Communication Sciences and Disorders

B.A., Elmira College

M.A., Ph.D., Kent State University

Dr. James has been an audiologist and a teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing since 1979, and joined Elms College in 1998. She has taught at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels, and has served as director of audiology programs in educational and clinical settings. In addition, Dr. James served as a clinical audiologist in private practice and chief of audiology at Harbor Hospital Center in Baltimore, Maryland, where she performed intra-operative monitoring and was on the team that performed the first cochlear implant in Maryland. She has been a grant reviewer, president of the Maryland Academy of Audiology, and currently serves on the executive board of the Massachusetts Academy of Audiology. Dr. James has presented to international, national, and regional professional meetings, and has published on discourse analysis and on audiological assessment. Her areas of expertise include program development, aural rehabilitation, and amplification.

M.S., Emerson College
Ph.D., Boston University
Dr. Gould is currently studying the effects of aging on the formation of inferences in language processing. Starting in 1997, he spent four years as a practicing speech-language pathologist specializing in geriatric populations. He also conducted research as a technical assistant in the Speech and Hearing Laboratory at MIT. Dr. Gould has extensive training in linguistics and language education.

B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph.D., University of California and University of San Francisco

Kathleen Dyer is the clinical director of the River Street Autism Program at Coltsville in Hartford, Connecticut and a nationally-recognized expert in autism. A licensed speech-language pathologist and board-certified behavior analyst, she has taught and served children with autism for more than 25 years, and has collaborated with pioneers in the field including Ivar Lovaas, Robert Koegel, and Andy Bondy.

She has been on the faculty of several colleges and universities, including the University of Massachusetts and Temple University, and her research and training techniques have been disseminated at national and international conferences and in more than 30 research articles, book chapters, encyclopedias, and books.

She has recently worked with the Connecticut Department of Education to develop guidelines for the characteristics of effective autism treatment.

B.A., M.A., University of Massachusetts
David Bickford worked as a speech-language pathologist and supervisor at the former Belchertown State School from 1976 to 1984, and for the New Medico Head Injury Systems facility in Northampton from 1984 to 1993. He joined Valley Rehabilitation in 1993, working as a speech-language pathologist in skilled nursing facilities throughout Western Massachusetts. He is employed currently as a speech-language pathologist at the Park View Specialty Hospital in Springfield. He joined the Elms College adjunct faculty in 2004.

B.A., Rhode Island College
M.A., University of Connecticut
Angela Mansolillo has been a speech-language pathologist since 1985. She has practiced in a variety of settings, including hospital, homecare, school systems, and skilled nursing facilities. She lectures nationally on the topic of dysphagia assessment and intervention, and recently earned specialty certification in swallowing and swallowing disorders from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She joined the Elms College adjunct faculty in 1998. In addition to serving as adjunct faculty, Angela is also responsible for providing clinical supervision to student clinicians. She is currently a speech-language pathologist at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton.