Item One: Along with his collaborator and colleague
Dr.
Wayne A. Secord, Dr.
Damico received the Ohio State University Ruth Beckey Irwin Best Clinical
Practices Award on May 13, 1999.
Item Two: Dr. Damico's collaborator and colleague
Dr.
John Oller, Jr. has just
published the book Images that Work: Creating successful messages in
marketing and high stakes communication with J. Roland Giardetti.
It is
published by Quorum Books.
Item Three: On August 27th the University of Southwestern Louisiana
changed its name to
the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Item Four: Dr. Damico's research collaborator
and colleague Dr. Nina
Simmons-Mackie will receive the Louisiana Speech and Hearing
Association's Honors of the Association at the Fall 1999 Convention
in
Lafayette.
Item Five: The Department of Communicative
Disorders at the University of Louisiana
at Lafayette has submitted its proposal for a Doctor of Philosophy Degree
in Applied Language and Speech Sciences to the University
administration.
The proposal is slated to be brought to the Board of Supervisors of the
University of Louisiana System in September or October of 1999.
Item Six: The Department
of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana
at Lafayette has initiated a position search for a senior faculty
member with
a possible honor professorship title in September, 1999. The search
seeks a
senior-level professor with research and teaching experience in one of
the
following areas: augmentative and assistive communication,
neuropathologies, or phonology. The search will be open until January
2000 and the position will start in Fall 2000.
Item Seven: Dr. Damico's colleague Dr. Shalini Arehole
has been designated as the
Doris B. Hawthorne I Distinguished Professor at the
University of
Louisiana at Lafayette.
Item Eight: The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
(formerly the University of
Southwestern Louisiana) will celebrate it Centennial Year in 1999-
2000.
Item Nine: Dr. Damico's former colleague
and collaborator Dr. Lloyd Augustine
(who retired from the University of Southwestern Louisiana) is currently
an
adjunct professor at Brigham Young University.
Item Ten: Dr. Damico and
colleagues have the following publications slated for
appearance in the Fall of 1999:
Damico, J.S., Simmons-Mackie, N.N., Oelschlaeger, M., Elman, R., &
Armstrong, E. (In press). Qualitative methods in aphasia research:
Basic issues. Aphasiology.
Damico, J.S., Oelschlaeger, M., & Simmons-Mackie, N.N. (In press).
Qualitative methods in aphasia research: Conversation analysis.
Aphasiology.
Simmons-Mackie, N.N. & Damico, J.S. (In press). Qualitative methods
in aphasia research: Ethnography. Aphasiology.
Damico, J.S., Oller, Jr, J.W., & Tetnowski, J.A. (1999). Investigating
the interobserver reliability of a direct observational language
assessment technique. Advances in Speech-Langauge Pathology,
1,
77-94.
Simmons-Mackie, N.N., Damico, J.S., & Damico, H.L. (1999). A
qualitative study of feedback in aphasia therapy. American Journal
of Speech-Langauge Pathology.
Item Eleven: In recognition of
the Centennial year at the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette, Dr. Damico and his wife have created and funded the Hula
and Tony Damico Endowed Scholarship in Communicative Disorders.
This endowed scholarship will be awarded each year to an excellent
upper division undergaduate student in Communicative Disorders at the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
2000-2001
Item One: Dr. Damico's collaborator and colleague,
Dr.
John Tetnowski, has recently
received tenure at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Item Two: In the Fall 2000, two new faculty
members joined the CODI faculty at the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Dr. Martin J. Ball,
formerly of the
University of Ulster, accepted the Hawthorne BORSF Distinguished
Professor II position and Dr. Nicole Muller, formerly of the
University
of Cardiff, accepted an adjunct professor position. Both of these
individuals are fine professionals, researchers and educators with
international reputations. They make an excellent addition to our
faculty.
Item Three: The Department of Communicative Disorders at the
University of Louisiana at
Lafayette was awarded a grant in the Governor's Departmental Excellence
through Faculty Excellence grant competition under the auspices
of the
Louisiana Board of Regents for Higher Education. Specifically
acknowledged with Dr. John Oller, Dr. Martin Ball, Dr. Shalini Arehole,
Dr. John Tetnowski, and Dr. Jack Damico.
Item Four: Dr. Damico's research collaborator/colleague
Dr.
Nina Simmons-Mackie
was named as a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association
at the Fall 2000 National Convention in Washington, D.C.
Item Five: Dr. Damico's colleague and collaborator,
Dr.
Mary Oelschlaeger, has
recently received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at Northern
Arizona University.
Item Six: In the Fall of
2000, the Department of Communicative Disorders at the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette added two clinical faculty to its
staff. Ms. Carol Harer has accepted the position as the Director
of
Clinical Services and Ms. Cheryl McDaniel has accepted a position
as
a Clinical supervisor.
Item Seven: Work is progressing on the initiation of the
Doctor of Philosophy Degree in
Applied Language and Speech Sciences within the Department
of
Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
The
final proposal has been accepted by the Louisiana Board of Regents for
Higher Education and a review panel will be on-site in March, 2001.
It
is hoped that the program will be approved and will enroll the first
students in Fall 2001.
Item Eight: Through the efforts of Dr. John Tetnowski
and Dr. John Oller, the
Department of Communicative Disorders received three important
equipment grants totalling over $125,000. One was a scientific
equipment grant for research instrumentation, one was for enhancing
the department's primary teaching classroom, and the final grant was
for enhanced video equipment in the departmental clinic. With these
grants, the department now has state-of-the-art instrumentation in the
speech science laboratory, in the classroom and within the clinical
units.
Item Nine: The University of Louisiana
is currently celebrating its Centennial
Year as an Institution of Higher Education.
Item Ten: With the hiring of Dr.
Martin Ball, The University of Louisiana at
Lafayette is now the home of the International journal Clinical
Linguistics and Phonetics.
Dr. Ball is the Founding Editor of the
journal and, along with Dr. Tom Powell, is the current Co-Editor
of the journal.
Item Eleven: During the Summer of 2000 Dr. Damico served as a
mentor under the
auspices of the American Speech and Hearing Foundation's Research
in Higher Education Mentoring Stipend Program. Ms. Marnie
Madden at Northern Arizona University worked with Dr. Damico
on a study of laughter as a communicative strategy by an individual
with aphasia.
Item Twelve: In January 2001, Dr. Damico and Dr. Oller were visited
by Dr. Knut Erik
Aagaard and Dr. Espen Egeberg from Norway. These researchers
were
funded by the Norwegian government and visited five locations in the United
States and Canada to discuss innovative langauge assessment procedures
for
children from diverse backgrounds.