The Scientific Advisory Board Guiding LENA Development

William J. Barbaresi, M.D.

• Associate Professor of Pediatrics
• Chair, Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
• Co-Director, Mayo Clinic-Dana Child Development and Learning Disorders Program

Charles R. Greenwood, Ph.D.

• Director and Senior Scientist, Juniper Gardens Children’s Project, University of Kansas
• Published in scientific and professional literatures 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 Brain and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Robust Speech Systems
• Coordinator, IEEE Signal Processing
• Distinguished Lecturer (2005-06) University of Texas at Dallas Electrical Engineering

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

• 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

Partha Niyogi, Ph.D.

• Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago
• Ph.D., Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
• Bell Laboratories

D. Kimbrough Oller, Ph.D.

• Professor and Plough Chair of Excellence, School of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, University of Memphis
• Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Steve F. Warren, Ph.D.

• Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies, University of Kansas
• Director of the Kansas Mental Retardation and Development Disabilities Research Center
• Professor of Human Development and Family Life, University of Kansas