Overview
My overarching career goal is to improve outcomes for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. This work involves families and providers, and interacts with many systems of care. As the director of the Colorado Home Intervention Program (CHIP) for many years, I was in a position to influence the quality of services for infants and toddlers in one state.
Since leaving that position in 2010, I have expanded my reach to enhance systems across the United States, as well as in other countries. This has been done primarily in the higher education world, lecturing and working with local universities in both an academic and research setting.
My intent remains the same: to support individualized assessments and treatments, to promote evidence-based practices, to measure the effectiveness of services, and to improve access to quality services via telehealth. See each tab below for further details on my involvement in these various capacities.
Professional Roles
In addition to my education credentials (BA, Elementary Education, The American University, Washington, DC; graduate coursework in Education of the Hearing-Impaired, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC and University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO; MA, Speech/Language Pathology, University of Denver; PhD, University of Northern Colorado), I hold an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Education and Counseling Psychology and Special Education at the University of British Columbia. I also lecture in the Department of Special Education at the University of Northern Colorado. I have been an Instructor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, as well as a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Colorado Health School of Medicine in Denver, Colorado.
I also hold the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech/Language Pathology and have endorsement as a teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing issued by the Colorado Department of Education. I served as a teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing in an urban school district for many years.
For almost 20 years, I served as the Director of Early Intervention and Education Programs at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind (CSDB), directing the Colorado Home Intervention Program (CHIP) and providing technical assistance to early intervention and preschool programs serving deaf and hard of hearing children statewide.
- Co-Investigator, Effectiveness of Therapy via Telemedicine following Cochlear Implants, National Institutes of Health (1 U01 DC013529-01), University of Colorado, Denver, CO, September, 2013 – present
- Principal Investigator, TeleCITE: Telehealth for Cochlear Implant Therapy Exchange; Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute (National Institutes of Health) 2010 – 2011
- Principal Investigator, Maternal and Child Health Grant for Universal Newborn Hearing; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 2000-2008
- Deaf/Hard of Hearing Adult Role Model Program; Colorado Department of Education 1997-2007
- Colorado Individual Performance Profile-Preschool Level (Pre-CIPP); Colorado Department of Education 1991-2007
- Services to Deafblind Children Birth-5 years; Colorado Department of Education 1991-2007
- Expanding Services to Spanish-Speaking Families; Colorado Commission for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind 2005-2007
- Parent-Centered Services to Later-Identified Children with Hearing Loss; Colorado Department of Education 1998-1999, 2002-2003.
- Case Management for Children with Low Incidence Disabilities; Department of Epidemiology, Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment 1999-2002
- Family-focused Intervention and FAMILY Assessment; Part H Grant, Colorado Department of Education 1989
- FAMILY Assessment for Deafblind Children; Colorado Department of Education 1988-1989