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Karen Clark - UT Dallas Callier Center for Communication Disorders
Credentials: M.A., CCC-A
Other Affiliations: NCHAM
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BIO: Karen Clark is the Director of the Education Division at the Callier Center for Communication Disorders at the University of Texas at Dallas. Responsibilities include supervision of the deaf education early intervention and preschool programs for the Dallas Independent School District. Karen consults with the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM) in the area of early intervention. She has an M. A. Degree and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology and holds Texas State Certification in Education of the Deaf and Early Childhood Education. |
Claire Sullivan - Georgia Pines
Credentials: MEd. Teacher of the Deaf
Other Affiliations: Georgia Hands & Voices
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BIO: Clare began teaching at the Florida School for the Deaf in 1974. Her career changed to the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf in 1980. While there she worked as a primary teacher, middle school teacher, Coordinator of the Language Lab and Supervisor of the Preschool and Elementary Departments. Since 1999 she has focused on early intervention as the Program Manager of Georgia PINES (Parent Infant Network for Educational Services). Georgia PINES provides services in Natural Environments with an emphasis on training families of newly diagnosed children birth to five years of age with hearing loss and/or vision impairments. She developed Georgia's Early Hearing Orientation Visits, works closely with Georgia's EHDI Program, the State Advisory Committee for Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and the State Interagency Coordinating Council. She is a founding Board Member of Georgia Hands and Voices and currently serves on Georgia's UNHS Stakeholder's Committee.
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Cindy Lawrence - Indiana School for the Deaf
Credentials: Outreach Director
MA-CCC-A
Other Affiliations: ASHA, ICASE (Indiana Council of Administrators of Special Education), First Steps
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BIO: Cindy began her career first working for an otologist, then in the Indianapolis Public School where she served as an itinerant teacher and Educational Audiologist. She currently serves as Director of the Outreach Department. She works closely with the Department of Education, local Directors of Special Educaiton, First Steps, and other agencies providing services for deaf and hard of hearing children as well as administrating the department. As a licensed educational audiologist at ISD since 1986, she has served as the preschool and elementary school audiologist, Director of Assessment Services and now as the Director of Outreach. Outreach services are statewide and serve children and families from birth through 21 years of age. |
