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Professional Profile
30 years of experience with record of success in assessment and treatment with children having speech, language, hearing and motor disorders

• Expert skills in teaching, supervising, interviewing, training, staffing, and evaluating performance
• Skilled in recruiting and coordinating internship and practicuum placements

Professional Experience

Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY Sept, 2000-present
Associate Professor, Communication Disorders Department

• Program Director for graduate and undergraduate communication disorders program
• Undergraduate and graduate instructor. Courses include: Normal Language and Speech Development, Language Disorders; Disorders in Articulation and Phonology, Language Disorders in Children, and Clinical Seminar at the graduate level
• Clinical supervisor of graduate students at the Mercy College Speech and Hearing Center
• Master's project mentor for graduate student research projects

Haldane Central Schools, Cold Spring, NY. 1990-2000
District Speech-Language Pathologist

• Assessed, treated, coordinated, and counseled prekindergarten to 6th grade children for a variety of speech-language difficulties including phonological and oral- based articulation disorders, language-learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, sensory integration, and hearing disorders
• Designed and administrated a collaborative in-class communication strategies program for all first and fourth grade students and teachers
• Educational Evaluation Team member
     o Coordinated and developed Instructional Support Team
     o Mentor for Special Education Teacher of Severe Communication
        Disorders Class
     o Supervised practicum students
     o Member of Pre-school Evaluation Team
     o Presenter of numerous staff and parent workshops in language
        development, auditory processing difficulties, communication strategies

Self-employed 1990-2006
Private practitioner in speech pathology

• Perform diagnostic assessment, treatment, and parent training in a variety of speech-language and hearing disorders in children including: language delays and specific language impairments, phonological disorders, stuttering, and oral-motor based articulation disorders.

Poughkeepsie Speech-Language Associates, 1981-1990
Wappinger Falls,NY
Consulting Speech-Language Pathologist for a small private practice consortium.

Suffolk Developmental Center, Melville, NY 1974-1980
Residential treatment center for developmentally disabled children and adults.
Director, Speech and Hearing Department 1978-80
Head Speech Pathologist 1976-78
Speech Pathologist 1975-76

Adjunct

Fordham University, July, 1997
Graduate School of teaching Education at Lincoln Center

• Taught courses in Cultural, ESL, and Disability Factors that Effect the Learning of Language and Literacy

Long Island University, Greenvale, NY 1979-80

• Graduate courses include: Communication and the Developmentally Disabled and Augmentative Communication Systems

Education
Fordham University, New York, NY May, 2000
Ph.D. in Education Area of specialization: Language, Literacy, and Learning

• Dissertation topic: Communication Strategies in a First-Grade Classroom: A Whole Class Curriculum-Based Approach

Long Island University, Greenvale, NY 1974
M.A. in Speech Pathology

Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 1971
B.S.in Education of English

Professional Awards

• Teaching Excellence Award, Mercy College, May 2006
• Role Model for Girls Award, Fordham Marymount, April 2002

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Speech, Language, Hearing Association (ASHA)
• Member, New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NYSSLHA)
• Member, Westchester Speech-Language-Hearing Association (WSLHA)

License and Certification

• ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (#00601344)
• New York State License in Speech-Language Pathology (#001817-1)
• NYS Permanent Teacher of Speech-Hearing Handicapped

Recent Courses, Workshops, Conventions Attended

Presentations

Publications

• Buhler, H.C., Hubschman, K.& Warner C. (2007). Comparability of APP-R and KLPA 2: Preliminary Observations. Comprehensive Issues in Communication Disorders and Sciences (34). 12-17.
• Buhler, H.C., De Thomasis, B., Chute. P., & DeCora, A., (2007). An analysis of phonological process use in young children with cochlear implants. Volta Review, 107(1), 55-74.
• Buhler, H. C. (2005). Teaching communication strategies to first-graders: A collaborative teaching approach. Perspectives on School-Based Issues. American Speech and Hearing Association Special Interest Division 16, 7 (2) March, 17-21.
• Chute, P., & Buhler, H. C. (2004). Therapeutic issues and adolescent cochlear implant recipients. Perspectives on Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood. American Speech and Hearing Association Special Interest Division 9, 14 (2) October, 16-20.
• Buhler, H. C. (2000). Communication strategies in a first-grade classroom: A collaborative teaching curriculum based approach. (UMI microform 9975340) Anne Arbor, MI: Bell and Howell Information and Learning Company.
• Ball, R., Cronin, H., Smith G. (1979). Implementing a signing program for the severely developmentally disabled. Journal of Mental Deficiency (22).

Workshops

• Inclusive Practices for the School SLP: A Nontraditional Approach
  Workshop presented for the Valley Central Speech District. October, 1997.
  
• Communication Strategies in a First-Grade Classroom: A Whole Class Curriculum-Based Approach. Poster session, Fordham University, October 1998.
• IDEA Regulations and The New Standards. Workshop presented to Haldane Central Schools Faculty, March, 1999.
• Communication and the Parent. Workshop presented for American Education Week. Haldane Central Schools, November, 1999.
• How Parents Can Assist in their Child's Articulation and Phonological Development. Workshop presented for American Education Week.
  Haldane Central Schools, November, 1999.
• Role Models for Young Girls.
  Workshop presented at Marymount College, NY October, 2000.

Additional Awards

Mercy College
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