2012 Continuing Education Board (CEB)

2011 CE Board - Front row: Allan O. Diefendorf (Monitoring VP); Theresa H. Rodgers; Kirstin E. Chiasson; Sherri Lovelace Brooks; Pauline A. Mashima (Chair). Back row: Ellen C. Fagan (ex officio); Valeria R. Matlock; Twhanna J. Green; Mary Ruth Sizer; Jo Ann Linseisen (staff); Mona R. Ryan; Renee Levinson (staff). Absent: Pamela L. Jackson; Jennifer B. Watson (Monitoring VP)

The CEB develops the policies and procedures of the ASHA Continuing Education (CE) program. It comprises 9 volunteer ASHA members and a monitoring vice president from the ASHA Board of Directors. The ASHA CE staff at the National Office implement the policies and procedures developed by the CEB. Seventeen ASHA CE staff directly support the CEB's work. The ASHA CE program:

• Promotes participation in CE by audiologists and speech-language pathologists
• Approves providers of CE courses
• Evaluates and registers CE courses offered by ASHA CE Providers
• Awards ASHA Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to participants in registered courses
• Issues official ASHA CE Registry transcripts
• Transmits ASHA CEU information to credentialing and licensing agencies
• Provides an Award for Continuing Education (ACE) as an incentive for participation in CE
• Maintains a computerized record keeping service through the ASHA CE Registry
• Provides a CE information clearinghouse for ASHA members and certificate holders

Chair: Pauline Mashima, PhD, CCC-SLP

Pauline is Chief of the Speech Pathology Section at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu; on the affiliate graduate faculty in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine; and a doctoral candidate in communication sciences and disorders at the University of Cincinnati. She is an ASHA Fellow who received an Award for Outstanding Clinical Achievement from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation, and earned 17 Awards for Continuing Education from 1983 to 2010. She served as Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Telepractice in SLP (2009), and as a member of the Working Group on Telepractice (2003-2005), Continuing Education Board (2000-2002), Multicultural Issues Board (1992-1994), Coordinating Committee for the Vice President for Planning (1991), State of Hawaii Board of Speech Pathology and Audiology (1995-2002), and as President of the Hawaii Speech-Language-Hearing Association (1990-1991).

Linda M. Carroll, PhD, CCC-SLP

Linda Carroll is an internationally-recognized voice clinician with nearly 30 years experience working in hospital settings, academic settings, research centers, and private practice. She holds bachelor degrees in voice performance and in music education (University of Maine), and earned her MS, MPhil, and PhD in Speech and Language Pathology/Applied Speech Science from Columbia University. A frequent guest speaker at national and international conferences, as well as a mentor to many clinicians, she was also coordinator for The Voice Foundation Symposium on Care of the Professional Voice, and served as Director for the 2006 ASHA Pre-Conference on Laryngeal Imaging. Dr. Carroll is Program Chair for Voice, Speech and Alaryngeal Committee for the 2012 ASHA convention, and has served on the Steering Committee for the Special Interest Division (now Special Interest Group) for Voice. She maintains a private practice in voice/speech disorders in New York City, and serves as senior voice scientist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Kirstin Chiasson, PhD, CCC-A

Kirstin earned her bachelors of arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara in Speech and Hearing Sciences. She earned her masters of arts in audiology from San Jose State University and her PhD in Communicative Disorders from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kirstin's career has included time as a university professor, a pediatric audiologist in a large hospital setting, as well as a small rural private practice, work as a public health audiologist in British Columbia, Canada, and hospital administration. Kirstin is a pediatric audiologist who enjoys the challenge of clinical research, clinical administration, and professiona team building.

Twhanna Green, PhD, CCC-SLP

Twhanna J. Green is a pediatric speech-language pathologist who received her master's degree from the University of the District of Columbia, and her bachelor's and doctorate from Howard University. She holds speech-language pathology and administrator certifications in the state of Maryland. Her professional experience includes work in a variety of settings, such as early intervention programs, public/private/charter schools, private practice, home health, and university programs. She currently works for Calvert County Public Schools in Maryland, and continues to serve also as a consultant in speech-language development and disorders, early intervention, and special education.

