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2008 Faculty & Staff Award Winners
The 2008-2009 Distinguished Faculty Award for Service for the College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences went to Teresa Boggs, MS, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Clinical Director of Speech-Language Pathology. She was presented the award at the College’s Faculty/Staff Picnic on August 20, 2008 by the Dean of our college, Dr. Nancy Scherer.
Mrs. Boggs has developed a program for children, on the autism spectrum, and their parents that provides comprehensive communication and behavioral training for the children and their families and is an essential program for the tri-cities region. She goes beyond the traditional role as a speech-language pathologist by providing guidance, referrals and resources for families and even a shoulder to lean on. She has assisted parents to form a parent group and developed a website to provide parents with information of intervention programs for children with autism and recently organized an art show at the Princeton Art Center for one of the children. Her dedication to and aptitude for her position is commendable.
The 2008-2009 Distinguished Faculty Award for Research for the College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences went to Dr. Kerry Proctor-Williams who was recently tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders, and serves as the Graduate Coordinator for Speech-Language Pathology. She was presented the award at the College’s Faculty/Staff Picnic on August 20, 2008 by the Dean of our college, Dr. Nancy Scherer.
Dr. Proctor-Williams has a well defined program of research in the area of child language intervention, has an established publication record in the most prominent professional speech and hearing journals and she received an R15 AREA grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders. This research has potential clinical significance in that it may help determine language intervention dosage rates. Also, Dr. Proctor-Williams has received research funding through the ETSU Research and Development and demonstrated her ability to mentor student research as evidenced by the awards her student groups have received in the Appalachian Student Research Forum.
Dr. Proctor-Williams has consistently demonstrated outstanding collegiality in her research efforts with departmental students and faculty colleagues, as well as faculty from other departments at ETSU and other universities.
The 2008-2009 Outstanding Staff Service Award for the College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences went to Kay Benincasa, Secretary in the Department of Allied Health Sciences. She was presented the award at the College’s Faculty/Staff Picnic on August 20, 2008 by the Dean of our college, Dr. Nancy Scherer.
Mrs. Benincasa consistently goes above and beyond her normal responsibilities in dealing with the applications for each of Allied Health Sciences programs, she assumed the responsibility for student admission and routinely remains at work after hours in order to fulfill her duties. Mrs. Benincasa performs her duties with a high degree of professionalism and is extremely student oriented and enjoys interaction with the students. Her dedication to her position sets an example for others to follow.