Connecticut
Teresa Ann Cherry-Cruz
T.O.T.A.L Program, Bridgeport
For founding and directing the T.O.T.A.L. Program, Teaching Others to Achieve Literacy, a five-week summer program of academic and recreational activities aimed to enhance language and literacy skills of inner-city children and adolescents at risk.
Florida
Lillian Rosenberg
Miami Speech and Language Center
For clinical accomplishments in the areas of auditory processing, literacy, and bilingual treatment and, specifically, for developing the Spanish version of the Sequenced Inventory of Communication Development.
Illinois
Heidi Harbers
Illinois State University, Normal
For implementing a phonological awareness and literacy screening program in the schools that has provided graduate students, school educators and school administrators with enhanced knowledge and tools for best practices.
Kentucky
Robin Strode
Early Childhood Development Center, Frankfort
For creativity and activism in developing and widely disseminating a research-based protocol for treatment of Childhood Verbal Apraxia and for providing ongoing training to other professionals at the local, state, and national level.
New York
Laurie Hanin
League for the Hard of Hearing
For heightening awareness and increasing access to audiological services for individuals with hearing impairment through her unique ability to leverage clinical knowledge and skills and activate media dissemination of critical consumer information.
South Dakota
Linda Tyler
Sioux Valley Hospital and USD Medical Center
For exemplary work in providing comprehensive, interdisciplinary assessment and treatment of voice disorders in a medical setting with an underserved population in the state and surrounding region.
Utah
Julie Lynn Wambaugh
University of Utah
For leadership in research contributions, teaching and mentoring and the outstanding role model as an active contributor to patient care, student life, and professional careers.
Wisconsin
Steven Long
Marquette University
For development and free distribution of Computerized Profiling software that facilitates the analysis of speech and language samples, and for creating software tools to perform phonological analysis of Spanish, Spanish-influenced English, and African-American Vernacular English.