Schools 2011 Faculty
Meet the Speakers Schools Conference Speakers
Stephen Calculator, PhD, CCC-SLP, is professor and chair of the University of New Hampshire's Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and an adjunct professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, NH. Since earning his doctorate in Communicative Disorders from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1980, Stephen has published extensively and lectured nationally and internationally in the areas of augmentative and alternative communication and inclusive education, particularly with respect to individuals with severe disabilities. He draws upon a vast array of clinical experiences as an ongoing consultant to numerous schools and other agencies across the USA.
Li-Rong Lilly Cheng, PhD, CCC-SLP, is professor in the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at San Diego State University and executive director of the Chinese Study Institute. She is also the managing director of the Confucius Institute and the co-chair of Asian Task Force. An ASHA Fellow, Dr. Cheng is the recipient of the 1997 ASHA Award for special contributions to Multicultural Affairs and the recipient of the 2002 Diversity Award from the California Speech & Hearing Association. She founded the Asian Pacific Speech and Hearing Science Foundation. Dr. Cheng has numerous publications and has lectured all over the world.
Sandra Laing Gillam, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an associate professor in Communication Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University. Her research interests include assessment and intervention for language and literacy impairments, multicultural populations, and processes involved in text comprehension. She has written numerous book chapters and articles addressing each of these topics. She has taught courses in language development and disorders, assessment and intervention for language and phonological development and disorders, multicultural issues, and phonological awareness and literacy in school-age children.
Richard Guare, PhD, D-BCBA, is a neuropsychologist and board certified behavior analyst. He is director of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders at Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He serves as consultant to schools and agencies in programs for autism, learning and behavior disorders, and acquired brain injuries. Dr. Guare has presented and published research and clinical work involving attention, executive skill, neurobehavioral issues, and autism spectrum disorders. He is co-author with Dr. Margaret Dawson of two best-selling books on executive dysfunction, Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents and Smart But Scattered, as well as Coaching the ADHD Student. He is also the co-author, with Chuck Martin and Dr. Dawson, of two books on executive skills of adults in business settings.
Laurie Alban Havens, MA, CCC-SLP, joined the ASHA staff as director, private health plans and Medicaid advocacy in October, 2010, and has experience both as a reimbursement and coverage expert and as a speech-language pathologist. Most recently, she was a corporate compliance officer for a rehabilitation and skilled nursing home system. Prior to that Ms. Alban Havens was a project manager for a corporation specializing in national Medicare and Medicaid consultation, a project coordinator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a manager for clinical and reimbursement regulations for a rehabilitation contractor, a skilled nursing home administrator, and a speech-language pathologist in the Montgomery County Schools.
Eva Horn, PhD, is a professor at the University of Kansas, where she has taught since 2000. Her primary emphasis is in the provision of effective and appropriate services to young children and their families. She has published much of her work in early childhood education journals, including Journal of Early Intervention, Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, and Early Childhood Research Quarterly. In addition, she has authored or co-authored numerous book chapters, including two in the YEC/DEC monograph on inclusion and effective instructional strategies. She is currently principal investigator of a multi-university IES research project developing a multi-tiered model of support for young children with disabilities with a foundation of high-quality, universally designed curriculum. She is a consulting editor for Focus on Exceptional Children and the former editor of Young Exceptional Children.
Barbara Hoskins, PhD, CCC-SLP, holds a doctorate in learning disabilities from Northwestern University. She has worked as an educational consultant and speech-language pathologist in public and private schools, clinics, psychiatric hospitals, hospitals, and juvenile justice facilities. Dr. Hoskins is a nationally recognized speaker who conducts workshops for speech-language pathologists, psychologists, and other educators across the U.S. and Canada. She has published and presented workshops on topics including conversational interaction, collaborative consultation, inclusion, attention deficits, learning and motivation, and organizational change. She originally developed the program Conversations, which has been used successfully by speech-language pathologists and other professionals for over a decade. The current program, Conversations Framework, has been revised in collaboration with Kristine Noel.
