President

Dr. Lucy Xueman Liu is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas and the president of Bethel Hearing and Speaking Training Center Inc. She is also a fellow and a committee member of the International Committee at the American Academy of Audiology (AAA). Dr. Liu is a formal overseas consultant for China Rehabilitation and Research Center for Deaf Children (CRRCDC).  Liu has set up a comprehensive hearing screening program and an aural rehabilitation mentor program for THERAPY 2000, one of the largest pediatric home health agencies in Texas and has been a clinical and research consultant for THERAPY 2000 from 2003 to 2014.  Besides providing audiology and speech-language pathology diagnostic and treatment services, she also mentors therapists and graduate students in the field of aural rehabilitation.  Dr. Liu also provides regular professional continuing education unit (CEU) trainings in both speech-language pathology and audiology throughout Texas and has spoken in various national and international conferences.  Fluent in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese; she has taught and provided audiological and speech-language consultation for major hospitals and rehabilitation centers; such as Tongren Hospital, CRRCDC, China Rehabilitation and Research Center (CRRC), Beijing Bayi pediatric hospital, the 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, and Sichuan Bayi Rehabilitation Hospital, etc. . 

advancement council

Dr. Jackie Clark is currently a Clinical Associate Professor at UT Dallas’ School of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, and teaches a number of classes in the AuD program. She has also been awarded the appointment as a Research Scholar at the University of The Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Some other universities that she consults and collaborates with include: University of Nairobi in Kenya; University of Pretoria in South Africa; and TongRen Hospital/Univeristy of Beijing.  She maintains her international perspective through a number of outlets which include: co-founder of the Not-for-Profit Coalition for Global Hearing Health; the Managing Editor of The International Journal of Audiology; and also as the Humanitarian Audiologist Committee Chair within the International Society and Audiology. Because of her international perspective, she has consulted with, as well as created guidelines for the World Health Organization on various areas of activities. She has authored many invited peer reviewed research articles, some book chapters, and has been invited to lecture in many parts of the world.  Dr. Clark is currently a co-editor of a monthly column entitled “Audiology Without Borders” found in The Hearing Journal (a Wolter-Klower’s Publication).

Laurel T. Lynch is a faculty member and clinical supervisor at the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth Texas.   She has worked as a speech-language pathologist in the acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient, and school settings; working with disorders such as dysphagia, aphasia, swallowing, motor speech disorders, and cognitive disorders.  She has consulted and trained with orphanages and hospitals in China on cleft palate and swallowing disorders.  She and Dr. Jennifer Watson have spearheaded TCU’s first Study Abroad program to China for Speech Language Pathology students.  She has had a unique passion for China and its people since her daughter expressed her fascination with the culture in 1998.  She has traveled extensively through China.

Education council

Dr. Brooke Hallowell is Executive Director of the Collaborative on Aging, Professor and Coordinator of Ph.D. Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Director of the Neurolinguistics Laboratory at Ohio University. Previously, she served as Associate Dean for Research and Sponsored Programs in Ohio University’s College of Health and Human Services and Director of the School of Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences. Her primary expertise is in neurogenic communication disorders in adults, including aphasia, dementia, and age-related communication issues.  Hallowell has substantial support for her research through the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other agencies. She chaired the first-ever Global Summit on Higher Education in Communication Sciences and Disorders in 2012 and is deeply engaged in developing new academic and clinical programs, especially in underserved regions. She is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Past President of the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CAPCSD), 2013 recipient of ASHA’s Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Contributions in International Achievement, and 2014 recipient of the CAPCSD Honors of the Council. She is engaged in research and academic program development in several universities and clinical agencies in China.

Dr. Jennifer B. Watson is Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth Texas. At TCU, Dr. Watson provides didactic and clinical instruction in the nature and treatment of stuttering. A Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Dr. Watson has served as ASHA Vice President of Standards and Ethics in Speech-Language Pathology, Chair of ASHA’s Council of Specialty Recognition, Vice-Chair of the Council of Academic Accreditation, Associate Coordinator of the Steering Committee for ASHA’s Fluency and Fluency Disorders Division, and Legislative Councilor for Texas. 

global information council

Wendy K. Lee is an adjunct faculty at University of Texas at Dallas.  She is also the vice president of Bethel Hearing and Speaking Training Center Inc.(Bethel). She has worked as a speech-language pathologist in the acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient, and home health rehabilitation settings; working with disorders such as dysphagia, aphasia, motor speech disorders, and cognitive disorders. Ms. Lee specializes in helping patients with neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, regain and maintain their voices.  Ms. Lee was part of a team of pioneers that helped establish Peking University’s very first year of their Total (English) Immersion Program. She participated in curriculum development and led diction sessions.  She has served as the assistant coordinator for Bethel international training projects and provided training at China’s Rehabilitation and Research Center (CRRC) and Bayi pediatric hospital with Bethel’s expert team. 

