Bonnie Brinton is a former professor of communications disorders at Brigham Young University, where she served as an associate dean in the McKay School of Education and as dean of Graduate Studies. Along with her husband, Martin Fujiki, she received the Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award and the Frank R. Kleffner Clinical Career Award.
Brinton earned her PhD in audiology and speech language pathology from the University of Utah. She has worked as a practicing speech language pathologist in school, hospital, and clinical settings. At the University of Kansas, she worked as a research scientist, and at the University of Nevada, Reno, she was an associate professor of speech language pathology. She began teaching at BYU in 1994.
Because of her expertise, Brinton has been invited to lecture in many national and international settings. She has chaired the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Committee on Language Learning Disorders and served as an associate editor for the quarterly journal Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. She is an ASHA fellow.
She and her husband have two children.
