Rebecca J. McCauley, Ph.D.is a professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at The Ohio State University. Her research and writing have focused on assessment and treatment of pediatric communication disorders, with a special focus on speech sound disorders, including childhood apraxia of speech. She has authored or edited seven books on these topics and co-authored a test designed to aid in the differential diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech. Dr. McCauley is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, has received Honors of the Association, and has served two terms as an associate editor of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
Marc E. Fey, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, was emeritus professor for the Hearing and Speech Department at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He published numerous articles, chapters, and software programs on children’s speech and language development and disorders and wrote and edited three books on child-language intervention. He was editor of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology from 1996 to 1998 and Chair of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association's (ASHA) publications board from 2003 to 2005. He received the Kawana Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publications and the Honors of the Association from ASHA.
In Memory of Marc E. Fey
The field of communication sciences lost a remarkable leader when Marc Fey passed away on September 12, 2023. At Brookes, we will remember him as the dedicated Co-Series Editor of the Communication and Language Intervention (CLI) book series, which he helped direct and expand for many years. Marc was not only a series editor but also a volume editor/author. One of those titles, Treatment of Language Disorders in Children, now in its second edition and slated for a third, has become a classic text for speech-language pathologists, for its balanced examination of interventions for emerging communication and language as well as more advanced language and literacy. A strong supporter of evidence-based practice, Marc brought his passion for research and commitment to well-designed intervention studies to the selection process for the CLI series. Those books benefited from his keen editorial and writing skills. Our staff who had the pleasure of working with him will remember many enjoyable moments at CLI Board meetings and his collaborative, encouraging leadership. His legacy will live on in the volumes he helped to envision and create for the field, and the difference he made in the lives of so many children with speech and language disorders.
Ronald B. Gillam, Ph.D., Raymond L. and Eloise H. Lillywhite Professor, Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education, Utah State University, 1000 Old Main Hill, Logan, Utah 84322
Dr. Gillam's research, which has been funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the U.S. Department of Education, primarily concerns information processing, language assessment, and language intervention with school-age children with language impairments. Dr. Gillam has been the associate editor of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (1996–1999) and the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (2001–2004; 2010– 2013). In addition to publishing more than 130 articles and book chapters, Ron has published three tests and two other books—Memory and Language Impairment in Children and Adults (Aspen, 1988) and Communication Sciences and Disorders: From Science to Clinical Practice (co-edited with Thomas Marquardt & Fredrick Martin; Singular, 2000; Jones & Bartlett, 2010, 2015). Dr. Gillam's teaching and research awards include ASHA Fellow, the Hayden Williams Fellowship at Curtin University in Western Australia, and the Robins Award for the outstanding researcher at Utah State University.
Alan G. Kamhi, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders at Northern Illinois University. Since the mid-1970s, he has conducted research on many aspects of developmental speech, language, and reading disorders. He has written several books with Hugh Catts on the connections between language and reading disabilities as well as two books with Karen E. Pollock and Joyce Harris on communication development and disorders in African American speakers. His current research focuses on how to use research and reason to make clinical decisions in the treatment of children with speech, language, and literacy problems. He began a 3-year term as the Language Editor for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research in January 2004 and served as Editor of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools from 1986 to 1992.
