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peopLe Elected Rachel Wynn, a speech-language pathologist and patient-centered health care activist in Boulder, Colorado, was elected to the Board of Directors of the Colorado HealthOp, a nonprofit, member-governed health insurance company available on Colorado Health Exchange health insurance marketplace. Rachel Wynn In the news Suzanne Boyce, professor of communication sciences and disorders at the University of Cincinnati, was quoted in two reports on the use of ultrasound to remediate the /r/: a Nov. 17 segment on WVXU, a Cincinnati public radio station (bit.ly/wvxu-r), and CBS affiliate WKRC-TV (bit.ly/wkrc-r). Suzanne Boyce Named Nan Bernstein Ratner, professor in the University of Maryland Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of her work in the psychology of language learning in typically developing children and children with communication disorders. As an ASHA liaison to AAAS, Ratner has coordinated sessions at its annual meetings on research developments in a variety of communication disorders. She also was recently named presidentelect of the International Fluency Association. Nan Bernstein Ratner Deaths James "Red" LeRoy Aten, 83, on Nov. 9, 2014, in Laguna Beach, California, from natural causes following a series of strokes. During his time in the U.S. Navy as a tailhook pilot, Aten attended the University of Redlands, earning a bachelor's in psychology and master's in speech pathology. He then earned a doctorate in speechlanguage pathology at the University of Washington. Over a career of more than 50 years, he was on the faculty at San Jose State College; the University of California, Irvine; California State University, Long Beach; and the University of Denver. He also worked at the Seattle VA Medical Center and was chief of speech pathology and audiology at the Long Beach VA Hospital. He continued in private practice after his retirement. Aten was a consultant to the cleft palate team at Children's Hospital and Craig Rehabilitation in Denver and a member of the Communication Sciences and Disorders Program Board of Councilors at Chapman University in Orange, California. With Deborah Swain, he published the Denver Auditory Phoneme Sequencing Test. A Fellow of ASHA and the California Speech-Language-Hearing Association, he was associate editor of the Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders and a member of the Academy of Aphasia. James "Red" LeRoy Aten Marie Love Johnson, 88, on Nov. 24, 2014, in Indianapolis. Johnson received a bachelor's degree from Indiana University and a master's degree from the University of Hartford. She was the first African American to receive a PhD in speech-language pathology from the University of Connecticut. Johnson began her career in the East Hartford public schools as the sole clinician in the school system. When she retired as director of the East Hartford speech and hearing program, she led a staff of 17 SLPs, a teacher of the deaf, and seven Marie Love Johnson 20 February 2015 | THe aSHa Le aDer http://www.bit.ly/wvxu-r http://www.bit.ly/wkrc-r

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