Speech & Language Development & Intervention in Down Syndrome & Fragile X Syndrome

Donald B. Bailey, Jr., Ph.D., is Distinguished Fellow at RTI International. He is internationally known as an expert on young children with disabilities. For 27 years, he was on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor and, for 14 years, director of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. Dr. Bailey has addressed a variety of issues in his research and publications related to early intervention of children with disabilities and their families, with a particular focus on family support, inclusion, early identification, and fragile X syndrome. He has an extensive record of publications, with more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and books on a wide variety of topics related to early education, early intervention, disability, and family support.

Dr. Fey's research and clinical interests include the role of input on children's speech and language acquisition, the relationship between oral and written language, and the efficacy and effectiveness of speech and language intervention for children. Dr. Fey was editor of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology from 1996 to 1998 and was chair of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Assocation Publications Board from 2003 to 2005. Along with his many publications, including articles, chapters, and software programs, he has published two other books on language intervention, Language Intervention with Young Children (Allyn & Bacon, 1986), and Language Intervention: Preschool Through the Elementary Years (edited with Jennifer Windsor & Steven F. Warren; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1995).

Alan G. Kamhi, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor in the Department of CommunicativeDisorders at Northern Illinois University. Since the mid-1970s, he has conducted researchon many aspects of developmental speech, language, and reading disorders. He haswritten several books with Hugh Catts on the connections between language and readingdisabilities as well as two books with Karen E. Pollock and Joyce Harris on communicationdevelopment and disorders in African American speakers. His current research focuseson how to use research and reason to make clinical decisions in the treatment of childrenwith speech, language, and literacy problems. He began a 3-year term as the LanguageEditor for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research in January 2004 andserved as Editor of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools from 1986 to 1992.

Jon F. Miller, Ph.D., is Director of the Language Analysis Laboratory at The Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published extensively in the areas of child language development and disorders, language assessment, and language intervention. In addition, he has been investigating early language development in children with Down syndrome in a longitudinal research project funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1988.

"Rose A. Sevcik, Ph.D., is Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University, Atlanta. Her research has focused on the language and communication development of children and youth with mental retardation and of great apes. Dr. Sevick has an extensive publication record and has given numerous presentations to national and international audiences. She is a fellow of the American Association on Mental Retardation and currently is the Associate Coordinator for ASHA's Special Interest Division on Augmentative and Alternative Communication. She is also Associate Editor for Language of the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research and Consulting Editor for Augmentative and Alternative Communication and the American Journal on Mental Retardation."

Donna J. Thal, Ph.D., holds a master of science degree in speech pathology and audiology from Brooklyn College and a doctorate in s