Valeria Roberts Matlock, EdD, CCC-A

Valeria Roberts Matlock received her post baccalaureate degrees from Tennessee State University. Dr. Matlock worked as a clinical audiologist and clinical educator at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center for nine years. For the past fifteen years, she has worked in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at Tennessee State University, where she is an associate professor in coordinator clinical services in Audiology. Dr. Matlock has authored and co-authored research articles on the subject of hearing loss and sickle cell anemia. She is past president of the Tennessee Associaiton of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists, president-elect for the Board of Directors for the League for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Nashville), and member for the Tennessee Department of Health Board of Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Sherri Lovelace Brooks, PhD, CCC-SLP

Dr. Sherri (Lovelace) Brooks has been a practicing speech-language pathologist since 1997. She received her baccalaureate and master's degrees from Arkansas State University (ASU) and her doctorate from the University of Kentucky. In 2001, she joined the faculty in the Department of Communication Disorders at ASU while continuing to manage a thriving clinical practice. Sherri has numerous presentations to forums on state and national levels, publications in refereed journals, and a book chapter in Laura Justice's Clinical Approaches to Emergent Literacy Intervention. She currently serves as advisor to the ASU chapter of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association and is an executive board member of the National Black Association for Speech Language and Hearing. She is also the owner of Speech Pathology Associates of Northeast Arkansas, Inc., a provider of itinerant speech therapy services to school-age children.

Pamela Jackson, PhD, CCC-A

Pam is professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University, where she served as an academic faculty member and coordinator of the audiology graduate program. She taught courses in aural rehabilitation and pediatric audiology along with courses in anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the ear. Her clinical responsibilities included supervision of pediatric audiologic assessments and aural rehabilitation with children and adults. Pam's research has focused primarily on aural rehabilitation with publications in the areas of auditory, visual, and combined auditory-visual speech perception, and speech evaluation and treatment with clients who are hearing impaired. She has served on the Educational Standards Board, the Clinical Certification Board, and the Council for Clinical Certification of ASHA. In addition, she served as the coordinator or associate coordinator of Special Interest Groups 7 and 9. She currently serves as the continuing education administrator for the Audiology Special Interest Groups. Pam is a Fellow of ASHA and the Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Mona Ryan, CCC-SLP

Mona received her master's degree in speech pathology from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC). She has more than 18 years of experience in school-based services, working primarily with preschool and elementary students. She worked in 2004 as a speech-language consultant to the Oklahoma State Department of Education. Mona has been a clinical educator/assistant professor at OUHSC since 2005. She teaches undergraduate coursework and supervises graduate diagnostics assignments. Her special areas of interest are auditory processing disorders and speech-language pathology assistants. Mona was president of the Oklahoma Speech-Language-Hearing Association (2006) and received the Honors of the Association from OSHA (2004). She currently serves as the governmental regulations chair. Mona participated in the ASHA leadership development program in 2008.

Amy L. Weiss, PhD, CCC-SLP

Amy is a professor in the department of communicative disorders at the University of Rhode Island and serves as the Graduate Coordinator of their master of science in speech pathology program. She teaches courses in language disorders of young children and school-age children, phonological disorders, fluency disorders, and multicultural issues. An NIH grant recipient, Amy is also a board-recognized Specialist in Child Language (ASHA), the author of one text, Resource Guide on Preschool Language Disorders (Thomson Learning), and the editor of another, Perspectives on Individual Differences Affecting Therapeutic Change in Communication Disorders (Psychology Press), has authored or co-authored more than a dozen book chapters, and 35 journal articles. She served as the chairperson of the Board of Division Coordinators for ASHA's Special Interest Division (now SIGs) program (2008–2010), coordinator of SIG 1, Language Learning and Education (2005–2007), a member of ASHA's Scientific and Professional Education Board committee, and a frequent topic coordinator for ASHA's annual Convention. Amy has also served as the secretary of the International Fluency Association since 2006. Her career experiences in the clinic have included direction of a language-based preschool classroom, providing hospital-based services, and the clinical training of hundreds of graduate students at Purdue University, the University of Colorado, and the University of Iowa, prior to her employment at the University of Rhode Island. Amy was named an ASHA Fellow in 2007.