• B.A. The State University of Iowa, 1961 - Speech and Dramatic Arts
• B.A. The George Washington University, 1979 - Speech Pathology and Audiology
• M.A. The George Washington University, 1980 - Speech Pathology

Professional Certification:

• Certificate of Clinical Competence conferred by the American Speech/Language/Hearing Association, 1981

Special Certification:

• Fluency Specialist Certification conferred by the Special Commission on Fluency Disorders, 2000

Licensure:

• Speech-Language Pathologist in the Commonwealth of Virginia

Designed and implemented a computer-aided stuttering treatment program for adults and children, which incorporates electronic measurement systems to provide visual biofeedback, integrating phonatory and respiratory systems. The prototype program was awarded (competitively) $410,000 in Small Business Innovative Research grants by the National Institutes of Health. This in turn resulted in the commercialization of the program under the trademark CAFET. Designed and tested a computer-aided treatment program for voice disorders based on the original CAFET system, released in 1993. These products are currently used in university clinics, private practices, hospital clinics, and school systems throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East.

Designed and tested in clinical research an integrated therapy program for very young stuttering children, in which children receive direct therapy and parents receive counseling in a clinical team environment with the psychologist and speech pathologist.

Research in the areas of: differences in stutterers and non-stutterers phonatory and respiratory functioning in spontaneous speech, normative studies of respiratory/phonatory functioning in normal and voice-disordered populations, attitude change in stutterers post-treatment, clinical data on establishment and maintenance of fluent speech in adolescents and adults, effectiveness of treatment techniques in various voice disorders, including spasmodic dysphonia, paradoxical vocal cord dysfunction, and others.

Training and supervision of graduate student clinicians from local universities, linical fellows, and certified speech pathologists in stuttering and voice disorder treatment methods.

During employment at Catholic University of America, evaluated and provided treatment to children in a developmental research center for language-disordered pre-school children, as well as to D.C. Head Start and to the Kingsbury Lab School.

Primary provider of speech-language services (evaluation and treatment of language/learning disabilities) to language-disordered/emotionally disturbed children and adolescent in-patients of the Dominion Hospital from 1981 to 1996, and to the Oak Valley Center since 1995.

Developed a series of training workshops for the psychiatrists and staff of Dominion Hospital on neurocommunication disorders in emotionally disturbed children. This was eventually extended to a regional workshop sponsored by the Dominion Hospital, for psychologists, social workers, speech pathologists, and nurses.

Training workshops in speech/language disorders testing and treatment for the counselors of the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services.

Research in diagnosis of auditory dyslexia in English-as-a-Second-Language speakers.

Developed intensive reading programs incorporating multisensory and phonemic awareness techniques for the treatment of children and adults with dyslexia. Developed fully integrated curriculum for reading incorporating the Lindamood Auditory Discrimination in Depth (now known as Lindamood Phonemic Sequencing™), Orton-Gillingham, and the Bell Visualizing & Verbalizing™ programs. The adult program is under contract to the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services.

Provide training seminars and hands-on supervision for speech-language pathologists, reading teachers, and LD/resource teachers in use of the integrated reading curriculum.

Reading Editor of “Clinical Connection”, a quarterly journal for Speech-Language Pathologists, published in Alexandria, Virginia

Consultant to the Falls Church City Schools Special Education Department.