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Dr. Fey was Associate Editor of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools from 1987-1992, Associate Editor of American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology from 1994-1996, and Editor of American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology from 1996-1998.

Along with his many publications of articles, chapters, and software programs, he has published three books on language intervention: Language Intervention with Young Children (1986), Language Intervention: Preschool Through the Elementary Years (1995) (edited with Jennifer Windsor and Steven F. Warren), and Treatment of Language Disorders in Children (2006) (edited with Rebecca McCauley).

He has won the Editor's Award for the Article of Highest Merit for the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research (1993) and twice for Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools (1992, 2001). He served as the Chair of the Publications Board for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association from 2003-2005.

Dr. Fey's major areas of research interest include early speech and language intervention, the prediction and prevention of early written language problems, and the development of children's narrative abilities.

Dr. Sylvia Onesti Richardson is Distinguished Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Emeritus Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She has degrees in both education and medicine, having received her B.A. from Stanford University, the M.A. in Education of the Exceptional from Teachers College, Columbia University, and the M.D.C.M. from the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University.

She received her training in Pediatrics from the Montreal Children's Hospital and from the Boston Children's Medical Center. In 1984 she was awarded the Litt.D. (Hon) by Emerson College in Boston. She is also an ASHA certified Speech/Language Pathologist and a Montessori primary teacher, certified by the American Montessori Society (AMS) and the Association Montessori International (AMI).

In 1949 she established at Boston Children's Medical Center the first Speech-Language Clinic in any children's hospital in the United States. She was President of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in 1973-74, Chair of the Professional Advisory Board of the Learning Disabilities Assoc.(LDA) for nine years, and President of the International Dyslexia Association (formerly the Orton Dyslexia Society) from 1984-88.

She was a member of the founding Board of Directors of the American Montessori Society in 1964. She was Chair of the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities from 1997-1999, and a member for 30 years. She is past President of the Multidisciplinary Academy of Clinical Education, and past President of the Florida Branch of the IDA.

She has contributed much to the literature of her field (over 100 publications), and her consultant appointments have been many at state, national and international levels. She has received many honors, including the LDA Learning Disability Award, the Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Samuel T. Orton Award from the International Dyslexia Association, the Distinguished Alumni Award from Teachers College, Columbia University, the Rawson Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Dyslexia Association, and the Arrowsmith Award from the New England Network for Learning Disabilities.

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