State Clinical Achievement Awards 2008

Kentucky

N. Carolyn Kisler
Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs

For statewide leadership with diagnostic audiologists to implement follow-up procedures for universal newborn hearing screening, as well as for her role developing "Just in Time" materials for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Early Hearing Detection and Intervention program to benefit primary health care providers and parents.

Louisiana

John A. Tetnowski
University of Louisiana-Lafayette

For providing professional workshops to enhance training in fluency disorders and for sponsoring support groups for individuals who stutter and their families.

Mississippi

Judy W. Hearne
Speech-Language Pathologist

For facilitating the knowledge and understanding of parents, educators, and professionals in helping children with hearing-impairment.

Nebraska

Kenya Taylor
University of Nebraska-Kearney

For creating and coordinating statewide initiatives to provide public education on hearing loss prevention and conservation in predominantly rural populations.

New York

William Shapiro
New York University Medical Center

For contributions to the field of cochlear implantation, specifically, to the area of implantation of auditory brainstem devices in individuals who present with profound deafness secondary to acoustic neuroma removal.

Ohio

Susan Givler
University of Cincinnati

For leadership to establish an approach for working with financially-disadvantaged inner city high school students and underrepresented college students to attract them to allied health careers, particularly in communication sciences and disorders.

South Carolina

Leah Chisolm Gore
District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties

For advancing clinical service and best practices in speech-language pathology for pre-schoolers with autism and their families.

Tennessee

Lynne F. Harmon
Parent-Child Services Group, Inc.

For her leadership in facilitating legislation within a coalition to assure insurance coverage for communication intervention for Tennessee's children with autism and for statewide efforts to raise awareness of preferred practice patterns in service to children with autism.

Wisconsin

Casey O'Keefe
Cardinal Stritch University

For an innovative partnership between the university and a Head Start program that serves as a model for the mutual benefit of preschool children who are at-risk for low academic achievement, for early childhood teachers who serve them, for pre-professional university students, and for university curriculum and program development.