Gilbert teaches graduate and undergraduate courses such as assessment, program management,
language development, teaching preschoolers with disabilities, and introduction to
early childhood special education. She supervises interns completing their early intervention
placement, working with children under the age of three with disabilities in home,
childcare, and school settings.
She has extensive experience in grant work, having successfully written and received
grant funding for over $2,526,305 for personal research, personnel development, and
training. Dr. Gilbert has published an Early Start Infant-Toddler Curriculum, an instructor’s manual for Communication Sciences and Disorders: A Clinical Evidence-Based Approach (3rd ed.), and a chapter in Global Competencies for Educational Diplomacy in International Settings. She has also completed two book reviews and is the APA editor for the International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Her work experience was as an early interventionist and speech therapist in South
Alabama.