Faculty
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Sheri Berkeley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, received her Ph.D. from George Mason University in 2007. Dr. Berkeley has eight years of special education teaching experience at every level pre-K through secondary school including: resource, self-contained, inclusion, and instructional coach positions. Currently, her research interests include issues related to improving instruction for secondary students with learning disabilities and students at risk for learning problems including: reading, learning strategies, and responsiveness to intervention. 536 Aderhold Hall |
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Richard T. Boon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Lilly Teaching Fellow (2006-2008), received his Ph.D. from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia in Special Education. In 1996, he earned his B.S. degree, while in 1998 he completed his M.S. degree both from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Boon was a high school special education teacher in Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia and worked as an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University. More recently, he was the Assistive Technology Coordinator for the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) also known as the Training and Technical Assistance Center (T/TAC) at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Currently, Dr. Boon is an Assistant Professor of Special Education in the College of Education at The University of Georgia. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in special education (i.e., instructional methods and special education technology) and supervises both practicum and student teaching experiences. His areas of professional interest include: evidence-based strategy instruction, differentiation of instruction and instructional accommodations, special education technology, and inclusion. He has also published in such journals as The Journal of Special Education Technology, Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, Remedial and Special Education, and Education and Treatment of Children. In addition, Dr. Boon has presented at a variety of local, state, national, and international conferences on evidence-based instructional strategies to facilitate inclusive classroom instruction using technology-based applications. Finally, Dr. Boon has been invited for a visiting professorship to provide a seminar entitled, “Inclusive Education in the United States: Historical Perspectives, Practices, and Strategies for Students with and without Disabilities” by Dr. Carmen Alba Pastor, Jefe del Programa de Educación Especial y Tecnología Educativa and Profesora Titular de Tecnología Educativa in the Departamento de Didáctica y Organización Escolar at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). (706) 542-3423 |
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Anne Cordes Bothe, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Associate Professor, Department Head. Areas of Specialization: Fluency and stuttering; research design and research methods; treatment efficacy and outcomes. (706) 542-0436 |
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Tom J. Clees, Ph.D., received his doctorate in Behavioral Disabilities/Special Education from The University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholars Grant in 2002-2003, during which time he studied special education policy in The Republic of Ireland, focusing on inclusion and transition services. Dr. Clees' is past Coordinator of Special Education, and has served as co-chair of the College of Education Task Force on Multicultural Education. His areas of research and instruction include: Self-management; post-school transition; operant learning theories and applied behavioral analysis; single-subject and small research designs; behavioral disorders; and social skills. (706) 542-4577 |
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Liang Chen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Areas of Specialization: Language development and disorders, Bilingualism, Clinical and Applied Linguistics. Final Degree Obtained: University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2005. (706) 542-4566 |
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Albert De Chicchis, Ph.D., CCC-A, Associate Professor and Program Director Areas of Specialization: Auditory electrophysiology, acoustic immittance, and otoacoustic emissions in ears with normal hearing and hearing impaired with an emphasis in aging. (706) 542-4582 |
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Alicia B. Davis, Ph.D., Academic Professional Associate, received her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Her areas of interest and specialization are early childhood special education, moderate/severe disabilities, and distance education. She teaches graduate and undergraduate coursework in the SETWEB program. (706) 542-4237 |
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Nancy Dellaria, CCC-SLP, Supervisor in Speech-Language Pathology • Supervises graduate clinicians in clinical practicum and teaches clinical seminar (CRS) (706) 542-4594 |
