Elisabeth H. Wiig, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita, Boston University and President of Knowledge Research Institute, an independent research and consulting firm. She holds ASHA-CCC in Speech-Pathology and Audiology; is a Fellow of ASHA; and the recipient of the ASHA Foundation 2001 Frank R. Kleffner Career Award. She is author/co-author of language tests (e.g., CELF-4, CELF-4 Screening Test , CELF-Preschool ) and texts and has published more than 80 articles in professional journals. Her recent research of RAN screening for parietal-lobe dysfunction led to the development and publication of the Alzheimer Quick Test: Assessment of Parietal Dysfunction (Wiig, Nielsen, Minthon, & Warkentin, 2002). In 2005 Dr. Wiig was awarded the ASHA Honors of the Association Award -- ASHA's most prestigious honor.
Wayne A. Secord, Ph.D., is currently the Provost’s distinguished service professor in communicative disorders at the University of Central Florida. An ASHA Fellow, he has authored or co-authored numerous articles, books, tests and intervention programs on assessment and treatment of speech and language disorders. Dr. Secord served as the editor of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools from 1992 to 1998. A native of western New York, Dr. Secord is a frequent conference presenter and a nationally recognized expert on clinical and educational assessment and the delivery of school-based services.
Eleanor Semel, Ed.D., is Professor Emerita at Boston University and is nationally recognized for her pioneering work in the field of learning disabilities.She is the co-author of widely used standardized tests such as the CELF-4, CELF-4 Screening Test and CELF-Preschool. Additional undertakings include co-authoring language and learning disabilities textbooks, numerous journal articles, as well as many intervention programs such as: The Clinical Language Intervention Programs including CLIP Syntax, Morphology, Semantic,Pragmatic Worksheets and the Clinical Language Intervention Program-Preschool.Her recent endeavor includes consultant work at Salk Institute-Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience where she explored Williams Syndrome, a rare geneticdisorder with a distinct language and behavioral profile. This in-depth researchled to the publication of "Understanding Williams Syndrome: Behavioral Patterns and Intervention" (Semel and Rosner, 2003).