Marie Ireland, MEd, CCC-SLP, serves as the Virginia Department of Education's educational specialist for speech-language pathology, and works closely with Virginia's Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) on Medicaid issues in the public school setting. She also provides professional development and technical assistance for evaluation and eligibility, language diversity, and other special education issues in Virginia. She has worked in Virginia's public schools as a speech-language pathologist at the elementary and secondary level and supervised programs for special education students K–12. She served on the Speech-Language Hearing Association of Virginia's Board for six years, is president-elect of the State Education Agencies Communication Disabilities Council, and is currently a member of the ASHA SLP Advisory Council and School Finance Committee.
Lisa Keane, MS, CCC-SLP, has 20 years of experience working in Broward County, Florida, Public Schools. As a speech and language program specialist, she provides support and training to speech-language pathologists in Broward County. She has participated on district committees dealing with issues related to caseload/workload, critical shortage, and services provided to private school students with disabilities. In addition to her schools experience, Lisa also has many years of experience in part-time clinical settings, providing speech-language services to children and young adults.
Vicki Lord Larson, PhD, CCC-SLP, is chancellor emerita, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. She has spent two years as a public school SLP, and 32 years in the University of Wisconsin system, serving more than 20 years in the administrative positions of dean, provost, and interim chancellor. She has presented numerous workshops and co-authored four textbooks with Nancy McKinley on the topic of older students with language disorders, most recently Communication Solutions for Older Students. Dr. Larson also co-authored S-MAPS: Rubrics for Curriculum-Based Assessment and Intervention with Elisabeth Wiig and Joyce Olson, and Asperger Syndrome: Strategies for Solving the Social Puzzle with Nancy Kaufman. She has co-authored several books for grades K–5 entitled: Working out With Listening and Working out With Writing. In 1991, she received the Honors of the Association from ASHA.
Gregory L. Lof, PhD, CCC-SLP, is professor and chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston. His research, teaching, and clinical interests are primarily with children who have speech sound disorders. He is or has been an editorial consultant for three of ASHA's scholarly journals. He was a member of the committee that conducted evidence-based systematic reviews of oral-motor exercises for ASHA's Center for Evidence-Based Practice in Communication Disorders, and he serves on the communications committee of the Council on Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Dr. Lof has published numerous articles, and he has presented many peer-reviewed and invited presentations and workshops at ASHA conventions, universities, school districts, and state and international association conventions.
Judy K. Montgomery, PhD, CCC-SLP, BRS-CL, a professor of communication sciences and disorders at Chapman University in Orange, CA, has extensive experience as a practitioner and educational administrator. In the public schools, she was a director of special education, an elementary school principal, a coordinator of federal projects, and a clinician serving preschoolers, English learners, Head Start children, and adolescents with complex communication disabilities. She has written 12 books on these topics, including The Bridge to Vocabulary, and with Dr. Barbara J. Moore co-authored Making a Difference for America's Children: Speech-Language Pathologists in Public Schools and START-IN, a Response-to-Intervention Program. Recently, she published a standardized test of receptive and expressive vocabulary titled Montgomery Assessment of Vocabulary Acquisition (MAVA). She is a former president of ASHA, editor-in-chief of the journal Communication Disorders Quarterly, and a 2010 recipient of ASHA's Honors of the Association.
Andrea "Deedee" Moxley, MA, CCC-SLP, is Associate Director for Multicultural Resources at ASHA. She worked at Montgomery County Public Schools prior to coming to the National Office. Deedee is responsible for responding to technical assistance questions, developing resources for working with diverse populations and co-managing the S.T.E.P. Mentoring Program. Her areas of interest include cultural competence, bilingualism and health literacy.
