2012 Fall Conference
September 21-22
Asheville Renaissance Hotel
Asheville, NC
Hotel Information
Asheville Renaissance Hotel
Room Rates: $129
Hotel Deadline: August 21, 2012
Reservations Toll Free:
800-468-3571
Reservations Local:
506-474-2009
Online Hotel Reservations:
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GUEST ROOM CHECK-IN/CHECK-OUT TIME:
Check-in Time: 4:00 PM. Check-out Time: 11:00 AM
All guests arriving before the scheduled time will be accommodated, as rooms are available.
Featured Audiology Speakers
Robyn Cox
Robyn Cox received a Ph.D. in Audiology from Indiana University (1974). She is currently a Professor and the Director of the Hearing Aid Research Laboratory at the University of Memphis. Her research interests are in improving hearing aid fitting procedures for older adults, and studying how to optimize fitting success. She publishes and presents papers about hearing aid issues.
Douglas L. Beck
Dr. Beck earned his master's degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1984) and his doctorate from the University of Florida at Gainesville (2000). His career began at the House Ear Institute (LA) in cochlear implant research and intraoperative cranial nerve monitoring. Five years later he was appointed Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Director of Audiology at Saint Louis University. Eight years later he co-founded a private audiology-based hearing aid dispensing practice in St Louis. In 1999, Dr. Beck became President and Editor-In-Chief of Audiology Online, SpeechPathology.com and HealthyHearing.com. After joining Oticon Inc. in 2005 as Director of Professional Relations, he was also appointed Web Content Editor for the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) in 2008. Dr. Beck is among the most prolific authors in audiology with more than 100 published articles and book chapters and more than 500 abstracts, interviews and op-ed pieces written for the AAA
Debra Abel
Deb Abel has vast experience in areas of business and practice management. She spent 13 years in private practice in Alliance, OH, after moving an existing practice from the Allicane Eye and Ear Clinic where she was employed for 14 years. Previous to serving as a Board member-at-large of the Academy, Dr. Abel served as the chair of the Academy's Coding and Practice Management Committee, was the Director of Reimbursement and Practice Compliance for the Academy and is now the Senior Education Specialist, Business Practices; She is also associated with a private practice within Arch Health Partners in Poway, CA, where she provides audiologic services on a limited schedule.
Featured Speech-Language Speakers
James L. Coyle, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BRS-S, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Coyle teaches Dysphagia, Head and Neck Anatomy, and Medical Speech Pathology in the CSD Department's MA program, and train the MA students in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's hospitals while seeing patients 3 days each week. Dr. Coyle helped develop the department's clinical doctorate in SLP program because he believes that Medical SLP's need specialized education and training in the manner that physicians are trained.
David A. Shapiro, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
Dr. Shapiro is a Fellow of ASHA, a Board Recognized Fluency Specialist, and the Robert Lee Madison Distinguished Professor at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC. Providing clinical services for people who stutter for over 35 years, Dr. Shapiro is a regular presenter at national and international conferences and has taught workshops, provided clinical service, and conducted research in six continents. His book, Stuttering Intervention: A Collaborative Journey to Fluency Freedom, is in its 2nd edition (2011, PRO-ED, www.proedinc.com) and continues to find a wide international audience. Dr. Shapiro is actively involved in the International Fluency Association (IFA) and International Stuttering Association (ISA) and received IFA’s 2006 Award of Distinction for Outstanding Clinician presented in Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Shapiro is a person who stutters, has two young adult children with his wife, Kay, and lives near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Nancy B. Swigert, M.A., CCC-SLP, BRS-S, Central Baptist Hospital, Lexington, KY
Ms. Swigert is the director of Speech-Language Pathology and Respiratory Care at Central Baptist Hospital, an acute care facility in Lexington, KY. She maintains her involvement in the provision of clinical services through supervision of new staff and provision of diagnostic services to in-patients and out-patients.
Her main interests are in the area of pediatric and adult dysphagia. She has authored seven publications with Linguisystems. She lectures extensively in the areas of dysphagia and motor speech disorders.
She received her master’s degree from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She is a former President of the Kentucky Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Council of State Association Presidents, and was President of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 1998. She currently chairs the Board for Specialty Recognition in Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders.