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Nickola Wolf Nelson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Professor,
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Associate Dean for
Research in the College of Health and Human Services, Western
Michigan University. Dr. Nelson received her bachelor's, master's
and doctoral degrees from Wichita State University. She is the
author of Childhood Language Disorders in Context: Infancy Through
Adolescence, Second Edition (1998 Allyn & Bacon), and Planning
Individualized Speech and Language Intervention Programs, Second
Edition (1989, PRO-ED), as well as numerous articles and chapters
on classroom-based language intervention and related topics. Dr.
Nelson began her professional career as a school clinician in
Kansas and also served as a speech-language consultant specialist
for Berrien County Intermediate School District in Michigan. She
has been a member of the faculty at Western Michigan University
since 1981. Dr. Nelson and her husband live on a lake in Three
Rivers, Michigan. They enjoy gardening, boating, and entertaining
their children, grandchildren, and extended families on the
lake.
Elena Plante, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is Professor and
Head of the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at
The University of Arizona in Tucson, USA. She is a fellow both of
The University of Arizona's College of Science and of the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Her areas of research interest
include language learning and assessment practices. Dr. Plante has
been using neuroimaging to explore the brain bases of language and
cognition for the last 2 decades. She has active national and
international collaborations in the areas of neuroimaging,
language, and learning.
Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, Sc.D., CCC-SLP, Brewer
Smith Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication
Disorders and Sciences at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee,
North Carolina, USA. She was affiliated with the Harold Goodglass
Aphasia Research Center and Boston University School of Medicine
for 32 years, was a Research Scientist at the National Center for
Neurogenic Communication Disorders at The University of Arizona,
and a Research Professor at the University of North Carolina. Dr.
Helm-Estabrooks is board certified by the Academy of Neurologic
Communication Disorder (ANCDS). Her awards include American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and ANCDS Honors, and
the Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award. She is an ASHA Fellow
and has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles, 7 books, 21
chapters, and 6 standardized tests.
Gillian Hotz, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is The Director of
the KiDZ Neuroscience Center, Research Professor, Department of
Neurosurgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in
Miami, Florida, USA. Dr. Hotz is Principal Investigator on a
variety of funded research projects for acute care and
rehabilitation of children with traumatic brain injury and injury
prevention. She has presented at local, national, and international
conferences; has published numerous papers on the topic of
traumatic brain injury; and is coauthor of the Brief Test of Head
Injury (with Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, PRO-ED, 1991). Dr. Hotz is a
member of a number of advisory groups, including the Florida Injury
Prevention Advisory Council and the Sarah Jane Brain Project/The
National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Plan.
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