A Conversation with Donna Smiley, Chief Staff Officer for Audiology, at ASHA!
Release Date: 01/04/2024
A Conversation with Joanna Trimble Smith, Co-Founder & former CEO of Hearts for Hearing!
The Listening Brain
Joanna Trimble Smith was a co-founder and served as Chief Executive Officer from 2011 through March of 2024 of Hearts for Hearing in Oklahoma City, whose mission is to create life-changing opportunities for children and adults with hearing loss to listen for a lifetime. Joanna graduated from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and as a speech-language pathologist, she has spent 47 years improving the lives of children and adults with hearing loss or communication delays. Ms. Smith was the Executive Director of the Hearing Enrichment Language Program before co-founding Hearts for...
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A Conversation with Claudia Marseille, Abstract Artist & Author!
The Listening Brain
At age four, I was diagnosed with a severe hearing loss. With determination and the help of powerful hearing aids, I learned to hear, speak and lipread with ten years of speech therapy and lipreading training. I was mainstreamed in public schools in Berkeley, CA. After earning master’s degrees in archaeology and in public policy, and finally an MFA, I developed a career in photography and painting, a profession compatible with a hearing loss. I ran a fine art portrait photography studio for fifteen years before becoming a full-time abstract painter. My paintings are represented by the...
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A Conversation with Pam Talbot of Language Launchers!
The Listening Brain
Pam is dually certified as an SLP and Teacher of the Deaf with LSLS-AVT certification. She has presented, trained, and mentored professionals internationally for many years. Pam continues to provide direct AV therapy, parent training, and consultations virtually in addition to her role as a program coordinator/trainer in a school for the deaf in New York. Blog: TPT Store: Contact info: _______________________ You can listen to this episode wherever you stream podcasts and at
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A Conversation with Louanne Saraga-Walters of Listen Foundation!
The Listening Brain
As Executive Director of Listen Foundation, Louanne brings more than two decades of nonprofit, fundraising, and executive management experience to the Foundation. She has worked with nonprofits of all sizes and is an experienced fundraising and board governance professional. She is a former Financial Advisor with Raymond James & Associates, and specializes in helping nonprofit organizations build their philanthropic capacity. Louanne and her wife moved from Tampa Bay to Denver in 2019, and fell in love with Colorado. Listen Foundation was incorporated in 1969...
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A Conversation with Maria Fernanda Hinojosa Valencia!
The Listening Brain
María Fernanda Hinojosa Valencia holds a PhD Laude in Education Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Neurolinguistics from the Colegio Superior de Neurolingüística in Mexico and a Bachelor's Degree in Educational Psychology from the Spanish Ministry of Education. She is a certified hearing and oral language specialist in Auditory-Verbal Therapy from the Alexander Graham Bell Academy, where she is a board member and co-chair of the Global Affairs Committee. She oversees Auditory-Verbal Therapy within the Spanish-Speaking Family Program at the...
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A Conversation with Mary D. McGinnis!
The Listening Brain
Mary McGinnis is a teacher of the deaf and Listening and Spoken Language Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist. She is the former Director of the John Tracy Clinic Graduate Program, and continues to teach auditory-verbal courses for the JTC Graduate Program. She’s also a consultant for Aurea Lab in Mexico City, working with families and professionals, and helping to create assessment materials in Spanish. She has worked with children with hearing differences and their families for over 55 years, with experience teaching infants through adults, and families from around the world. She was a...
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A Conversation with Carly Sygrove, Hearing Loss Coach!
The Listening Brain
Carly Sygrove is a and a hearing health writer who has single-sided deafness. She writes about living with hearing loss at and manages an for people with hearing loss. She is also the founder of the website, a source of information and support for people affected by sudden hearing loss. In her previous career, Carly worked for 14 years as an Early Years teacher in various countries, including the UK, China, Thailand, and Spain, where she currently lives with her partner, Stuart. Outside of hearing health advocacy, Carly enjoys yoga, baking, and walking in the Spanish countryside. ...
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A Conversation with Erin Thompson, of the Children's Cochlear Implant Center at UNC-Chapel Hill!
The Listening Brain
Erin Thompson, M.S., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert AVT has been working with the Children's Cochlear Implant Center at UNC since July 2004. She earned her Bachelors from Appalachian State University and her Master’s in Speech and Hearing Sciences from UNC-Chapel Hill. She completed her clinical fellowship year with Pediatric Speech and Language Services out of Greensboro and became a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist in 2009. Erin conducts Listening and Spoken Language parent participation sessions, speech and language diagnostics for children who are deaf and hard of hearing, as well as...
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A Conversation with Sydney Bassard, The Listening SLP!
The Listening Brain
Sydney Bassard, MSP, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist who specializes in working with individuals who are Deaf and hard of hearing and literacy. She owns The Listening SLP, her private practice and social media brand. Sydney creates graphics to promote healthy equity of information. ________________________________ You can listen to this episode wherever you stream podcasts and at
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A Conversation with Paige Stringer of the Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss!
The Listening Brain
Paige Stringer, M.A., M.P.H -- Paige is the Founder and Executive Director of the Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss. Born with a severe to profound hearing loss, Paige benefitted from early identification and early intervention services as a baby to learn to listen and speak. In 2009, she established the Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss (GFCHL) to help young children who are deaf or hard of hearing and living in developing countries access the locally-based services that they need to listen, talk, and thrive. Prior to her current role as the...
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Donna Smiley, Ph.D., CCC-A is the Chief Staff Officer for Audiology at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She works with the ASHA teams in Audiology Practices, Accreditation, Certification and Ethics. Prior to coming to ASHA, she was the coordinator for the Educational Audiology/Speech Pathology Resources for Schools (EARS) Program at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Dr. Smiley has practiced audiology for 33 years, co-authored a textbook about school-based audiology practice (Title: School-Based Audiology; Plural Publishing) and was named a Fellow of ASHA in 2018. She received her Ph.D. in Hearing Science from the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
Websites and contacts info:
ASHA Action Center: Contact the ASHA National Office; OR by phone 800-498-2071 (members) and 800-638-8255 (non-members)
Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Toolkit (asha.org)
Demonstrating Your Value (asha.org)
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