, 2008
- Graduate and Professional Student Association (GAPSA) Travel Grant Award, 2008
- ASHA Awards for Continuing Education (ACE), 2000-2004, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016
- English
- Spanish