Volume 13 4400 Boylan Spring 2014 Newsletter of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology

Not My Last Lecture Robert Goldfarb ’68, M.S., ’72 Ph.D.

To Gail Gurland, old friend and colleague, thank you for the opportunity to write this article and acknowledge that, in large part, I owe my career to Brooklyn College. s Randy Pausch said in The Last Lecture, let’s start by acknowledging the elephant in Athe room. I am writing this article from my hospital bed, where I hope I will be able to tolerate a new medication that will stabilize my heart. In mid-June, I became a stroke expert, having had a brainstem stroke (a pontine infarction, for those readers who are neurogenic communication disorders specialists). I have been dealing with the consequent effects of severe right hemiparesis, which is much better now, mild ataxic dysarthria and mild dysphagia. The two degrees I earned from Brooklyn College have helped me prepare for my current health challenge. At a time when speech therapists worked mostly as sound correctors (we were not trained to be SLPs until the late 1970s), having mentors such as Boyd Sheets, who specialized in aphasia, and Oliver Bloodstein, who specialized and my calculus TA couldn’t solve the problems in stuttering, inspired my future work and have that my professor assigned. Add to this my aided my recovery. fascination with shooting pool at the Student There will be more about these wonderful Center (then known as SUBO), and it was no men later in this essay, but any talk of Brooklyn surprise that the only Dean’s List that I was on had College has to begin with the Country Fair, where something to do with being on probation. Where two teenagers, met on April 5, 1967, and first could I get a couple of quick A grades? became friends, and then life partners. I was 19 at My older cousin, Dan Flickstein (who has the time, a junior in Curtis House; and Shelley, my taught basic speech in Boylan Hall for 40 years) wife of 44 years, was an 18-year-old sophomore suggested some courses in acting and oral in Wellesley House. Our charity project involved interpretation of literature. The suggestion was a building Cinderella’s coach and charging admission good one. There I also discovered Mel White for Country Fair visitors to pose on it for pictures. to be an inspirational professor of basic, advanced I started the College as a pre-engineering major, and, just as Beryl Adler wrote in the 2012 issue of and quickly encountered the curse of Ingersoll this publication, honors-level oral interpretation Hall, where GPAs go to die. Bench sciences were courses. Professor White took a personal, but in more than an immature 19-year-old could handle, (continued on Page 3) and Sigma Alpha Eta, respectively. Greetings from We also welcomed Jennifer the Program Sass-Brown as a newly appointed lecturer, and celebrated the Director distinguished careers of Roberta Gail B. Gurland Chapey, Rochelle Cherry and Tim Gura, all of whom retired this past year. n behalf of the faculty Despite budgetary and staff of the program constraints, our accomplishments Oin speech-language continue to be many and a great pathology and audiology, I am source of pride to all of us who pleased to bring you the lucky have benefited from a Brooklyn 13th edition of 4400 Boylan. Once College education. During again we are delighted to share these difficult fiscal times, your the reflections of six outstanding generosity is more important themselves in the field of alumni who represent various to us than ever. To that end, as communication sciences and generations of graduates. These you read and reflect on your disorders, locally and nationally. individuals share their memories own experiences at Brooklyn We continue to have a of the college as well as the paths College, we ask you to consider great deal about which to be that led them to the worlds of giving back at whatever level is proud, from ongoing faculty and academia, private practice, adult possible so that the outstanding student research and training health care and public education. work that has been going on opportunities, to innovations Additionally, distinguished here for more than 80 years in community outreach and alumnus Ron Tikofsky partners may continue for generations to clinical services. Our chapter of with faculty member Susan come. Whether you donate to the the National Student Speech Longtin to share memories of one program at large or request that Language Hearing Association of the program’s most esteemed your donation support one of our (NSSLHA) continues to sponsor alumnae Norma Rees, a former student or client scholarships, an annual symposium, under the president of ASHA, who passed faculty mentored student direction of Natalie Schaeffer. away this year. research, community outreach The graduate peer-mentoring This year we completed the or general clinical educational program, under the direction of eight-year-cycle of the Council materials, we thank you in Cyndi Stein, remains a vital on Academic Accreditation advance for your generosity. aspect of student life, as does the (CAA) review, and we anticipate We look forward to hearing Friday student clinical workshop reaccreditation by summer 2014. from you and hope you will series, led by Susan Bohne and We admitted 36 new students consider a visit to the campus Naomi Shualy. for fall 2013, with more than half and the Diana Rogovin Davidow This was a year in which coming from undergraduate Speech Language Hearing we experienced a number of institutions other than Brooklyn Center. You will find that our transitions: Sharon Beaumont- College and from such varied commitment to provide the Bowman and Akiko Fuse disciplines as music, theater, very best academic and clinical assumed faculty leadership of neuroscience, literature and education continues to be central the Graduate Student Speech- business. Our students and to our mission. alumni continue to distinguish Language-Hearing Organization

