EduWorkshops

	Pati King-DeBaun & Caroline Musselwhite
	Scott Marfilius Scott has been working with individuals with disabilities for the past 20 years. The past 14 years has involved implementing assistive technology at various levels. First within an integrated classroom as a classroom teacher, then implementing a district wide system change within a Public School System by assisting their District Wide Team. He continues to assist teams and individuals in assessing students assistive technology needs. His teaching certifications are in Early Childhood Handicap, Cognitive Disabilities, Emotional Disability, and Learning Disability. He also consults with individuals and businesses to determine adaptations that are needed in work place settings. Scott’s focus areas in assistive technology include computer access, and technologies that assist those with cognitive and learning disabilities.
	Ylana Bloom Ylana is a speech pathologist and augmentative communication consultant and has worked for over 20 years with children and adults with a wide range of communication impairments most of whom presented with intellectual and/or multiple disabilities. She spent 10 years as the therapist in charge at the Alice Betteridge School (A division of the Royal Institute of deaf and blind children). From there she moved to the Garfield Barwick School for children with hearing impairments and then spent several years at the Computer Access Technology Service assisting people access technology. At present she is working as a private consultant for her own business called ‘Innovative Programming’. Through this business Ylana provides a range of services including assessment, intervention, staff training, seminars and workshops. Ylana has created a picture library called Softpics and has written ‘Let’s Talk Together – The Great Ideas Manual’ for creating augmentative communication opportunities. She has co-authored several other manuals with Dolly Bhargava. These include: Let’s Read Together – Using commercially available books for children to promote literacy; Let’s Read Together Part 1 – Creating personalised material to promote literacy, Let’s Read Together Part 2 – Creating personalised material to promote literacy; The Participation Through Communication Guide and Let’s Talk To Let’s Talk Together – The Great Ideas Manual for Creating Augmentative Communication Support Update. Ylana has been a frequently invited guest speaker at several national and regional conferences and presented workshops across Australia.
	Dolly Bhargava Dolly Bhargava is a speech language pathologist and an augmentative communication consultant. She has worked with children and adults with intellectual and/or multiple disabilities in a variety of settings, including schools, home, group home, day care centre and day programs. She has worked with government organisations She is currently working at the Alice Betteridge School (A division of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children). She is currently co-authoring a number of manuals with Ylana Bloom on a range of topics related to developing communication and literacy skills for children and adults. They include: Let’s Read Together – Using commercially available books for children to promote literacy; Let’s Read Together Part 1 – Creating personalised material to promote literacy, Let’s Read Together Part 2 – Creating personalised material to promote literacy; The Participation Through Communication Guide and Let’s Talk Together – The Great Ideas Manual for Creating Augmentative Communication Support Update. She has presented seminars with Ylana Bloom nationally.
	Kelly Fonner Kelly Fonner, MS is a self-employed consultant and trainer in the areas of assistive and educational technology. She has been working with individuals with disabilities since the mid 1970s. She has 19 years of experience in assistive technology. Her experiences have been as a teacher assistant, teacher, instructional media specialist and assistive technology consultant in early childhood, preschool and school age programs. She has consulted to university and adult programs concerning access to technology by persons with disabilities. She speaks nationally on a wide range of topics including access, technology integration, AAC, literacy, assessment and implementation strategies. Kelly is also an associate lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in both the Occupational Therapy and Exceptional Education departments. She has taught at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Kelly has a B.S. in special education, an M.S. in educational technology and is currently working towards her Ph.D. in urban education.
	Caroline Musselwhite Dr. Caroline Musselwhite is an assistive technology specialist with more than 20 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 Northeastern University, 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, Reading Activities Project for Older Students (R.A.P.S.), Adaptive Play, and Mini-Grants and Volunteers. She has also authored a number of software programs for children with disabilities, such as Poetry Collection 1. She has presented hundreds of workshops throughout North America and Europe, and is a founding member of the Board of Directors for the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. 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).
	Linda Burkhart
	Susan Norwell Susan Norwell,M.S.,Ed has worked with a wide array of students , primarily those with autism spectrum, for the last 23 years. She has spent the last 13 years in private practice working primarily with chidlren on the autistic spectrum and girls who have Rett Syndrome. She is trained in "Greenspan's Floortime" model and would consider herself a relationship based educational specialist. She has focused in the recent past on augmentative communication, play and literacy for children on the spectrum especially those without verbal language. She consults to various school districts on successful inclusion of children with autism and has presented workshops throughout the U.S. and Canada. Susan is a high energy presentor whose presentations are known for her broad knowledge base as well as practical and creative ideas.
	Pati King-DeBaun Pati King-DeBaun is a speech language pathologist who has specialized in communication for children with severe physical and cognitive disabilities for the past fifteen years. She has worked extensively with infant/toddlers and their parents, preschool special needs population in the classroom setting and school age children with a wide range of physical and cognitive disabilities. She has written and continues to write and publish numerous articles, books and software (Storytime Series). She speaks throughout the World on the topics of interactive communication, augmentative communication, emergent literacy, and creativity for children with disabilities. She consults in a variety of classrooms with children who have a wide range of physical and cognitive disabilities. She is owner of the company Creative Communicating which develops and distributes materials that promote communication, creativity and emergent literacy in classrooms.
	Susan Norwell & Pati King-DeBaun
	Patti Rea Patti Rea is a former teacher of children with severe disabilities in the Dallas Public Schools. Since 1994 she has worked as a Technology Consultant in the area of Assistive Technology. She has extensive hands on experience w ith a variety of technology tools and has worked collaboratively with a variety of assistive technology companies. Currently she conducts one and two day hands-on computer workshops with a variety of assistive technology devices and software.
	Jill Senner Jill E. Senner, PhD, CCC-SLP completed her doctoral work at Northwestern University where she researched drooling and swallowing in children with cerebral palsy. She has an MS in Speech-Language Pathology from Purdue University where she participated in the Augmentative and Alternative Communication Personnel Preparation Program. At Saint Xavier University (SXU) she worked as an Assistant Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders and taught graduate courses in AAC and dysphagia. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at SXU and is the Owner/Director of Technology and Language Center in Wilmette, IL. She is the president of the Illinois Network for Augmentative and Alternative Communication and is the author of Writing Activities for use with Speaking Dynamically Pro and Write With Me: Emergent Writing Activities for DynaVox System Software. Her past experience includes interning at the Alan J. Brown Center for Augmentative Communication and Environmental Control at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, working as an Assistive Technology Specialist in Augmentative Communication at the University of Illinois- Chicago, Assistive Technology Unit, and working as a school speech-language pathologist for Northern Suburban Special Education District.