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Sue Fillingim Ford, M.A., CCC-SLP received her master's degree in speech-language pathology from the University of Tennessee in 1985 and her bachelor's degree in speech-language pathology from Auburn University in 1982. She has worked in a variety of settings including the public school systems, hospitals, and private practice. Since joining the faculty at UGA in 1996, she has supervised graduate clinicians in practicum and has taught clinical seminar (CRS). In addition, she teaches two graduate level courses entitled CMSD 6870/Dysphagia and CMSD 6750/Voice Disorders. She is currently a member of the American Speech/Language Hearing Association (ASHA), Georgia Speech/Language Hearing Association (GSHA), and the Georgia Supervisory Network. (706) 542-8414 |
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Patrick Finn, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education at the University of Georgia, Athens. Prior to this, he was a faculty member in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He received his BA (Hons) in psychology from York University, Toronto, Canada, his MS in speech-language pathology from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and his PhD in speech and hearing sciences from the University of California at Santa Barbara. His main research interest is the development of a framework for the scientific evaluation of treatment. Throughout most of his career, he has focused this interest on the communication disorder of stuttering; but more recently, he has broadened this focus to include the concept of critical thinking and its application to evidence-based practice. His publications have included research on measurement issues related to stuttering treatment outcome; investigations of conceptual and methodological issues related to long-term recovery from stuttering; and, most recently, the development of critical thinking skills in students and clinicians. Currently, he is writing a book on critical thinking and its applications to evidence-based practice. He was recently appointed as an associate editor for the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and he has also served as an associate editor for the Journal of Fluency Disorders and just completed a 3-year term as a member of the Research and Scientific Affairs committee of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and served as its liaison to the Advisory Committee on Evidence-Based Practice. |
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Cecil Fore III, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Associate Graduate Coordinator, specializes in Assessment techniques for students from diverse populations and inclusion. He received his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University. Dr. Fore's most recent research is in the areas of cognitive executive decision making skills for persons with mild disabilities in relations to positive work outcomes. He also has researched issues and ideas in urban special education. For the past two years, Dr. Fore has worked with school systems and teachers on developing effective techniques on including students with disabilities in general education classrooms in Alabama. Dr. Fore collaborates with other leaders in the department with Project WINning Ways in establishing professional development and training for regular classroom teachers on inclusion issues. Dr. Fore's other research areas are urban special education and the use of technology in the classroom. (706) 542-4603 |
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David L. Gast, Ph.D., Professor, received his Ph.D. in child development and child psychology from the University of Kansas in 1975 with a concentration in mental retardation and severe behavior disorders. In addition to teaching courses in applied behavior analysis, instructional methods for children functioning in the moderate-severe range of mental retardation, single subject research methodology, and autism spectrum disorders, he directs a federally funded project (Collaborative Personnel Preparation in Autism Project, COPPA Project) to prepare teachers at the graduate level to work with children with autism spectrum disorders. Information on this cooperative teacher education program with Gwinnett Co., Cobb Co., Forsyth Co. and Clarke Co. Public Schools can be found on the departmental website. Dr. Gast also directs a service-learning Study Abroad in Ireland program in cooperation with the COPE Foundation that serves individuals with developmental disabilities and their families in Cork, Ireland. Between 1995 and 2005 he directed UGA’s Study Abroad in Peru program in cooperation with Centro Ann Sullivan del Peru. Dr. Gast's areas of interest include international special education, behavioral methods of instruction, single-subject research methodology, and instructional strategies that facilitate observational and incidental learning. Recent publications (2000-2006, N= 20) with his current and former students on such topics as observational and incidental learning by children with autism, computer-based multimedia instruction, visual