2 4400 Boylan (continued from Page 1) About 20 years later, when I was a Describe the anatomy, physiology no sense unprofessional, interest full professor and program director and neurology of such an event. in me. He and I saw the final dress at Lehman College, this former One opportunity we had rehearsal of the prototypical supervisor (she didn’t last long at BC) in graduate school came as a Balanchine ballet that would evolve came for a job interview. I asked her if result of the contact Professor into Jewels, with the choreographer she remembered being my supervisor, Sheets made with the chief of the running up and down from the and she replied that she had too Gastroenterology and Endoscopy orchestra to the stage for last-minute many students to remember any of Department at Downstate Medical adjustments. “Unca Mel” (as he would them. She didn’t get the job, and it’s Center. “Big Ed,” as we called him, sign the letters that we exchanged for not just because revenge is a dish but never to his face, was about years after he left for the University best served cold. 6 foot, 5 inches tall and 300-plus of Hawaii), knowing my interest After graduation, I found myself pounds, with a ruddy complexion in piano and jazz, also took me to providing speech therapy to children that became redder whenever see the great Canadian jazz pianist, in three NYC public schools, even he raised his voice, which was Oscar Peterson. There is no doubt though I wasn’t old enough yet to basically all the time. We went to in my mind that my decades-long vote. Fortunately, Professor Sheets the medical school for our evening subscription to the New York City took a chance on me, and gave me a class, and I still use the notes from Ballet had its genesis in the awe that provisional acceptance to the Master his course on dysphagia paralytica was inspired in me by my experiences of Science program. In the years that in my teaching, and still pronounce with Professor White. Joel Kahane, Chuck Goldman and I the disorder “dysphahzhia,” as the There was another dividend of worked and studied with Professor gastroenterologists do. taking speech and theater courses; Sheets (although none of us named The longer you live, the more I discovered that the Department a daughter “Boydina” in his honor, Dickensian-type coincidences of Speech also featured a course in as he often joked we would), we become a fact of life. Years after my the anatomy and physiology of the grew as students, as clinicians and course with Big Ed, I was hired by speech mechanism. Here was an as men. How could we measure up the Veterans Administration (that’s opportunity to sink my intellectual to someone who had the courage to now known as the Veterans Affairs) chops into something challenging, leave the security of his childhood in Department in Brooklyn to start a in an environment that seemed so Salt Lake City for New York to serve speech pathology and audiology welcoming. And the rest, as they say, as a spy in Germany during World service at the VA Extended Care is history. War II under the cover of being a Center in St. Albans, Queens. During Well, not quite. We had to Mormon missionary, and then work the construction of the clinic, I do a clinical practicum as seniors, for the FBI before becoming our worked at the acute care facility on and the dress code was, as Donna teacher? But somehow, in our own Poly Place in Brooklyn. In the spring Thal told me, “Heels and hose for ways, and by following our own of 1978, my chief asked me to see one the ladies, jackets and ties for the dreams, we did measure up, and that of the patients on the ward, a former gentlemen.” That made us easy to is really as significant as anything for doctor who had severe bilateral spot at Vietnam protest rallies, but which Professor Sheets could claim strokes. Sure enough, it was “Big Ed”, there was no way we would miss a credit. Even now, almost 40 years in grave condition. I didn’t have much session of clinic. Toward the end of later, I tell my students, as we take time with him, and he was nonverbal, the semester, my supervisor came in out our scalpels and sheep brains but I cherish the memory of seeing for the first time for about 10 minutes for dissection, how Professor Sheets him at bedside, holding his hand and and, after finding out a bit about my demonstrated the dissection in an telling him how much he had terrified background, told me that I’d better go intensive summer course in advanced the grad students. His smiles expressed back to engineering, because I had no anatomy. (Currently a major OT what his words could not. future in speech therapy. I love to tell goal for me is to be able to use a I had one more gift from this story to my graduate students, scalpel without committing a capital Professor Sheets. He wrote a very because they often think they’re crime.) I also assign my students strong letter of recommendation the first ones to struggle with a Professor Sheets’ “cat” question: when I applied to the CUNY Ph.D. practicum. But there’s an ironic twist. An adult female says the word cat. (continued on Page 4) 4400 Boylan 3 (continued from Page 3) sum of two dollars, I bought a copy program in speech and hearing and saw that it wasn’t very different Annual symposium: sciences. (The term “language” was from my course notes. By the way, Department of Speech not added to the program’s name Professor Bloodstein, then in his 80s, Communication Arts until the late 1970s, when Norma contributed a superb chapter to the and Sciences Rees, a former executive officer of book I edited, which was published the program, became president of in 2006, that was based on that the American Speech and Hearing In a symposium symposium. I miss hearing him Association, as ASHA was then known, say, “Kiddo.” and added the word to the name of One last story can bring us coordinated by Professor our national organization.) I know I up to date, as well as all the way would not have been accepted into back. For close to 40 years, I have Natalie Schaeffer, Jed Baker, the program without Professor Sheets’ presented and published research support. In 2000, when I was the Ph.D., director of the Social with Professor Harvey Halpern, who executive officer of the doctoral devoted his career to Queens College program (a position now held with Skills Training Project, and the Graduate Center, and did great distinction by Klara Marton), I his undergraduate work at Brooklyn gave a seminar entitled pulled out my old student file and saw College. Like his friend Fred Martin, his letter. It must have taken him hours who wrote in 4400 Boylan in 2011, “All Kids Can Succeed: to write it and it changed my life. Harvey went to college after serving What can anyone say about in the Army. He took his clinical Effective Interventions Oliver Bloodstein that hasn’t been practicum and had an altogether told by a legion of adoring former different experience from mine. His for Behavioral and Social students? For one, I accused him of clinical supervisor was Paula Bennett, being the foremost living authority who was ahead of him in class, but Changes” on March 1, 2013. on stuttering, in print and in public, younger. Harvey received an A+ in for decades. He didn’t seem to mind. clinic, and he and Paula have been I wasn’t part of the “in” group that married for some 60 years. During my went to his house near campus, three weeks of intensive rehab at the nor was I a student who stood out Rusk Institute this past summer, I told in any particular way, other than my therapists not to be intimidated, being male. We did stay in touch that they had plenty to offer and that over the years, and when I convened I intended to take their advice. The a national symposium, Ethics and SLP who was working with me on my the Tudor Study, about research at mild ataxic dysarthria, and who did a the University of Iowa in 1939 under great job, said, “But we’re using your Wendell Johnson, I knew who to ask book!” She was referring to the book for an eyewitness account. Professor Harvey and I had just published in Bloodstein wrote dispassionately in 2013, on language and motor speech his inimitable way about his former disorders in adults. mentor, although he declined to So we’ve come full circle. An deliver the speech. Some of us SLP who needed one, who provided remember how he would rig up a therapy to a doctor who had been his reel-to-reel tape recorder, so that he instructor, who teaches his students could use the amplifier as a public using some of his former teacher’s address system when he lectured to methods, and who found his wife and the class. Soon after A Handbook his way in life at Brooklyn College, says, on Stuttering was published by the “Thank you, 4400 Boylan!” Easter Seals Society. For the princely

