Schedule & Speakers - Summer Seminars 2024
Daily Schedule
| 8:30 am | Welcome and Introduction |
| 8:45 – 10:00 am | Instruction |
| 10:00 – 10:15 am | Break |
| 10:15 – 12:00 pm | Instruction |
| 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 2:45 pm | Instruction |
| 2:45 – 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:00 – 4:45 pm | Instruction |
| 4:45 – 5:00 pm | Closing Remarks/Questions |
Speakers
Caroline Musselwhite
Dr. Caroline Musselwhite is an assistive technology specialist with more than 30 years of experience working with children and adolescents with severe disabilities, in a variety of settings, including Head Start, developmental day programs, and the public schools. She has also taught courses at several universities, including West Virginia University, and Western Carolina University.
Dr. Musselwhite has authored a number of textbooks and “how-to” books on a range of topics, including Emergent Literacy Success, Communication Programming for Persons with Severe Handicaps, and Reading Activities Project for Older Students (R.A.P.S.). She has also authored a number of software programs (Write to Talk, Social Scripts) and books (Learning to Work) for youth with disabilities. She has presented thousands of workshops throughout the world, and is a founding member of the Board of Directors for the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC).
Honors include: Foundation Fellowship (West Virginia University), Educator of the Year (Association for Retarded Citizens, North Carolina), Honors of the Association, (North Carolina Augmentative Communication Association), and DiCarlo Outstanding Clinician Award (North Carolina Speech-Language-Hearing Association), and ISAAC Fellow.
Katie Squires
Dr. Katie Squires is a Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Central Michigan University, where she specializes in child language and literacy, specifically in the area of dyslexia. As a former elementary teacher who became a speech-language pathologist, Squires has spent the last 28 years working with preschool and school-age children. She has authored peer-reviewed journal articles, spoken at state and national conferences, and co-authored a chapter in the Handbook of Language and Literacy. Dr. Squires is a proud graduate of Utah State University.
Kathleen Scaler Scott
Kathleen Scaler Scott, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BCS-SCF is a speech-language pathologist, ASHA Fellow, Board Certified Specialist in Stuttering, Cluttering, and Fluency; and Professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at Misericordia University. Dr. Scaler Scott’s research and clinical interests include cluttering, atypical disfluencies and disfluency with concomitant diagnoses. She is author of Fluency Plus: Managing Fluency Disorders in Individuals with Multiple Diagnoses, a textbook and treatment manual focusing on understanding, evaluating and treating cluttering, stuttering, and atypical disfluencies along with concomitant disorders. She is also co-author of the newly released Second Edition of the Source for Stuttering and Cluttering along with Glen Tellis. Dr. Scaler Scott was the first Coordinator of the International Cluttering Association and the 2018 recipient of the Deso Weis Award for Excellence in the Field of Cluttering.
Daphne Hartzheim
Dr. Daphne Hartzheim is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education Department and is part of the Integrative Assessment Team at the Sorensen Legacy Foundation Center for Clinical Excellence. Daphne is a dually certified and licensed speech-language pathologist (SLP) and behavior analyst (BCBA). At Utah State University, she assesses and treats individuals with autism spectrum disorder and other speech and language disorders. She is a clinical supervisor for USU students on campus and enjoys shaping their clinical skills to become the next generation of speech-language pathologists. After working as an SLP for a few years, Daphne returned to Utah State University for a Ph.D. in Disabilities Disciplines where she was able to refine her clinical and research skills. She has conducted research that has been published and presented across the world. Her passion is in working with children with autism spectrum disorders. Together with their families she hopes to increase everyone’s ability to be as independent as possible through increasing their ability to communicate either with words, or alternative methods. Daphne sees communication as a basic human right and will explore creative ways to make that possible.