Wren S. Newman, SLPD, CCC-SLP, is associate dean for the programs in speech-language and communication disorders at Nova Southeastern University. She was named a Fellow of ASHA in 2006. She was recently recognized as the Executive of the Year at Nova Southeastern University and was honored by the University of Miami–Nova Southeastern University Center for Autism and Related Disabilities in the fall of 2010. Dr. Newman is currently a member of ASHA's Board of Ethics. She has previously served as the Coordinator of Special Interest Group 11, Administration and Supervision, and has also served on ASHA's Ad Hoc Committee on Supervision in Speech-Language Pathology, Academic Affairs Coordinating Committee, and the Council for Clinical Certification in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology.
Kristine Noel, MS, CCC-SLP, is an educational consultant who has worked as a special education coordinator and as a clinician in public schools, hospitals, Head Start programs, and juvenile justice settings. Kristine was part of the team that developed the original Conversations program and has been using it since its original development. Currently she is the professional development coordinator for Region IX Education Cooperative in New Mexico. She has presented on topics such as IEP development, secondary literacy, data-driven decision making, positive behavior supports, learning communities, response to intervention, and student assistance teams. She is currently completing her PhD in special education at the University of New Mexico. Her professional and research interests include language, literacy, and behavior intervention with high-risk adolescents.
Diane Paul, PhD, CCC-SLP, CAE, ASHA's Director of Clinical Issues in Speech-Language Pathology provides professional consultation, tracks trends, develops education programs and products, and assists with the development of policy documents. Dr. Paul is co-author of Talking on the Go, designed to enhance speech/language development, and RTI in Action, which provides oral language activities for K–2 classrooms. Dr. Paul is an ASHA Fellow and has worked at ASHA for 22 years.
Linda Peltz is director of the Division of Benefits and Coverage, Disabled and Elderly Health Programs Group in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She has spent the overwhelming majority of her federal service working with States, providers, stakeholders, and other federal agencies on Medicaid coverage policy issues. Currently Linda oversees activities related to Federal Medicaid policy for all 1905(a) institutional and non-institutional Medicaid benefits and services. She was instrumental in the development of the Medicaid School-Based Technical Guide for States and has worked extensively with ASHA over the years to help inform Federal policies around coverage of speech-language pathology and audiology services.
Jerry D. Posner is an engaging speaker, writer, "motivational entertainer," and ukulele player. After a near-death experience in 1976, he set out on a lifelong quest to learn and practice ways to become a more positive, growth-oriented, productive, and happier person. He takes a practical, open-minded approach to self-improvement and self-mastery, sharing stories and research with diverse (and appreciative) audiences. His professional resume includes: radio personality and voice-over artist, advertising executive, magazine publisher, and stand-up humorist. Jerry is a specialist in customer service training, and teaches workshops and seminars for a wide variety of clients including hotels, restaurants, banks, insurance companies, retail, non-profits, and educational institutions. His book, Attention Late Bloomers: You're Right On Time! is available on Amazon.com in standard and Kindle formats, and he's currently working on his next book.
Patricia Prelock, PhD, CCC-SLP, BRS-CL, is dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Vermont. She also coordinates parent-training programs for children with autism through the Vermont Interdisciplinary Leadership Education for Health Professionals Program, a federally funded interdisciplinary training grant. She is project director for a State Improvement Grant to facilitate the establishment of a distance education graduate program to prepare SLPs in rural communities to serve school children with communication disorders. She was the 2008–2010 ASHA Vice-President for Standards and Ethics in SLP, is an ASHA Fellow, a University of Vermont Scholar, and recipient of a Kroepsch Maurice Excellence in Teaching award. Dr. Prelock has 107 publications and 375 peer-reviewed and invited presentations in the areas of autism, collaboration, language assessment and intervention, and language learning disabilities.
Jo-Anne Prendeville, EdD, CCC-SLP, is an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati with a specialty in language and literacy. She is the principal investigator on a U.S. DOE Personnel Preparation Grant, Enhancing the Cultural Competence of SLPs through Preparation of Authentic Assessment, which has a language and literacy focus. Dr. Prendeville teaches courses in literacy, language disorders, and speech-language development.