4 4400 Boylan Professor James Lang that ultimately When I graduated from Brooklyn An Ear for Music led me to the path of audiology. I also College with honors in speech pathology and a Match did a special research project with him; and audiology, I was one of two that experience made me feel that departmental awardees. I felt then, for Audiology acoustics and hearing were really my as I do now, that if you pursue your Barbara Kurman ’73, Au.D. areas and that hearing science needed interests, volunteer for student to be in my life. opportunities, network, and become a I had wonderful clinical experience visible and committed member of your have the fondest of memories of and supervision at Brooklyn College. professional community, the result will 4400 Boylan. Like everyone else Personally, I could never understand be a lifetime of wonderful professional during my early academic career, my I why anyone would be interested in experiences and success in your field. major in communication disorders was articulation therapy as a life choice, but As an audiologist, I have been active primarily focused on speech pathology, my experience gave me the foundation in leadership roles on the local, state with limited audiology courses. I loved to see how careful planning, and and national levels of our professional guided therapy sessions, could organizations. I continue to believe ultimately improve my patient’s life. I that only with member participation was very interested in voice disorders, in our professional organizations can probably because I was a music minor change and growth come about and and a singer at Brooklyn College. In that we should not complain if we fact, it was at the Brooklyn College have not contributed to the solution of Chorale that I met Michael Emmer, who existing problems. would later become the husband of Brooklyn College gave me all our program’s current esteemed chair, of the building blocks for a most Michele Emmer. rewarding professional life as an In pursuit of my speech pathology/ audiologist. Since graduation, I have audiology and education double majors, earned my Au.D., worked clinically and I completed my student teaching co-founded two special equipment phonetics, and could have listened under Professor Ronald Feldman. In distributorship companies. I am to Professor Sylvia Blackman forever. retrospect, the rigors of this program, currently a board member of the Her voice, choice of words, cadences along with student teaching, class and Governors of the American Board of and tonality were mesmerizing. I had clinic responsibilities as well as fulfilling Audiology of the American Academy Professor Boyd Sheets for anatomy the role of president of the Sigma of Audiology. I remain in contact with and physiology, and to this day, have Alpha Eta Honor Society, were the the faculty at Brooklyn College, and retained much of what I learned with beginning of what would be a lifetime whenever I am asked to participate in this wonderful, erudite man. I took of professional and personal juggling. their projects, I always agree. Michael Communication Disorders 1 and 2 I ultimately decided that being a Bergen, who has served many roles in with Professor Phyllis Gildston, who Teacher of the Speech and Hearing the New York State Speech-Language- instilled in me the ability to critically Handicapped was not a good fit for me. Hearing Association (NYSSLHA), evaluate a patient’s history and initial Five years after my Brooklyn College including president, knows that he presentation. Her diagnostic skills, graduation, I needed to document my only need ask, and I will always say I felt, were quite remarkable, and clinical hours, and Professor Feldman yes. I owe all of my Brooklyn College made me feel that it was necessary remembered me and facilitated the colleagues my gratitude for the start to become a true clinical investigator process so that I could apply for of my professional path. in order to determine the correct a master’s degree in audiology at path for a patient’s plan of care. But it Syracuse University, where my husband was the two courses that I took with was completing his medical residency.

4400 Boylan 5 desk. I spent so many hours working awaited me. As current clinic director The Luck of and studying in Boylan Hall, I’m at Long Island University, Brooklyn the Irish! surprised my foot prints are not campus, I realize that I owe all of you imprinted upon those corridor floors! more than you could ever know. I’m Bridget Dwyer ’82, M.S. ’84 Moving from class to class every day, the luckiest girl in the world to have studying with Professors Bloodstein, spent those years at Brooklyn College Gurland, Pieras, Lang, Gildston, Quinn, in 4400 Boylan! Duffy, Cherry, Rubinstein and others, brought me ever closer to my goal of being an SLP. How lucky was I! More Than Joining Sigma Alpha Eta was one of the best things I ever did. I held a Career every office in the society and have Enrique Gonzalez ’99, M.S. ’06 the honor of being the society’s youngest president to date. We had so much fun and so many wonderful experiences, and I met so many special people, including Leda, Lucille, Lois, Lisa, Fran, Roz, Aliza, Fred and my y life at Brooklyn College dear friend, Holly. She and I still speak began to unfold on a crisp almost every day, even after 35 years! Mwinter afternoon during I was fortunate to spend my an open house for prospective graduate years at BC as well. I took freshmen. At age 17, I was already every class with Professor Gurland set on pursuing a career as a speech- that I could, attended ASHA and language pathologist (SLP). I was NYSSLHA conventions, and participated sent up to 4400 Boylan Hall to speak in numerous symposia and research with members of the faculty. As luck activities. I am proud to be a founding ccording to the dictionary, would have it, I met Oliver Bloodstein member, along with Gail Gurland and “career” is defined as “job that day. Little did I know that here Sam Chwat, among others, of FOCUS, or profession for which one before me was one of the leaders of A our phenomenal aphasia support is trained and which one intends to our profession, advising me about my group. As a member of the group, I follow for part or the whole of one’s future career. Imagine my surprise learned valuable life lessons about life.” This definition holds true for when I found out some time later who empathy, patience, determination me, seeing that I received exceptional this quiet, unassuming man really and gratitude. training and I intend to follow my was! Through the years I came to find I had the opportunity to be profession until I retire, if not beyond. that Professor Bloodstein had a terrific trained by wonderful clinical However, it is a somewhat inadequate sense of humor and a delightful supervisors like Lucy Girlando, definition in that speech language giggle as well as a brilliant mind. Dorothy Pollack, Marcia Grossman, pathology is much more than just a My introduction to life in the Judy Davies, Barbara Ravski and Gloria profession to me. Speech Department began when I Schlisselberg. Years later I returned When I moved to New York in the met Margaret Flynn, the departmental to supervise at the center, under the fall of 1992 I did not have any inkling adviser. One day I went to her office direction of Jerry Koller, one of the that my life was going to take this to pick up my class schedule and, dearest people I know. direction. I came to the Big Apple the next thing I knew, I had a job as My time at BC prepared me to learn English. My intention was a work study student at the front so well for the diverse career that to stay here for two years and then

