•    Assistive Technology and Augmentative Communication Consultant: Assessments, (person, school, family centered)

1994-present

•    Consultant, Autism and Complex Communication Needs. Frederick County Maryland Public Schools

1996 – present

•    Consultant (AAC). Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education and Cecil County Public Schools

2001-2010

•    Consultant, Students with Complex Communication Needs, Washington County Maryland Public Schools

2002-present

•    Member National Academy of Sciences Committee on Educational Interventions for Children with Autism

1999-2001

•    Contractor, Maryland Disability Law Center

2006-2007

•    Focus on Autism and other Developmental Disabilities, Consulting Editor

2004- present

•    Disability and Rehabilitation, Consulting Editor

2009-2010

•    Autism Projects Coordinator, Johns Hopkins Center for Technology in Education

1996-1999

•    Faculty, Johns Hopkins University Department of Special Education, Teaching Students with Autism, graduate program, curriculum and course development, instructor.

1995-2001

•    Author, Meaningful Exchanges for People with Autism: An introduction to AAC, Woodbine House Publishing

2005

•    PODDS for Students with Autism. Published in Perspectives in AAC

June, 2009

•    Autism and AAC. Exceptional Parent

April 2008

•    Guest Editor, American Speech and Hearing Association, Division of AAC, Perspectives in AAC: Autism

•    Author: AAC and Autism, Current practices, future directions, Perspectives in AAC.

May 2007

•    Communication Power for People with Autism, Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, Fall, 1998

1998

•    The effect of an augmentative communication intervention on the communication, behavior and academic program of an adolescent with autism. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities

Fall, 2001

•    AAC Supports for Students with Autism: Making the Least Harmful Assumptions, Closing the Gap

2007

•    AAC Supports for Students with Autism in Group Instruction, Closing the Gap

2004

•    Mentoring teachers as communication partners using Video Self-Modeling

2010

•    The implementation (designing communication overlays, taking baseline and intervention data) of a computer-based eye gaze communication system for an adolescent with Rett Syndrome

2007-present

•    The effect of high tech devices on the initiations and responses of resistant communicator with complex communication needs

2007-present

•    The effect of photographic narratives on increase pretend play in young children with complex communication needs and autism

2007-present

•    The relationship between teacher belief systems and literacy supports in classrooms of students with complex communication needs

2006

•    Shared adapted literacy: Tools and Strategies

2006

•    Increasing engagement of students with autism and complex communication needs through adapted literature

2003-2005

•    Teaching parents of children with autism Picture Communication Symbols as a Natural Language to Decrease Levels of Family Stress

1994-1995

•    Anne Carlsen Center for Children with Significant Disabilities, Jamestown, ND. Autism and Literacy : Unlocking Language

May, 2010

•    Washoe County Board of Education, Reno, NV. Autism and Communication: Research to Practice

April, 2010

•    AGOSCI National Tour. Taught seminars on Autism and Communication: Research to Practice in 7 Australian cities: Melbourne, Tasmania, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Townsville, Sydney.

March, 2010

•    Hitmessen: Technology Conference of Denmark

Fall, 2008

•    Johns Hopkins University

1995-2002

•    Virginia State Department of Education

Summer, 2009

•    Washington State Department of Education, Summer Curriculum Training

Summer, 2007

•    Texas State Department of Education

Summer 2004, Fall, 2009

•    Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence: Workshops and Teleconferences

Spring, 2003; Fall, 2006

•    Literacy Instruction for Students with Significant Disabilities and Complex Communication Needs, Course taught by Karen Erickson and David Koppenhaver, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

June, 2010

•    Systematic Social Skills Instruction for Students with Autism, seminar given by Dr. Scott Bellini

Spring, 2010

•    Pragmatically Organized Dynamic Displays, PODDS. Two day training by Gayle Porter, SLP at Maryland AT COOP.

Fall, 2009

•    Pivotal Response Treatments, given by Drs. Robert and Lynn Koegel, 2 day training culminating in Level I certification

Summer, 2009

•    Partner Assisted Scanning: 3 day training by Linda Burkhart

Spring, 2009

•    Write from the Start, A full day training in adapted writing given by Karen Erickson, ISAAC conference, Montreal, Canada,

Summer, 2008

•    Assessing research in Autism and AAC, full day workshop given by Ralf Schlosser and Oliver Wendt, ISAAC, Montreal Canada

Summer 2008

•    AAC and Young Children with Complex Communication Needs, full day workshop given by Janice Light, Penn State University.

Summer, 2008

•    Council for Exceptional Children

1999-present

•    International Society for Augmentative and Augmentative Communication and United States Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication

2002-present

•    Maryland State Teacher Association and National Education Association

1988-present

•    American Association of University Women

2001-present

•    United States Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication.