Gillian Hotz, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is The Director of the KiDZ
Neuroscience Center, Research Professor, Department of
Neurosurgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in
Miami, Florida. Dr. Hotz is Principal Investigator on a variety of
funded research projects for acute care and rehabilitation of
children with traumatic brain injury and injury prevention. She has
presented at local, national, and international conferences; has
published numerous papers on the topic of traumatic brain injury;
and is coauthor of the Brief Test of Head Injury (with Nancy
Helm-Estabrooks, PRO-ED, 1991). Dr. Hotz is a member of a number of
advisory groups, including the Florida Injury Prevention Advisory
Council and the Sarah Jane Brain Project/The National Pediatric
Acquired Brain Injury Plan.
Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, Sc.D., CCC-SLP, Brewer Smith
Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication Disorders and
Sciences at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North
Carolina. She was affiliated with the Harold Goodglass Aphasia
Research Center and Boston University School of Medicine for 32
years, was a Research Scientist at the National Center for
Neurogenic Communication Disorders at The University of Arizona,
and a Research Professor at the University of North Carolina. Dr.
Helm-Estabrooks is board certified by the Academy of Neurologic
Communication Disorder (ANCDS). Her awards include American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and ANCDS Honors, and
the Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award. She is an ASHA Fellow
and has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles, 7 books, 21
chapters, and 6 standardized tests.
Nickola Wolf Nelson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, is Professor
Emerita in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
and former Director of the Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary
Health Sciences at Western Michigan University. She is author of
the book Language and Literacy Disorders: Infancy Through
Adolescence, and first author of the Test of Integrated Language
and Literacy Skills (TILLS), as well as editor-in-chief of the
journal, Topics in Language Disorders. Dr. Nelson's research and
publications focus on curriculum-based language and literacy
assessment and intervention.
Elena Plante, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a Professor in the
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at The
University of Arizona in Tucson. She is a fellow both of The
University of Arizona's College of Science and of the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Her areas of research interest
include language learning and assessment practices. She in addition
to multiple journal articles on these topics, Dr. Plante is a
co-author on the Pediatric Test of Brain Injury and the Test of
Integrated Language and Literacy Skills. Dr. Plante has also been
using neuroimaging to explore the brain bases of language and
cognition for the last 2 decades. She has active national and
international collaborations in the areas of neuroimaging,
language, and learning.
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