Speech-language Pathology

Carl Schneiderman is Director of Research Services at the Legacy Clinical Research & Technology Center, Legacy Health System in Portland Oregon. He has served in a wide variety of faculty and administrative positions in both higher education and healthcare. Before returning to his roots in the Pacific Northwest, he worked for 14 years as the Head of Rehabilitation Services at Children's Hospitals in Fresno and San Diego, California. Throughout the 90's he was a surveyor for the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities and was selected as a member of the National Advisory Committee on Standards for Pediatrics and Adolescents. Formerly he worked for almost 10 years with co-author Robert Potter as a member of the faculty in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Washington State University. He is also the author of Basic Anatomy and Physiology in Speech and Hearing. Robert Potter, ASHA Fellow, has been a therapist and an academician in a variety of settings including public school, medical school, Job Corp, private practice, metropolitan speech and hearing centers, and several universities. For most of his academic career, he was a member of the Washington State University Speech and Hearing Sciences Department, in which he served as either chair or program director for 21 years. After leaving WSU, where he is professor emeritus of Speech and Hearing Sciences, he joined the University of Oregon Communication Disorders Program where he was professor and senior research associate. He has published numerous articles in professional journals and has served as a grant reviewer and panelist for the Department of Education and ASHA and as an accreditation site visitor for the latter. A tribute to his pedagogical skills was recently noted by a Golden Apple Award in the ASHA Leader. Also, in recognition of his teaching, there is a classroom named in his honor at WSU.