6 4400 Boylan go back to my country. Twenty plus Professor Gurland was my years later I am still here. adviser and I couldn’t have asked for Taking After several years working anyone better. She was a demanding Opportunity in different jobs and becoming teacher with an amazing amount clear about the fact that I was not of knowledge, who was always Eric Jackson M.S. ’09 going back to Spain, I realized that supportive and encouraging. After being a waiter the rest of my life sharing insecurity about my accent, I was not something I wanted to do, inquired about accent modification. so I decided to return to school. She responded by assuring me that Computers and business were my my accented English would not two top choices. Luckily, a wise friend interfere with my ability to provide reminded me that since I was already services and, in fact, was quite in my early thirties whatever I chose charming. would be my job for the rest of my 4400 Boylan was my first home work life. The thought of spending away from home, the amazing people many years in front of a computer there were my surrogate family. I screen, or dealing with bonds and will never be able to fully express shares, was not appealing in the least. my gratitude. The program and its The same friend suggested participants gave me a sense of really that I look into speech language being part of something special at efore beginning my education pathology, mentioning that being the time when I needed that the most, at Brooklyn College, I worked bilingual would be an advantage. and it prepared me for what I hope Bin the financial services I told him what many people have will be a long and fruitful career. industry. In many ways, my work in since indicated to me: “I have no idea banking was without purpose, and what you are talking about; I’ve never I knew there was something more for in my life heard of this profession.” me. It was not until I decided to go The Graduate Student He then arranged for me to spend a back to school for speech-language day shadowing a friend of his who pathology, a decision triggered by Speech Language Hearing was a speech language pathologist. I my own experiences as a person who found that I was fascinated from the stutters and who has been successful Organization is pleased to beginning and quickly decided that in speech therapy, that I realized this seemed to be the right fit for me. what that something was. announce the presentation of Brooklyn College was the next After taking several prerequisite step toward my goal. I did not have courses, I enrolled in the graduate the Third Annual Distinguished any American college experience SLP program at BC. The college was and couldn’t have asked for a better an ideal place for me in several ways. Alumnus Award to Sylvia one. From the moment I started The environment was conducive to volunteering at 4400 Boylan, I felt learning. I distinctly remember the Walters, ’74, M.S. ’77 Ph.D. like I was part of a family, of a classroom being a place in which group of people bound by the same participation was encouraged, even The award will be presented profession but also sharing a sense of when you did not know the answer. camaraderie. Not having any family For most of my life, I had been fearful at the program’s graduation with me in the U.S., that sense of of speaking in public. As a student belonging couldn’t have come at a in the SLP program, I was given ceremony, May 28, 2014. better moment in my life. countless opportunities not only to share my sometimes emphatic point

4400 Boylan 7 of view, but also to teach several and providing me with an opportunity Boylan. My initial impression was that courses, including a public speaking to grow as a scholar and clinician. the 4400 clinic waiting room didn’t course. Student interests were also Oh yeah, I also met my soon-to- stand out from the other schools, supported at BC. I had the privilege be wife at BC! Julie was beginning but that was before I met Professor of co-facilitating a support group her degree in speech when I was Gurland, program director, and a few for adults who stutter with Chuck graduating, and must have been other faculty members. I breathed a Goldman, a mentor and friend to this impressed by my persistence (i.e., sigh of relief because I knew then that day. Additionally, supportive faculty ability to never shut up). It is truly 4400 would be a place I could call members made for easier days during hard for me to imagine not having “home” for the next two years. a rigorous program. I remember attended BC! The graduate program turned stopping by Michael Bergen’s office out to be more rigorous than I had after long days (he was always imagined and yet as manageable as there…) and discussing the trials and Wise Voices from I had hoped. The faculty members tribulations associated with being a of the SLP program, particularly fan of the New York Jets. My Past Professor Gurland, command such I received exceptional instruction Karen Axelson M.S. ’11 respect. They have an amazing ability in several areas during the course of to help each student reach their my education. Gail Gurland was (and greatest potential. As a graduate is) the consummate professional, and fellow, I taught undergraduate was an exemplary instructor. BC is courses. Additionally, there were also one of very few SLP programs to opportunities to conduct research offer a course on counseling, which and present at conventions. After is, in my opinion, a crucial component much learning, some tears, countless of being a therapist of any kind. Beryl money spent at Starbucks in the Adler’s class on this topic explored, Boylan Hall basement and a great with care and compassion, the deal of laughter, I truly believe that human experience associated with 4400 Boylan helped us all to become communication disorders and was our best selves. a highlight of the program for me. Since graduating from the Clinically, I am forever grateful to master’s program, I moved to Jane Clapp for refining my writing Maryland, completed my clinical abilities and my current students are y bedroom floor was fellowship in a skilled nursing facility, beneficiaries of her method. There is covered in applications to and am now program manager of no question that my teaching style, Mvarious NYC metro-area their rehabilitation department. To as well as the dedication and passion graduate programs. I had no idea this day, I still hear the sage advice I have for teaching, reflect my days where I wanted to go and was not of my Brooklyn College professors. spent studying with Gail, Beryl, Chuck, even sure I would want to work in When working with patients with Jane, and others in the BC community. speech-language pathology forever. dementia and speaking to their Since graduating, I have worked I received an acceptance letter from adult children, I hear Professor as a private practitioner, clinical Brooklyn College and, since it was Goldman asking me, “Who owns supervisor, and instructor at universities, a CUNY school, the price was right. the problem? Who is your client?” It both in New York and internationally. However, I still had reservations about was his seminars that really honed Currently, I am also pursuing a my decision because I had never been my interviewing and counseling doctoral degree in SLP. I am thankful to Brooklyn College. Then in the skills. Just last month, I delivered to the faculty and staff of the BC SLP summer of 2009, I attended an open an in-service program to the entire program for setting me on this path, house for accepted students at 4400 dietary department and the building

