Experts Directory: Disability Issues
Janet Adams
Department of Physical Therapy
work: (818) 677-3107
email: janet.adams@csun.edu
- Gait analysis
- Electromyography
- Doctoral preparation in the California State University system
- Author: “Gait Analysis in Rett Syndrome: Changes with Age”
Wendy Ashley
Department of Social Work
work: (818) 677-7630
email: wendy.ashley@csun.edu
- Individual, couples and family therapy, specifically identity, trauma and relational issues
- Autism
- Veterans
- African Americans
- Transgender individuals
- Intersectionality, power and privilege
Ronald M. Borczon
Department of Music
Director, Music Therapy Clinic
work: (818) 677-3174 / 3184
email: rborczon@csun.edu
- Music therapy
- Music therapy with adult and adolescent psychiatric clients
- Music therapy with developmentally disabled clients
- Music therapy with various populations
- Music therapy for victims of disasters
Learn more about Ronald M. Borczon:
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Michele Haney
Department of Special Education
CHIME Institute
work: (818) 677-3874 / 2596
email: michele.haney@csun.edu
- Infant development
- Early childhood special education
- Families of children with special needs
- Mother/child interaction
- Early intervention within a bilingual/multicultural context
- Policy development relative to children
Learn more about MIchele Haney:
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Amy Hanreddy
Department of Special Education
work: (818) 677-2522
email: amy.n.hanreddy@csun.edu
- Inclusion of students with disabilities in general education classrooms
- Media representations of individuals with disabilities
- Co-teaching
- Universal Design for Learning
- Consulting with TV/film producers and writers on disability representations, script consultations and connections to relevant disability organizations
- CHIME Institute
- Co-Author: “Teaching Communications Skills to Students with Severe Disabilities”
Beth Lasky
Department of Special Education
work: (818) 677-2725
email: beth.lasky@csun.edu
- Delivering good instruction from kindergarten to adult education
- Diversity in education
- Inclusion of students with disabilities in schools, including colleges and universities
- Instructing students with disabilities
- Second-language learners
Learn more about Beth Lasky:
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Sheryl Low
Department of Physical Therapy
work: (818) 677-7256
email: sheryl.low@csun.edu
Also speaks: some Spanish
- Developmental disabilities
- Children with disabilities
- Pediatric physical therapy
- Cerebral palsy
Debra Berry Malmberg
Department of Psychology
work: (818) 677-6338
- Autism
- Applied behavior analysis
- Developmental psychology
- Parent education
Wendy Murawski
Department of Special Education
Executive Director & Eisner Endowed Chair, Center for Teaching and Learning
work: (818) 677-7037 /2596
email: wendy.murawski@csun.edu
Also speaks: German
- Collaborative teaching
- Co-teaching
- Learning disabilities
- Team teaching
- Staff development for teachers
- Inclusive education for students with mild/moderate disabilities
Learn more about Wendy Murawski:
Peggy Roller
Department of Physical Therapy
work: (818) 677-4684
email: peggy.roller@csun.edu
Also speaks: some French
- Adult neurological rehabilitation
- Vestibular rehabilitation
- Vestibular dysfunction
- Balance examination and training
- Functional training
- Stroke
- Brain injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Parkinson’s disease
Carrie L. Saetermoe
Department of Psychology
work: (818) 677-3506
email: carrie.saetermoe@csun.edu
- Developmental psychology
- Pediatric psychology
- Ethnic dimensions of adolescent disability and transition to adulthood
- Pediatric oncology patients
- Aging
- Disability
- Welfare reform and children’s well-being
Learn more about Carrie L. Saetermoe:
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J. Stephen Sinclair
Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences
work: (818) 677-2852
email: steve.sinclair@csun.edu
- Hearing loss
- Occupational and non-occupational hearing disability
- Amplification and auditory rehabilitation
- Noise
- Expert witness in audiology
- Industrial noise exposure
- Head trauma and hearing loss
- Discrimination against deaf and hearing impaired under Americans with Disabilities Act
- Worker compensation for occupational hearing loss
Learn more about Stephen Sincllair:
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Elizabeth G. Weber
Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences
work: (818) 677-2852
email: elizabeth.weber@csun.edu
- Developmental language disorders
- Discourse and grammar
- Autism
- Autism and social communication groups
- Diagnosis of language disorders
- Social communication groups
Scott M. Williams
Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
work: (818) 701-6898
email: scott.m.williams@csun.edu
- Family, marital/couple and individual therapy
- Families
- Adolescent males
- Parent/adolescent relationships
- Parenting children with special needs
- Premarital issues
- Aging
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Gender differences in communication
- Co-creator of “The Discovery Tool,” a screening instrument to detect age 0 to 5 development and delays
- Co-author: “My Family: Past, Present and Future”