2001 State Clinical Achievement Award

Arkansas
Suzan Bell

Achievement: For initiating local fundraising to support soundfield assistive listening devices in all classrooms in Eureka Springs Elementary School. The initiative was begun to accommodate those diagnosed with Central Auditory Processing Disorders, with a goal of supplying middle and high schools with the surround sound systems.

California
Stephen D. Roberts

Achievement: For overseeing the three year development of a standardized tool for measuring functional clinical outcomes in children who are "at risk" for communication, cognitive, sensory, and/or physical deficits. This tool, Functional Evaluation of Sensori-neurologic Outcomes (FRESNO), is applicable to clinical, financial, and administrative systems serving children with traumatic injuries.

District of Columbia
Paul R. Rao

Achievement: For national leadership on stroke rehabilitation and prevention and for his role as lead editor of Managing Stroke: A Guide to Living Well After Stroke, which devotes a chapter to assist stroke survivors in selecting an appropriate rehabilitation program.  

Florida
Carol Zangari

Achievement: For establishing the Tyler Institute in 1997 which is devoted to aiding those with communication disorders through speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, and physical therapy services, including the Augmentative Communication Education Lab which houses over 50 pieces of assistive technology for use by faculty and graduate students at the University.

Illinois
Rebecca Throneburg

Achievement: For collaborating with area school districts to conduct research projects designed to evaluate speech-language service delivery models and consultative and collaborative team teaching with a goal of implementing research-based practice.

Iowa
Paulette Wood

Achievement: For establishing the Adult Outpatient Dysphagia Clinic which provides videofluroscopies to patients outside of the inpatient hospital setting, allowing those individuals in long-term care settings and private homes to obtain services otherwise difficult to obtain due to transportation and staffing issues.

Kansas
Debora Burns Daniels

Achievement: For co-founding the Childhood Autism Referral and Evaluation (CARE) Clinic which utilizes a team of speech-language pathologists, psychologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, social workers, developmental pediatricians, nurses, and nutritionists to evaluate and treat children with autism and counsel family members of these children.

Kentucky
Michelle A. King

Achievement: For activism in achieving mandatory Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in Kentucky and, specifically, for implementing Kentucky's Sound Start, a federal grant developed to assist in the implementation of universal newborn screening by helping facilities obtain the diagnostic equipment necessary to carry out the screening process.

Louisiana
Charlotte Ducote

Achievement: For co-founding Operation Smile's Speech Therapy-Vietnam Project, a not-for-profit, non-governmental agency which provides reconstructive surgery and related care to indigent children and adults in developing countries and in the United States.

New York
Charleen M. Bloom

Achievement: For founding and directing the Council of Fluency, a unique clinical training program for children, teens, and adults who stutter and their families. The council serves as a self-help and mentor group and university training program where clients are involved in team teaching graduate and undergraduate courses.

North Dakota
Mark Krumm

Achievement: For being at the forefront of audiology telehealth technology to serve individuals living in rural areas. Through grant projects, audiology equipment has been validated and prototyped for use in telehealth technology, resulting in the first integration of otoacoustic emission measures, puretone responses, auditory brainstem response measures, videotoscopy and tympanometric procedures via the telehealth model.

Tennessee
Patricia Flynn Allen

Achievement: For outstanding contributions in clinical education, advocacy, and program administration in acquired pediatric brain injury and, specifically, for managing and implementing an Educational Personnel Training Grant focused on Acquired Pediatric Brain Injury.

Wisconsin
Linda Carpenter

Achievement: For efforts to inspire student interaction in learning by working collaboratively with speech-language pathology students to launch an 18 month project termed the Contextual Test of Articulation.