8 4400 Boylan administrator. Right before it, I felt a little nervous. Then, I heard Professor Another Year of Great Activity Gurland’s wise voice, something she Michael Bergen had said to me before I taught an undergraduate course, “It’s good to look out at our beautiful Central rehabilitative services, continuing be a little nervous . . . being nervous Quadrangle, the light snow gently community outreach is supported for means you care.” Icovering the campus grounds and a number of our programs, including There’s a saying that encapsulates casting an early evening hush over a chapter of the Asperger Syndrome my BC experience; to paraphrase everything as students prepare for and High Functioning Autism something that Mark Twain wrote: final exams. The Association (AHA), surround yourself with greatness and peaceful year-end which has been you will achieve greatness. In addition contrasts with the meeting under the to the vast practical knowledge energy and activity direction of Corinne I attained at BC are the amazing of so many prior Turkish, and our friendships created during those two months. affiliation with the years that went by so fast. We’ve each The past year Oliver Bloodstein gone on to do something different has been another Chapter of the in our field, specializing in children busy one. The National Stuttering or adults, with some moving out of Diana Rogovin Association (NSA). state to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Davidow Speech- Additionally, a elsewhere, but I know that we will Language Hearing Lee Silverman always have our experience at 4400 Center continues to Voice Treatment Boylan to bind us together. The serve as the hub of clinical activities (LSVT) program was launched under selection of amazing people in my for hundreds of students at the the direction of Sharon Beaumont- cohort, who were hand-picked to go undergraduate, graduate and doctoral Bowman, and the center hosts an through the BC Graduate Program levels. Indeed, the past year saw an orientation program for new users of in SLP together, are the greatest intensive reaccreditation site visit by hearing aids, under the guidance of extended family that could have ever a team who emphasized how notably Dorothy DiToro and Zhanneta Shapiro. been chosen. My financially savvy impressed they were by the faculty Please inform interested clients and decision to attend Brooklyn College and students of our program. With colleagues about these wonderful has proved the ultimate investment in that preliminary verbal report, what resources! myself and my future. more could a program possibly ask Our active student groups for? And, of course, we agree with participated in a number of events, their assessment — our stellar faculty including fund raising activities for and student body produce much for Hearing Loss Association of America’s Do you have new contact us to be proud of. Walk4Hearing and an AHA Bowling Under the guidance of Susan fundraiser. Our programs received information? New or Bohne and Naomi Shualy, a series of approximately $50,000 in grant interesting news to share? hands-on workshops were held to funding, which was used to obtain introduce graduate students to clinical items to enhance clinical education, Contact us with details by resources and facilitate usage of them, including tablet computers, flash sending an email to continuing a tradition that encourages drives and portable hard drives, a second-year students to serve in clinical phonatory aerodynamic system, a [email protected]. mentorship roles to incoming students. number of new diagnostic evaluation In addition to the array of tools, portable audiometers and an regularly-occurring diagnostic and auditory evoked potential system.

4400 Boylan 9 The center may have celebrated its Effort, of course, on the part of our Our faculty, staff and students 80th birthday, but we are fortunate to students and faculty members, but so again look forward to the coming year have advanced, modern technology much of what is achieved is done with with excitement! We hope that you will and clinical tools available for clients, the help of our staff, led by Angela stay in touch — send us a note to tell students and faculty members. Caragliano, Casandra Corbie and us about recent achievements — and We have seen an increase in the Annsonia Garrick. consider a visit! amount of scholarship money made available to our students — more than $70,000 was awarded in the form SLP Program Participates in the of scholarships and partial tuition Collaborative Support Service waivers in 2013! The Diana Rogovin Davidow scholarship recipients were Program for College Students on Belen Castillo de Molina, Leslie-Ann Reid-Bacchus, Yuliya Shapirshteyn and the Autism Spectrum Viktoriya Zeldina. The Mel Silverman Susan Bohne and Corinne Turkish Scholarship recipient was Samantha he program in speech language students on the autism spectrum, and Rinato, and the inaugural Oliver pathology is pleased to for the faculty and staff with whom Bloodstein Memorial Scholarship participate in the third funded they interact. was awarded to Arielle Kahaner. In T year of the Collaborative Support The interdisciplinary services on addition, a number of students were Service Program. This program enables the Brooklyn College campus have awarded NYC Department of Education Brooklyn College students with autism been coordinated by Susan Bohne, scholarships. Alumni support continues spectrum conditions to meet their assistant clinic director, and Corinne to be an important factor in allowing full potential for academic and career Turkish, project coordinator and our programs to recruit, reward and success, and enrich their college clinical instructor, both of the Diana retain the best students! experience. This program addresses the Rogovin Davidow Speech Language Although there was much to be demand for greater educational and Hearing Center; Valerie Stewart-Lovell, thankful for in 2013, the year did not support services, both for those director of the Center for Student pass without difficulty. Late September brought the sad news of the tragic loss of second-year graduate student, Jennifer Silverstein, the innocent victim of a fatal car crash. She was admired by students, faculty and staff, and is deeply missed. For those of us who have had the good fortune of coming to 4400, and I have been included in that number for the past 20-plus years, we know how wonderful it is to be surrounded by the greatest group of colleagues, support staff, students and clients a person could ever hope to find. Clinical activities so often run smoothly, it is sometimes easy to forget that they are Faculty members Susan Bohne, Dorothy DiToro and Corinne Turkish not accomplished without great effort. participate in a health fair with students Connie Cai and Sommer Goodman.

