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Professional Issues

Budget Short Falls, Healthcare Reform, Economic Turmoil, Trillion Dollar Deficits!!!!!!!!!!!!!

July 6, 2010

Tim Starling, Division Director, Bilingual Therapies
Tim Starling is currently the Division Director of Bilingual Therapies. Tim received his introduction to healthcare in 2000 as a recruiter who placed neurological, orthopedic, and general surgeons in some of the country’s leading hospital systems. He later joined Soliant Health where he pioneered the schools division that places speech, [...]

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ASHA’s Newest Division: Division 17 Global Issues in Communication Science and Related Disorders

June 2, 2010

Marlene B. Salas-Provance, Ph.D., F-CCC-SLP, Director of the Program in Communication Disorders, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Dr. Salas-Provance currently serves as Director of the Program in Communication Disorders at New Mexico State University.  She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from New Mexico State University, her doctorate in speech-language pathology from the [...]

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The Bilingual Clinician and ASHA’s Division 14: Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically-Diverse (CLD) Populations

February 8, 2010

Nancy Lewis, M.S. CCC-SLP. Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist, Denver, CO
Nancy Lewis, M.S. CCC-SLP has been a pediatric speech-language pathologist for 30 years. Currently, she leads a Bilingual Consultation Team for a large school district in the metro-Denver area, providing bilingual assessments (English-Spanish) and consultation to schools regarding English language learners. Her areas of expertise have [...]

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Supervising Bilingual Speech-Language Aides and Paraprofessionals

November 2, 2009

Sandra Márquez, M.A. CCC-SLP, Bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist, Chicago, IL
Sandra Márquez is a Mexican-American native of Chicago. She earned her degree from Saint Xavier University in the Communication Disorders undergraduate program. Prior to graduate school, Sandra spent one year as a speech-language paraprofessional in the Chicago Public Schools. Sandra went on to receive her master’s [...]

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