Maureen Kennedy-Ormond
| Years of ASHA Membership: |
35 |
| Volunteer Service: |
- Virginia Healthcare Association, Education and Training Committee
- Virginia and Quality Assurance Committee
- American Cancer Society
- Committee on Counseling
- Community Service Board
- Oral Cancer/Laryngectomee Group
- Catholic University of America
- Education/Curriculum Committee, Chair
- Ad Hoc Interschool Committee on Aging Services, Chair
- Advisory Neighborhood Council/DC - Capitol Hill, Board
- Volunteer Research Clinician at the 97th General Hospital in Frankfurt, Germany
- Committee to Upgrade Services to the Elderly
- Committee to Upgrade Services to Laryngectomees
- Committee on Health Care Policy and Planning
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Professional Bio
My professional experience includes: clinician chief SLP at the DC Washington Hospital Center; contract therapist at Providence Hospital and at Georgetown University Medical Center in DC, Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland and currently at Sentara Williamsburg and Careplex Hospitals in central Virginia. I have served as regional manager for Genesis Rehabilitation Services, as Program Manager in long-term care for Novacare and Genesis, in Acute Rehab at the Virginia Hospital Center and as Clinical Consultant for Prism Rehabilitation. Additionally, I worked for the Pinellas Schools as clinician and diagnostician, for the DC Society of Crippled Children and in out patient settings in Sarasota and in Williamsburg for the Riverside Rehabilitation Institute. My early clinical training included Walter Reed Hospital and the VA, both in Washington, DC.
Maia Magder
| Years of ASHA Membership: |
8 |
| ASHA Committee Service: |
- Legislative Council (2006-2007)
- Speech-Language Pathology Advisory Council (2008)
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| Other Volunteer Service: |
- DCSHA Executive Board Member (2006-present)
- Therapeutic Riding Volunteer at Rock Creek Stables
- Seeds of Peace Young Leadership Council
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Professional Bio
Maia Magder, MS, CCC-SLP is in her third year serving ASHA, first as a Legislative Councilor and now as a Speech-Language Pathology Advisory Council member. She has met with Representative Eleanor Holmes-Norton on behalf of the LC and SLPAC and was successful in changing Holmes-Norton's vote to support IDEA funding.
Maia is a speech-language pathologist at the National Institutes of Health and provides cognitive-linguistic, speech, and swallowing assessment and treatment services to NIH patients. Her area of interest is in neurogenic disorders of communication in adults, as well as psychiatric disorders that affect communication in children, particularly childhood onset schizophrenia. Read more information about her work.
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