2004 State Clinical Achievement Awards

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.