The Scientific Advisory Board Guiding LENA Development

Charles R. Greenwood, Ph.D.

  • Director and Senior Scientist, Juniper Gardens Children’s Project, University of Kansas
  • Published in scientific and professional journals regarding behavior analysis, special education, early education and more

John H.L. Hansen, Ph.D.

  • Department Chair and Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
  • Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications Engineering
  • Professor, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Center for Robust Speech Systems
  • Coordinator, IEEE Signal Processing
  • Distinguished Lecturer (2005-06), Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas

Judith K. Montgomery, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

  • Professor, Program Director, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Chapman University
  • Professor, Department of Special Education and Literacy, Chapman University
  • President of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in 1995
  • President of the CEC Division of Communication Disorders and Deafness in 2004-05
  • Author of seven books and over 150 journal articles and presentations in speech-language pathology
  • Editor-in-Chief, Communication Disorders Quarterly

D. Kimbrough Oller, Ph.D.

  • Professor and Plough Chair of Excellence, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis
  • Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
  • External Faculty Member, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria
  • Author of five books and over 150 journal articles and publications

Keith J. Topping

  • Professor, School of Education, Social Work, and Community Education, University of Dundee, Scotland
  • Director, Centre for Peer Learning, a developer of tutoring systems for use by parents, peers, volunteers, and others
  • Former Director of the Higher Education Effective Learning Project, a peer-assisted learning program for students in college and university
  • 2011 Recipient of the AERA Cooperative Learning SIG Award
  • Published over 300 works, including books, chapters, peer-reviewed journal papers, and distance learning packages

Steven F. Warren, Ph.D.

  • Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies, University of Kansas
  • Professor, Department of Applied Behavioral Science, University of Kansas
  • Former Director of the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies
  • Author of more than 130 journal articles and publications
  • Research interests: early communication and language development; intervention and prevention of intellectual disabilities

Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, Ph.D., CCC-A

  • Professor of Audiology, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Institute of Cognitive Science, Center for Neurosciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder; Department of Otolaryngology and Audiology at the University of Colorado, Denver and the Marion Downs Hearing Center.
  • Ph.D., Audiology and Hearing Impairment, Northwestern University
  • Conducted research in the areas of language, speech, and social-emotional development of deaf and hard-ofhearing infants and children for over thirty years.
  • Research interests: the impact of early-identification and early intervention on the developmental outcomes of children with significant hearing loss

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