1998 State Clinical Achievement Award

Arkansas
Gretchen M. Spring

Achievement: For being one of the first speech-language pathologists in the state of Arkansas to conduct laryngectomee rehabilitation utilizing telemedicine technology. The use of this delivery model has allowed patients living in rural and remote parts of the state to access rehabilitative service.

District of Columbia
Carmen C. Brewer

Achievement: FFor developing and implementing the ABR Interpretation Matrix (AIM) that provides a standard for interpreting the ABR for patients with sensorineural hearing loss. She developed and based this system on over twenty years of experience in the field of Audiology.

Florida
Robert C. Fifer

Achievement: For his teaching, research, clinical work, presentations, and publications particularly in the areas of Infant Hearing Screening, Auditory Brainstem Responses, Otoacoustic Emissions and Cochlear Implants and for his recent contributions in the development of legislative initiative for universal newborn hearing screening.

Illinois
Gail J. Richard

Achievement: For her work to assist speech-language pathologists, parents, children, educators, and administrators in determining the most appropriate educational placements, best clinical practices, and interaction strategies with children who have been diagnosed with autism or pervasive developmental delay.

Kentucky
Jane O'Regan Kleinert

Achievement: For her inservice training activities on communication in Project SHIPP, SPLASH, and Project Lexington, and for her dedication to the areas in communication and pre-speech and in feeding activities for infants and toddlers with physical handicaps.

Louisiana
Linda B. Rose

Achievement: For her relentless efforts and support of the Identification of Hearing Impairment in Infants Law in 1992, for implementing this unfunded law through the Sound Start Program and Regional Task Forces, and for her determination in identifying every hearing impaired infant in Louisiana before the age of six months.

New York
Joan C. Arvedson

Achievement: For her pioneering work in the advancement of knowledge in assessing and managing infants and children with feeding and swallowing disorders and for her teaching, writing, and patient care that have all made an impact at local, state, national, and international levels.

North Carolina
Sandie Barrie-Blackley

Achievement: For her role as the lead individual from 1994-1998 in designing all aspects of the N.C. speech-language pathology assistants program which has become an exemplary model for the nation to ensure patient safety and therapeutic effectiveness of new groups of caregivers.

Ohio
Roberta DePompei

Achievement: For her efforts in conceptualizing and forming the TBI Collaborative Partnership which links over 40 agencies in northeastern Ohio in order to address service gaps and better utilize existing services that could meet the specialized needs of individuals with brain injury in Summit County, Ohio.

Utah
Don W. Worthington

Achievement: For the establishment of the IHC Hearing and Balance Center which has brought the Intermount West the first comprehensive vestibular assessment and rehabilitation program and for his contributions to enhance the academic programs of the University of Utah and Utah State University by teaching courses and by mentoring students at his Hearing and Balance Center.

Virginia
Patricia M. Peters

Achievement: For promoting and demonstrating great understanding of the issues and options facing laryngectomy patients and those serving to rehabilitate them and for her book, journal articles, and oral presentations recognizing the importance of combining collaboration, compassion, advocacy and mentoring, with effective clinical procedures in the rehabilitation of the laryngectomy patient.

Washington
Robert Miller

Achievement: For heading a Task Force that formulated a detailed set of guidelines for the use of instrumentation in diagnosing, assessing, treating, and managing patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia in order to improve the quality of service, prevent costly or unfounded practices, and stimulate needed research.

Wisconsin
Ann D. Heinrich

Achievement: For developing a five year special education project for teachers, parents, and students that provided needed services to language-learning disabled children involving teacher training, revision of screening protocols, and development of an assessment-intervention tool ( DAITS) which is the process of being published.