Kenyatta Rivers, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Central Florida, retired in August, 2019. Dr. Rivers was a faculty member at UCF since 1996. His areas of expertise were language disorders in school-age children, traumatic brain injury and multicultural issues. He passed away in May, 2020.
Dr. Rivers was a devoted, conscientious and caring professor who touched the lives of thousands of undergraduate and graduate students over the course of his career. He was active with the McNair Scholars program at UCF, the National Black Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NBASLH) and the Florida Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (FLASHA). Dr. Rivers served as a formal and informal mentor to a wide range of students in Communication Sciences and Disorders and beyond.