10 4400 Boylan Disability Services (CSDS); Ilene identified as having autism spectrum students to inform and engage the Tannenbaum, director and nurse disorders (ASD) to the CSDS are campus-wide community in this practitioner of the BC Health Clinic; paired with graduate mentors to guide program. One of the recent programs and Adriana DiMatteo and Yair Kramer, them in multiple areas of college life. invited Stephen Shore, assistant both of the Personal Counseling Mentors help support such aspects as professor at Adelphi University, Services. Assistant Professor Susan social communication, organization whose talk, “Promoting successful Longtin was one of the authors of the and time management. The current transitioning into, through, and beyond original proposal. mentors include three graduate SLP higher education for students on the Students who participate in the students, Samantha Rinato, Jennifer autism spectrum: An inside view,” program may also avail themselves of Iacono and Leslie-Ann Reid-Bacchus, included remarks on his own life-long campus services, including those of the who, along with graduate students experiences with autism. Magner Center for Career Development from psychology and personal The continuation and expansion and Internships, the Learning Center, counseling, meet weekly with Elizabeth of this program and its mission will and the School of Education’s programs Blanchard, clinical supervisor, to obtain enhance CUNY’s capacity to support its in special education, school psychology guidance in their mentor role. growing population of college students and mental health counseling. Workshops and in-services have with ASD. The great success of this program been provided to faculty, staff and is that the students who have self- Brooklyn College Helps Parkinson’s Disease Patients with New Speech Therapy Program (This article was originally posted his summer the Diana Rogovin program for speech-language on July 23, 2013, at http://www. Davidow Speech Language pathology (SLP) graduate students brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/news/bcnews/ Hearing Center at Brooklyn seeking to learn how to improve the bcnews_130723.php. It is reprinted T College launched the Lee Silverman voice and speech of individuals with here in edited form, with permission of Voice Treatment (LSVT), a certification Parkinson’s disease. Brooklyn College.) Parkinson’s disease (PD) — the search for its cure has been championed by actor Michael J. Fox, who revealed he had PD in 1998 — is a chronic and progressive movement disorder caused by the death of nerve cells in the brain that help control motor abilities. Currently there is no cure, and PD symptoms — tremors of the hand, limbs, jaw and face; slowness of movement; stiffness of the limbs and trunk; impaired balance and coordination; and speech impairment — may worsen quickly over time. Nearly one million people in the Professor Sharon Beaumont-Bowman with graduate students in the speech- United States are living with PD. language pathology program Carly Traiman, Ashley Small, Kate Esposito “Professor Gail Gurland, deputy and Kevin Hodge. chair and program director for

4400 Boylan 11 graduate studies in our department with PD clients in social settings, emotional, that PD patients face on a introduced me to Diana, and we with specially designed singing, daily basis,” says Kevin Hodge M.S. ’13, started talking about a program that dancing and other community-based another SLP graduate student in the caters to PD clients,” says Sharon classes offered through the Brooklyn program. “I know that I can apply that Beaumont-Bowman, assistant Parkinson Group, a non-profit knowledge and understanding to all professor in the Department of organization dedicated to enhancing such future clients.” Speech Communications Arts and the lives of those with Parkinson’s The benefits are not for the Sciences, who, with the help of Diana through arts-based activities. students alone. Those PD patients Rogovin Davidow ’66, M.S.’ 71, worked “We have formed a relationship who participated in the program to initiate LSVT at Brooklyn College in with Brooklyn Parkinson Group and have reported that their self-esteem Spring 2013. look forward to strengthening it has increased tremendously and Under the supervision of so as to better serve the community. expressed satisfaction with the course Beaumont-Bowman, the four-week This is very important,” says of voice therapy. therapy program is dually designed Beaumont-Bowman. One client revealed that his friends have made positive comments about his increased vocal volume and that acquaintances have told him that they were unaware he was even able to speak until he began the LSVT program. With his increased feeling of confidence, he is now interested in attending group therapy at Brooklyn College. The Lee Silverman Voice Treatment program is named for a woman with PD whose family challenged speech-language pathologists and researchers to come up with a way to communicate Graduate student Carly Traiman working with a participant in the with her. The challenge grew into a LSVT Program. program that eventually became LSVT to support the communication skills Of the LSVT program, graduate Global, a for-profit organization that of individuals with PD, while giving student Ashley Small M.S.’13 has high trains speech-language pathologists SLP graduate students intensive praise. “Professor Beaumont-Bowman world-wide in a research-based, one-on-one diagnostic and treatment challenged me in appropriate ways proprietary speech therapy approach. training. and pushed me to learn more about Four speech-language pathology “The LSVT program gives those myself and my clients,” said Small. graduate students were certified with PD a go-to place because we “I also enjoyed watching my in LSVT in Spring 2013, and with have created a solid environment fellow colleagues’ sessions. It was the continued financial support of for them where they can feel important to see how each colleague Davidow — who, in 2007, donated comfortable and be themselves,” said dealt with different issues, and to get $1 million to what was then known Beaumont-Bowman. “We want them their advice on those issues when as the Brooklyn College Speech to have a vibrant attitude about life they arose in my sessions,” she said. and Hearing Center — and other even though they’re living with this ”I feel that I have a much better contributors, Beaumont-Bowman has chronic disease.” understanding of some of the been able to continue to offer the To this end, students also work unique challenges, both physical and program to students.