Emily Rubin, MS, CCC-SLP, is the director of Communication Crossroads, a private practice in Carmel, California. She specializes in clients with autism, Asperger's syndrome, and related social learning disabilities. As an adjunct faculty member and lecturer at Yale University, she has served as a member of its Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic. She has also been an instructor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, where she developed coursework to prepare graduate students for addressing the needs of children with autism and their families. Her publications have focused on early identification of autism, contemporary intervention models, and programming guidelines for high functioning autism and Asperger's syndrome. She is also a co-author of the clinical manual for the SCERTS Model, a comprehensive educational approach for children with autism spectrum disorders.
Michelle Shearer, the 2011 National Teacher of the Year, currently teaches Advanced Placement Chemistry at Urbana High School in the public school system of Frederick County, Maryland. Certified in both chemistry and special education, Ms. Shearer was drawn to teaching when, as an undergraduate science student at Princeton University, she began volunteering once a week at Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf in Trenton, New Jersey. She became one of only thirty Princeton graduates out of 1,070 in her year to graduate with teaching certification as well as a content-area degree. Since she began teaching Advanced Placement chemistry over a decade ago, she has successfully accommodated exceptional students with low vision, dyslexia, dysgraphia, attention deficit disorder, and Asperger's syndrome into her AP chemistry classroom. In 2003, after building a rapport and relationship with both profoundly deaf and hard-of-hearing students at the Maryland School for the Deaf (MSD), she taught AP chemistry there for the first time in the school's 135-year history, conducting the course entirely in American Sign Language.
Larry B. Silver, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in private practice in the Washington, DC area. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center. Previously, he was Acting Director and Deputy Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institutes of Health. For more than forty years his primary areas of research, clinical, and teaching interest have focused on the psychological, social, and family impact learning disabilities, language disabilities, sensory processing disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. He is the author of more than 150 publications including the popular book, The Misunderstood Child: A Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities, now in its fourth edition.
Phyllis S. Watson, MS, CCC-SLP, is an AAC specialist with more than 25 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and adults with severe disabilities in a variety of settings including nursing homes, hospitals, developmental day programs, and public schools. She has taught courses at Butler University, Indiana University, and the University of New Hampshire, and has presented at local and national conferences. Currently, she works for Crotched Mountain ATECH services as an AAC specialist.
Julie Weatherly, Esq, is the owner of Resolutions in Special Education, Inc. in Mobile, Alabama, and is a member of the State Bars of Alabama and Georgia. For 25 years, she has provided legal representation and consultative services to educational agencies across the country in their efforts to comply with the requirements of the IDEA and Section 504. In 1996, Julie appeared with Leslie Stahl on the CBS news program 60 Minutes to discuss the cost of meeting the legal requirements of the IDEA. She has been a member of the faculty for many national and state legal institutes and is a frequent speaker at special education law conferences. Julie has developed a number of videotaped training series on special education law, and has been published nationally as a part of her trainings, workshops, and seminars.
Linda Wellman, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati. She is the co-director of a U.S. DOE Personnel Preparation Grant, Enhancing the Cultural Competence of SLPs through Preparation of Authentic Assessment. Dr. Wellman works as a school-based clinician, as well as teaching courses in language and literacy. As a school-based clinician, she has developed a study skills program for the intermediate grades and is developing authentic assessment protocols for literacy in the primary grades.
J. Scott Yaruss, PhD, CCC-SLP, BRS-FD, ASHA Fellow, is an associate professor and director of the master's degree programs in speech-language pathology at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Yaruss's research examines factors that may contribute to the development of stuttering in young children, as well as methods for evaluating stuttering treatment outcomes. He has published more than 130 papers, articles, chapters, or booklets on stuttering. He teaches classes on stuttering and counseling methods for speech-language pathologists at the University of Pittsburgh and frequently provides continuing education workshops designed to help clinicians improve their ability to work with individuals who stutter.