RT-31 FACULTY AND STAFF Left to Right:
Steven Boone, Debra Hagen-Foley, Sharon Sabik, Amy Hebert, John Schroedel, Katie Becker, Glenn Anderson, Cheryl Wilcox, Douglas Watson, and Wanda Simon

The Arkansas Rehabilitation RTC for Persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing has established itself as a nationally recognized leader in the field of deafness rehabilitation as a result of the expertise, productivity, and responsiveness of its faculty. Each faculty member has from 3 to 33 years of prior research and training experience in the rehabilitation of persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. In addition, the majority have prior training and experience in direct service to persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. The fields of rehabilitation counseling, counselor education, clinical, industrial/organizational and educational psychology, sociology, and vocational evaluation and placement are represented.

Individual RT-31 faculty members have held offices, editorships, board, and committee appointments in consumer, deafness rehabilitation, and related organizations at the local, state, and national levels. Examples of positions faculty members hold now or recently held include: Editorial Boards of the American Annals of the Deaf, Journal of the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association; Rehabilitation Education; Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal; Volta Review; Perspectives in Education and Deafness; Institute on Rehabilitation Issues; Academy of Management Review; and Journal of Disability Policy Studies; and Editor of the Arkansas Association of the Deaf Newsletter. Others hold membership and/or regularly consult with the board(s) of various state and national consumer organizations representing persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, or late deafened; some serve in important leadership roles in postsecondary education programs, such as chairman of the board of trustees at Gallaudet University, while still others have served (for the past 15 years) as consultant(s) to the Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation Standing Committee on Services to Individuals with Hearing Impairments.

In addition to conducting extensive training programs throughout the nation, key faculty members have provided technical assistance and expert consultation to public and private agencies and programs in areas such as rehabilitation of multiply and severely disabled persons who are deaf or deaf-blind, social skills training, psychological assessment, mental health rehabilitation, vocational evaluation, job development and placement, transition from school to work, and postsecondary education of students who are deaf. Additional topics have included ADA implementation, career information and guidance, job seeking skills training, employer development, service needs of culturally diverse populations, family counseling, information and referral services, deaf community development, consumer education services, peer counseling, development of quality assurances in service to persons who are deaf, and development of statewide service delivery system for persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. These faculty have also had active roles in consulting with various consumer and parent organizations and programs by participating in planning and conducting consumer-directed activities and programs.

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