12 4400 Boylan advocate for unifying our discipline, vice-provost at the University of Norma Rees: it is not an exaggeration to say that Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and from In Memoriam Norma Rees was the force behind the there she went on to serve on the movement that shaped the study of Massachusetts Board of Regents. Ronald Tikofsky ’52, M.A. language disorders in children. She In 1990, Norma Rees took on ’53, Ph.D. was instrumental in ASHA’s decision her final academic challenge. She Susan Longtin, Ph.D. to include “language” in its official name. assumed the presidency of what was Norma Rees served two terms then California (Cal) State Hayward; orma Rees, a Brooklyn in the ASHA Legislative Council, and led a successful campaign to College alumna whose and was president of ASHA in 1979. influence the Board of Regents Nacademic career spanned Her contributions to our discipline to rename it Cal State East Bay to five decades, died on June 6, 2013, were recognized by her professional better reflect the large populous in Hayward, California, at the age colleagues who bestowed upon region it serves. This was no small accomplishment. Always concerned with the well-being and education of students, she created the Students First program to enhance the student experience, which in turn increased enrollments and the stature of Cal State East Bay. Until she retired in 2006, Rees continued to build community and business alliances to grow the University and serve the students. Norma Rees was a strong advocate for women and students. Faculty member Susan Longtin joins alums Ron Tikofsky and Norma Rees This was evident in her ASHA at a Brooklyn College event. activities in the 60s, when she fought against male dominance in ASHA. of 84. She earned a master of arts her the distinction of ASHA Fellow Perhaps it was her advocacy that led degree in speech from Brooklyn and awarded her Honors of the her to become one of the first women College in the early ’50s, and her Association. presidents of the 23 colleges of the doctorate from NYU. Norma Rees Her talents and leadership California State University system. had a distinguished career in speech- skills were well suited to academic Those of us who were privileged language-hearing disorders before administration. This was first to know Norma Rees, as students, she entered academic administration. demonstrated in her work at friends and colleagues, will cherish Through her numerous publications, the Graduate Center of the City our memories of her as one of she was a forceful advocate for the University of New York. She first the smartest persons we have study of language development served as executive officer of the ever known. Norma was not just and disorders and one of the major doctoral program in speech and intelligent, she had a wicked sense forces in the pragmatics revolution’s hearing sciences from 1972 to 1974, of humor and her strong empathy impact on communication disorders. and then became the associate dean with others was not always displayed. She brought a transdisciplinary of graduate studies, serving from She was a role model and friend perspective to the field, one which 1976 until 1983, when she was made who will be missed and who will be addressed the larger issues of human professor emeritus. After she left remembered by us always. communication. Always a strong the Graduate Center, she became

4400 Boylan 13 work to support the growing population Susan Longtin received a grant to analyze Faculty Update of college students with autism spectrum the autobiographies of individuals on the Isabelle Barrière obtained a $105, disorder (ASDs), with funding again approved autism spectrum. Her reflection on “Kiss 135 NSF Grant for “Cross-Linguistic through Project REACH (Resources and me you Genius: Strategies for Thriving Investigations of the Acquisition of Education on Autism as CUNY’s Hallmark) in Neurologically Mixed Relations,” a Subject-Verb Agreement” and published by the City University of New York (CUNY) workshop she moderated at the spring On the Acquisition of French Argument Central Office Division of Student Affairs. conference of the Asperger Syndrome Structure and SE-Cliticization by She and Naomi Shualy created and led and High Functioning Autism Association Saarbrücken: Scholars’ Press. In October the 7th annual “advanced clinician- new (AHA), appeared in the Fall 2013 issue of and November, she gave guest speaker’s clinician” workshop in which the former On the Spectrum. Her article titled “Using lectures at Creating Identity: Yiddish in-house advanced, 2nd year graduate the college infrastructure to support Across a Spectrum of Jewish Communities clinicians share their clinical experiences students on the autism spectrum” and Today YIVO Annual Naomi Prawer Kadar with the new, in-house, 1st year clinicians. review of Scholars with Autism Achieving Memorial Lecture and “The Advantages Michele Emmer and Shlomo Silman Dreams (Perner, 2012) are in press for of Bilingual Education” sponsored by completed initial clinical trials in Nigeria the Journal of Postsecondary Education the French Consulate Dual Language for treatment of middle ear fluid and and Disability. programs initiative, at Queens Library associated hearing loss using the Klara Marton published a number of and Brooklyn College. EarPopper. Dr. Titus Ibekwe, the head of research papers, including Marton, K. et Barbara Bennett provided in-service the Nigerian Medical Association, was the al., (in press), “Information processing and instruction to interdisciplinary team Principal Investigator. The second stage, proactive interference in children with members at the Promenade Rehabilitation also led by Dr. Ibekwe, will be carried out and without specific language impairment Center in Queens, NY in March, 2013 and across various sites in Nigeria. (SLI)”, Journal of Speech Language and the St. Joachim and Anne Health Care and Baila Epstein had her article “Can children Hearing Research; Marton, K. & Yoon, J. Rehabilitation Center in Brooklyn, NY in with SLI detect cognitive conflict? Behavioral (in press), “Cross-linguistic Investigation December, 2013 on the role of the SLP in and electrophysiological evidence” of Language Impairments”, in Brooks, the treatment of tracheostomized and accepted for publication in the Journal of P. J., Kempe, V., & Golson, G. (Eds.), ventilator-dependent adult patients. In- Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Encyclopedia of Language Development, service programs included augmentative She completed a research study with Sage Publications; Marton, K. & Eichorn, communication devices, assessment and graduate student, Sommer Goodman, N. (in press), “Interaction between subsequent management of swallowing which culminated in the development working memory and long-term memory with an overview of the respiratory and of a coding system for describing in children with and without language phonatory systems. conversational breakdowns in language impairment”, Zeitschrift fur Psychologie. Sharon Beaumont-Bowman received samples of preschool children. She also Adrienne Rubinstein, along with a William Stewart travel award and completed a 17-hour series of training Professor Emeritus Rochelle Cherry and presented a poster, “Implications of workshops offered by the Roberta S. Au.D. student Elvera Bader, published an Pulse Oximetry for the Tracheostomized Matthews Center for Teaching on article in Hearing Review, “College Music Population”, at the Dysphagia Research Team-Based Learning. Faculty Views about Hearing Protection Society’s Annual Meeting in Seattle, March Akiko Fuse received a PSC-CUNY grant, Use and Hearing Conservation Training: 2013. She facilitated a neurogenic clinic at “Acquisition of Japanese Spatial Language How Can We Change Attitudes about DRDSLHC providing students an advanced and Categorization,” and was awarded Hearing Conservation in University clinical experience while offering therapeutic funding from the University Diversity Music Programs?”, in February 2013. In support to the Parkinson community. Project Development Fund for a project to collaboration with Dorothy Ditoro, she In June 2013, she presented “Feeding increase underrepresented populations in submitted a PSC-CUNY grant investigating Therapy Basics: An Introduction to the the graduate program in communication the effects of classroom acoustics on Essential Skills Utilized in the Assessment sciences and disorders. With the collaboration the speech perception abilities of and Treatment of Pediatric Feeding and of Sigma Alpha Eta and Natalie Schaeffer, college students for whom English is a Swallowing Problems”, a CEU event hosted she organized a series of Brown Bag meetings second language. by Challenge Early Intervention Center. for undergraduate students to explore Jennifer Sass-Brown joined the faculty Michael Bergen participated on committees and learn about their future career as a as a full time lecturer in September, of the New York State Speech-Language- speech-language pathologist or audiologist, 2013. She has been working to expand Hearing Association (NYSSLHA) and the and to prepare for application and the pediatric therapeutic program in the Metropolitan NY Council of University admission to graduate schools. DRDSLHC, including outreach to early Clinic Directors. He is chairing the Gail Gurland completed her fortieth year intervention populations. She recently Audiology Program Planning Committee as a member of the faculty where she secured a donation of toys and materials for the 2014 NYSSLHA Convention, and has served as Deputy Chair for Graduate aimed at treating this population. was appointed by President Karen Gould Studies since 1982 and Program Natalie Schaeffer is collecting vocal fold to the board of directors of the Brooklyn Director since 1995. She is stepping function baseline data on participants College Alumni Association (BCAA). down from both of these positions (ages 60-80) with perceptually normal Susan Bohne participated in the 2013 effective September, 2014 to continue voices using the Multidimensional Voice BC annual Faculty Day in a Round Table her work with language and learning Program (MDVP), to compare with data discussion entitled: “Interdisciplinary impaired children, adolescents, and young on normal voiced participants (ages Collaborative Support Services for adults, and to pursue her writing of 20-30). She is also using the MDVP to Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders children’s books. collect and compare data on dysphonic at BC”. She is continuing the collaborative 14 4400 Boylan as a Visiting Scholar in the School of in her graduate measurement and Faculty Update Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the assessment course, in which students (continued) University of Texas at Dallas. are responsible for learning content at individuals before and after therapy Cyndi Stein-Rubin, in collaboration home through prerecorded lectures, stimulation to improve their voices. She with Beryl Adler, is writing a book, and engage in interactive exercises and coordinated the annual symposium “All A Personal Development Handbook: reflective discussions to reinforce what Kids Can Succeed” which Dr. Jed Baker The Health Professional and Educator they learned in the recorded lectures. presented in March, 2013. as Facilitator, due to be published by Under her supervision, the Graduate Peer Shlomo Silman was renewed as Cengage Learning in 2015. She is also Mentorship Program is in its fourth year. Presidential Professor. He was invited using an inverted classroom format