activity schedules to facilitate independence, leisure skill instruction, and reinforcer preference assessment procedures have appeared in such journals as Journal of Special Education, Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, Journal of Early Intervention, Journal of Autism and Development Disorders, Exceptionality, Mental Retardation, Therapeutic Recreation Journal, Journal of Physical and Developmental Disabilities, and Education and Treatment in Developmental Disabilities. Dr. Gast is particularly interested in recruiting graduate students from special education and related fields (psychology, child and family development, communication science disorders) who have experience with children with autism spectrum disorders and an interest in applied research. (706) 542-5069 |
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Erik B. Greene, Academic Professional Associate, received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1999, with specialty in Emotional/Behavioral Disorders. He is currently co-coordinating the online Special Education Training on the Web (SETWEB) Program in the Dept. of Communication Sciences & Special Education since the summer of 2005. Dr. Greene recently moved from Oregon, where he taught in a rural school district on the Oregon Coast, teaching students in resource, self contained, and young adult program settings. He also completed the Educational Leadership Program at the University of Oregon in 2003. Areas of interest include improving social skills among students with emotional/behavioral disorders, and online education for teachers interested in special education training. Phone: 706-542-1315 |
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Noel Gregg, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Research Professor at The University of Georgia, Director of the University of Georgia Regents’ Center for Learning Disorders (Department of Psychology, Franklin College of Arts and Science) and Research Chair, Georgia Alternative Media Access Center. She received her Ph.D. in Communication Disorders from Northwestern University, Illinois. Her areas of specialization include adolescents and adults with learning disabilities and AD/HD, accommodations, alternative media, assessment, written language disorders, and measurement validity. She has been a national expert witness for several key legal cases pertaining to accommodating adults with learning disabilities and AD/HD on high-stakes tests. In addition, she has been involved with several international research projects (Australia, Spain, Germany, and Israel) related to the underlying language and cognitive processes influencing the performance of adolescents and adults with LD and AD/HD. She has published widely, and her new book - Research-Based Best Practice: Assessing and Accommodating the Adolescent and Adult Populations with Learning Disabilities and AD/HD is currently in press. (706)-542-4589 |
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Cheri Hoy, Ph.D., Professor, is currently Associate Dean for Faculty, Administration, and Finance in the College of Education. Her research interests and expertise in the area of learning disabilities include assessment, adult issues, social/emotional/behavioral adjustment, and mathematics. She is a consistent coordinator to the professional literature. In addition to her books, her work appears in the publications Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, Learning Disabilities Quarterly, Rehabilitation Education, and other refereed journals. She has been actively involved at both the state and national levels in professional organizations, especially the Division for Learning Disabilities (CEC), National Joint Committee for Learning Disabilities and Learning Disabilities Association. Dr. Hoy completed her Ph.D. work at Northwestern University after teaching several years in public schools. Her classroom teaching experience has been with both regular and special education elementary and middle school students. (706) 542-3818 |
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Jennifer H. Lindstrom, Ph.D., Assistant Research Scientist, received her degree from the University of Georgia in 2006. Her academic emphasis is special education, with specific focus upon adolescents and young adults with high incidence disabilities. Lindstrom’s research focuses primarily on transition issues, accommodations, assessment, and students with high incidence disabilities in secondary and postsecondary settings. She has published articles and book chapters on the diagnosis of learning disabilities in the adult population, accommodations, and interpreting test scores. Lindstrom has participated in various research projects related to testing accommodations on large scale assessments. She has presented her work at numerous state, national, and international conferences and has published in peer-reviewed journals. (706) 542-1320 |
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Suneeti Nathani Iyer, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor Areas of specialization include infant vocalizations, hearing loss, acoustic analysis, treatment of speech sound disorders, child language.
