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2008 Audiology Advisory Council Election

Virginia Candidate

Claire A. Jacobson

Years of ASHA Membership: 24

Volunteer Service:

  • Co-authored the Senate Bill 585 – Hearing Impairment Identification and Monitoring System Law 
  • Advisory Board member for Virginia's Newborn Maternal Child Health (EHDI) since 1998
  • Task force for VA speech protocols for NHS & Intervention
  • Consultant for five hospital-based NHS
  • Speech and Hearing Association for Virginia (SHAV)
    • Service award, 2000
    • President-Elect from 2006-2007
    • President, 2008
    • Serves on the Board of Directors as Past-President
  • AAA Board of Ethics
  • Tidewater Audiology Association of Virginia
    • President, 2 years
    • Newsletter Editor
  • Virginia Network of Consultants (VNOC)
  • Action Alliance for Virginia's Children
  • Youth Board of Directors for Children Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
  • Audiology Today
  • American Academy of Audiology, Assistant Editor of the Bulletin
  • James Madison University
    • Diversity Counsel
    • Communication Sciences and Disorders Clinical Advisory Committee 
    • Clinical Services Steering Committee
  • Remote Area Medical Services, February 2005, July 2005, and February 2006, Wise, Virginia
  • Special Olympics 2005, Richmond, Virginia
  • Virginia Society of Pediatrics
  • CSAP & CSAP Academic Committee

Professional Bio

Dr. Claire Jacobson, Audiologist, holds a doctoral and Master's degree in Audiology and a second master's degree in Educational Psychology. Dr. Jacobson holds a Graduate Faculty position at James Madison University. She directs all on-site and off-site practicum clinical actives for the Audiology Doctoral program. Teaching responsibilities include Pediatric Audiology, Cochlear Implants, Professional Seminars, and Aural Rehabilitation and Methods in Audiology. She has developed a new model of for 4th year AuD externships.

From 1992 to 2005 she was Director of Audiology & Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program, at the Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, in Norfolk, Virginia. Concurrently, she held a faculty appointment at Eastern Virginia Medical School. She has also held a faculty appointment at the Arizona School of Health Sciences, School of Audiology.

She co-authored the Senate Bill 585–Hearing Impairment Identification and Monitoring System Law, and received a SHAV service award in 2000.



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