The Program in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology thanks the following donors for their generous contributions Oren Abramowitz Sandy Brandes Melody Eisenberg Wilma Koss Shelley Pilberg Beryl Adler Joan Brown Dorfman Roslyn Kay Lasky Howard A. Reed Beverly Barzey Alan Brutten Sharlene Galper Elizabeth Ludovico Rosanne Schoen Barbara Bennett Nolan In memory of Deanna Glassmann Gallagher Mel Silverman Annette Bloodstein Gene Brutten Norma Goetz Helen Lumerman Rose Southard Dan & Phyllis Bloodstein Rochelle Cherry Marcia Grossman Gloria MacDonald Sylvia Walters Terry Bovin Barbara Cooper Esther Herbert Rozie Matthews Jeffrey Waxman The Bovin Family Susan Lee Rein Carrie Idler Marc Michalowicz Foundation Diana Rogovin Davidow Ralph Joglar Elizabeth Nolan

Full-Time Faculty and Staff Adjunct Faculty and Part-Time Staff Oren Abramowitz, Assistant Professor Beryl Adler, Adjunct Lecturer Isabelle Barriere, Assistant Professor Risa Baghdadi, Adjunct Lecturer Sharon Beaumont-Bowman, Assistant Professor Kristen Bissonette, College Assistant Barbara Bennett, Assistant Professor Simeon Blitman, Adjunct Assistant Professor Michael Bergen, Director, Tanya Caines, Clinical Instructor DRD Speech Language Hearing Center Dalia Dabah, Clinical Instructor Susan Bohne, Assistant Director, Ingrid Davidovich, Adjunct Lecturer DRD Speech Language Hearing Center Bethany Donohue, College Assistant Angela Caragliano, Office Manager Vicky Dreifus, Clinical Instructor Casandra Corbie, Office Assistant Chava Drillick, Clinical Instructor Dorothy DiToro, Assistant Professor Joanne Gerenser, Adjunct Assistant Professor Michele Emmer, Department Chair, Professor Charles Goldman, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Baila Epstein, Assistant Professor Clinical Instructor Akiko Fuse, Assistant Professor Carrie Idler, Clinical Instructor Annsonia Garrick, Assistant to Chair Jerry Koller, Adjunct Assistant Professor Gail Gurland, Deputy Chair, Kate Neumann, Clinical Instructor Director M.S. Program in SLP, Professor Gail Olenick, Clinical Instructor Susan Longtin, Assistant Professor Dianne Rodie, College Assistant Klara Marton, Executive Officer GC Ph.D. Program in Carol Schaeffler, Adjunct Lecturer Speech Language Hearing Sciences, Professor Zhanneta Shapiro, Clinical Instructor Adrienne Rubinstein, Professor Naomi Shualy, Clinical Instructor Jennifer Sass-Brown, Lecturer Merryl Silver, Clinical Instructor Natalie Schaeffer, Associate Professor Corinne Turkish, Clinical Instructor Shlomo Silman, Presidential Professor Sylvia Walters, Adjunct Associate Professor Cyndi Stein-Rubin, Lecturer Theresa Wilson, Clinical Instructor

4400 Boylan 15 Please consider giving back to the Program in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology by making and designating a tax deductible donation as follows: • General SLP/Aud donation • Clinical scholarships to support clients • Oliver Bloodstein Memorial Graduate experiencing financial hardship, Scholarship; • Clinical education • Community outreach programs, such • Applied clinical research as the autism support group; • Rochelle Cherry Award in Audiology

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