Dr. Linda J. Louko is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She specializes in speech sound development and disorders, as well as the relationship between stuttering and disordered phonology. Dr. Louko has given presentations on clinical issues, international issues, phonological disorders, and stuttering at numerous conferences and has published articles on the stuttering-phonology relationship. As Co-Director of the Iowa-China Project, she has travelled extensively in China to educate MA-SLP and AuD students about that country and the SLP/Audiology services there, as well as to engage them in work for children who live in orphanages. The Iowa-China Project is also involved with educating professionals in China about audiology and speech-language pathology in the United States. In Iowa, with her colleague Dr. Patricia Zebrowski, she has developed and sustained a project in the Columbus Junction (IA) School District for the past 4 years. Specifically, this public engagement project came about as a result of the significant need for supplemental programming in literacy for their preschool children, along with severely limited resources. School personnel report that the combination of language factors (including non-English speaking children), limited parent education, poverty, and lack of regular access to literature in English have contributed to substantially depressed reading abilities. Dr. Louko has been an active member of the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders, having served on the Convention Planning Committee for two years and on the Global Outreach Initiative Committee. She has also served as President-Elect, President, and Past-President of the Iowa Speech-Language-Hearing Association over a 6 year period and is currently Vice-President of the Iowa Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation. Dr. Louko received her master's degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her Ph.D. from Syracuse University.

research council

Dr. Jack Jiang is Professor, Division of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also the Director of International Collaborative Research for the Department of Surgery, and has been an adjunct professor at Fudan University in China since 1996. Dr. Jiang’s research focuses on objective pathological laryngeal function assessments, laryngeal physiology, biomechanics of vocal fold vibration, medical instrumentation, medical software development and application.  He has published more than 220 original articles in the area of voice measurement and disorders, and serves on the editorial boards for the Laryngoscope, Journal of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology, and the Journal of Voice. He is an ASHA fellow and serves on the ASHA publication board.  He was also awarded the PECASE award and Chang Jiang scholar title in China.

Dr. Emily Tobey currently is Professor and Nelle C. Johnston Chair at the University of Texas at Dallas, as well as, Vice Provost for Faculty Development in the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost and Assistant Vice President in the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement. Dr. Tobey served as a Distinguished Lecturer-in-at Texas Woman's University and as a visiting research scholar at the Australian Bionic Ear and Hearing Research Institute of the University of Melbourne, the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Center of Nottingham, England and the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Montpellier, France. She was named Distinguished Academy Scientist by the Louisiana Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association and Acoustical Society of America. In 2001, she was named the University of Texas at Dallas Polykarp Kusch Lecturer: the highest honor an individual faculty member can receive from the University. She served as a Distinguished Lecturer for Sigma Xi, the nation’s honorary research society from 2008-2010 and in 2011, she received the Honors of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association, the highest honor awarded by the Association, for career achievements.  She has held external funding from the NIH and other external resources continuously since 1975 and has published over 100 manuscripts.

CCCH Strategy Advisor 

Dr. Margaret Rogers has served as the Chief Staff Officer for Science and Research at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association since 2007. Previously, she was an Associate Professor and the Associate Chair of the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Washington. She earned her doctorate from the University of Iowa in 1992 and has been an ASHA-certified Speech-Language Pathologist since 1986. Her research includes cognitive modeling and neural imaging of spoken language production, identifying the nature of spoken language production impairments in aphasia, apraxia of speech, and primary progressive aphasia, and intervention research. She has served as a member and as chair of the Sensory Communications grant review panel for the Veterans Affairs Administration and as an ad hoc reviewer for the National Institute for Deafness and other Communication Disorders. She is also an ASHA Fellow.