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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