2007 State Clinical Achievement Awards

District of Columbia

Amy Georgeadis
Senior Speech-Language Pathologist
National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH)

For her work in the area of telepractice to provide services with positive outcomes and meeting patient satisfaction.

Kansas

Elaine Fasulo
Special Services Instructional Resource Teacher
Olathe School District

For the development of informal assessments and materials used collaboratively by classroom teachers and speech-language pathologists in the design of IEP objectives to ensure that speech-language goals and strategies align with the assessed indicators and curriculum at each grade level.

Nebraska

Jeff Hoffman
Health Program Manager, Nebraska Newborn Hearing Screening Program
State of Nebraska, Department of Health and Human Services

For his management of the Nebraska Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program which resulted in 99.4% of newborn babies receiving hearing screening during birth admission.

New York

Jaclyn B. Spitzer, PHD
Professor of Clinical Audiology
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons Department of Otolaryngology

For research on the clinical applications of the bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) to establish patient-specific candidacy and fitting guidelines for the device and for specific achievements with patients experiencing single-sided deafness, an area of intervention that has been frequently overlooked.

Wisconsin

Charles A. Osborne
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

For his role in developing a Meta-Cognitive/Linguistic Approach to the Management of Stuttering in Children (MCLAMS-C) ages three through seven, demonstrating the efficacy and using it to guide student clinicians' development of skills and confidence needed for providing effective fluency treatment.