Meet the experts

Victoria Bondurant (MS CCC-SLP) is a Speech-Language Pathologist at The Howard School in Atlanta, Georgia. This is her 8th year working in the high school serving students with language-based learning disabilities. She holds a M.S. in Communications Sciences & Disorders from Georgia State University and a BSEd in Communications Sciences & Disorders from the University of Georgia.

Andrea Salzman, MS, PT is the owner of Aquatic Therapy University, a continuing education provider for PT, OT, RT and SLP providers. In 2010, she codesigned one of the first courses “Aquatic Therapy for the SLP” for which ASHA granted continuing education hours. Salzman has spent the last 15 years expanding the role that speech and cognition activities play in aquatics.

Dr. Anne van Kleeck is Professor Emerita at the Callier Center for Communication Disorders in the School of Behavioral and Brain Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. Over the past 45 years, she has taught courses and conducted research on preschoolers’ language development and impairments, focusing particularly on the kinds of preschool oral language skills that provide critically important foundations for preschoolers’ later literacy achievement and academic success. Anne’s publications include 5 edited books (one also translated into Swedish), 25 book chapters, and nearly 50 journal articles. She has given over 250 invited and peer-reviewed presentations nationally and internationally. Over the course of her career, she has also been the major professor for a total of 45 master’s theses and doctoral dissertations. In November 2018, Dr. van Kleeck received the highest award given in her discipline for her career-long research accomplishments in language science, the Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). She has also been a Fellow of ASHA since 2013. Anne has twice received the Editor’s Award for the best article of the year in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (1994, 2014). In 2011, she received the International Reading Association’s Dina Feitelson Research Award.