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Holly Kaplan, Ph.D., CCC-A, Clinical Supervisor in Audiology • Supervises graduate clinicians in clinical practicum (706) 542-2389 |
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Yolanda Keller-Bell, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Program. She earned her doctorate in Speech and Hearing Science, with a concentration in Speech-Language Pathology from The Ohio State University. Dr. Keller-Bell completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities Research Center at the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on language development in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, such as Down syndrome or Fragile X syndrome. She has also examined speech and language development in children from culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Currently, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses focusing on assessment, language disorders, and augmentative and alternative communication. (706) 542-3006 |
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John Langone, Dr. John Langone is currently Professor of Communication Sciences and Special Education at the University of Georgia. He is Past President of the Technology and Media Division (TAM) of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). Dr. Langone's research includes the development of technology solutions for use in higher education, including digital video examples of effective teaching practices special educators. He also investigates the effects of technology-based instruction with digital video anchors on the learning of students who have disabilities. In addition, Dr. Langone has studied effective and efficient methods for teaching individuals with disabilities and for helping special educators to become more effective teachers. He has been awarded the Outstanding Faculty member of the Year Award and the Excellence in Teaching Award by the Kappa Delta Epsilon Educational Honor Society of the College of Education. Dr. Langone has been awarded a number of federally funded grants in the areas of secondary education/transition to adulthood, special education technology, computer-based video supported instruction, and web-based instruction for teachers. He is a consistent contributor to the professional literature, authoring three books and numerous chapters and articles. (706) 542-4588 |
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Linda Lauderdale, M.Ed., CCC-SLP, Supervisor in Speech-Language Pathology • Supervises graduate clinicians in clinical practicum at Oglethorpe County public schools preschool program (706) 743-3751 |
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Casey Monnier, M.A., CCC-SLP, Supervisor in Speech Language-Pathology
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Allison Nealy, is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education. She also serves as the Undergraduate Program Coordinator and Faculty Advisor for the Student Council for Exceptional Children. She holds a Doctorate in Reading Education and a Master’s in Special Education both from the University of Georgia. Her undergraduate degree was in Psychology from the University of Vermont. She has taught special education for a total of nine years in Clarke County that included time at the Rutland Comprehensive Academy, Clarke Middle School and Clark Central High School in addition to previously teaching kindergarten in a private school. She teaches undergraduate, graduate, WEBCT and SETWEB courses, coordinates the placement and supervision of special education teacher candidates, and facilitates student service to local organizations that serve children and adults with disabilities. 543 Aderhold Hall |
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Judith Oliver, M.Ed., Instructor Judi Oliver’s focus is on the study of the history, culture, and language of (706) 583-0725 |
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Carol Ann Raymond M.Ed., Ed.S., CCC-SLP, Speech and Hearing Clinic Director • Supervises clinic supervisors and office staff (706) 542-4559 |
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Alice Sanderson, M.Ed., CCC-A, Clinical Coordinator in Audiology • Coordinates audiology graduate clinical practicum (706) 542-2371 |
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Rebecca J. Shisler Marshall , Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator Areas of Specialization: Dr. Marshall's primary research interests include facilitating the recovery process in individuals with aphasia or right hemisphere disorder. This can take many different forms including group treatment, auditory attention, and mind body medicine in both the stroke model and healthy aging. All aspects focus on the cognitive disorders (such as Language and Attention deficits) that occur after brain damage. Due to the clinical aspect of her research, she works closely with Shepherd Center in Atlanta and the Mind Body Institute at Athens Regional Medical Center. (706) 583-0737 |
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Cynthia O. Vail, Cynthia O. Vail, Ph.D., Associate Professor, specializes in early childhood special education (birth-8 years). She received her Ph.D. from Florida State University and has co-directed two masters level teacher preparation grants and three leadership doctoral grants all with an early childhood special education focus or component. Along with early intervention, her other areas of expertise include collaboration among professionals and families, behavior disorders, autism, and play as it relates to young children with disabilities. Her current research relates to collaboration at various levels: co-teaching in higher education; Local Interagency Coordinating Councils and their interface with State Councils; and promoting inclusive collaborative preschool environments for young children with disabilities. Dr. Vail collaborates with other leaders in early intervention through a multi-faceted personnel training project (Project SCEI's - www.education.gsu.edu/sceis/index.html) funded through Georgia's Babies Can't Wait. Her contributions include developing an evaluation to determine the effectiveness of inservice training, conducting needs assessments of early intervention personnel and capacity of universities to teach needed content, and evaluating the impact of the higher education consortium in early intervention. This year she will coordinate an early intervention Research Institute. In 1998, Dr. Vail received a Governors appointment to Georgia's State Interagency Coordinating Council for Early Intervention Programs (SICC). She was reappointed and voted to Chair the SICC in 2002. She currently serves in this leadership role. Dr. Vail advises students in the areas of behavioral disorders, early childhood special education and interrelated. (706) 542-4578 |
Adjunct Faculty John E. Riski, Ph.D., Director, Speech Pathology Laboratory, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta; Fellow, ASHA |
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