Katrina (Tina) Eid received both her Ph.D. and M.Ed in Communication Disorders from the University of Virginia. Her Bachelor’s degree was in Speech Pathology and Audiology from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Tina has been serving children in special education programs in the public schools for almost 20 years. She has also worked at Camp Easter Seals summer program for children with speech and language disorders and at a private day school for children with cognitive delays. Tina has taught as an adjunct professor at several universities in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. She has recently started her own private practice. Tina’s areas of clinical and professional expertise and interest are in speech and language development and disorders in young children and in assessment and intervention with bilingual children.

Claire Jacobson, AuD is a professor at James Madison University. Prior to her faculty position at JMU, from 1992 to December 2004, she was Director of Audiology and Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, VA.  Concurrently she held a faculty appointment with Eastern Virginia Medical School and a faculty appointment in the Arizona School of Health Sciences School of Osteopathic Medicine in the Audiology Doctoral Education Program.  Contributions to the field of Audiology both on a State and National Level include: Advisory Board member for Virginia’s Newborn Maternal Child Health Grant for Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention, The American Academy of Audiology Board of Ethics, President and Vice-President of The Tidewater Audiology Society, Virginia Network of Consultants (VNOC), Audiology Today; Bulletin of the American Academy of Audiology Assistant Editor, Tidewater Audiology Association of Virginia Newsletter Editor.  She currently serves on the Diversity Counsel and the Clinical Services Steering Committee at James Madison University.

Kathy Fleming traveled with her family as an Air Force wife before settling in Virginia and completing her B.S. and M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology from Old Dominion University.  She worked as a Speech-Language Pathologist in Hampton City Schools for several years before becoming a Special Education Coordinator.  While mainly serving as Program Coordinator for Speech-Language and Hearing Impairment, she also served as Coordinator for the Program for Early Childhood Special Education, Occupational Therapy, and Physical Therapy at different times.  Kathy has worked at Old Dominion University since 1998 as a Clinical Instructor of Speech-Language Pathology.

Andy White grew-up in North Carolina and received a B.A. in Theater and a M.S. in, what was then, Speech, Language and Auditory Pathology, from East Carolina University.  He has been a transplanted Virginian since 1991 when he began working at the Grafton School in Winchester.  He worked closely with the late Gail S. Mayfield and the Virginia Autism Resource Center.  He has been employed as an SLP at the Southside Virginia Training Center, Richmond Children’s Hospital, and Petersburg City Public Schools.  Since August 2002 when he began work as an SLP with Prince William County Public Schools, he has developed an interest in the political and governmental components that influence the work of all school-based speech-language pathologists in this wonderful and diverse Commonwealth.  He attributes his good work ethic to his father, who is a retired farmer, and his desire to be service-minded to his mother who was a nurse.  He is a new member of SHAV and looks forward to serving as the VP for Governmental Affairs.

Fredia Helbert received her B.S. in Education from King College, M.S. from Florida State University in Speech Pathology and Audiology and her AuD at Arizona School of Health Sciences.  She is an educational audiologist for four counties in southwest Virginia where she has been employed for over 20 years.  She also practices clinical audiology at Norton Community Hospital.  Fredia is an adjunct faculty at Radford University in the department of Communication Disorders.  Currently, she is on the Advisory Board for the Newborn Maternal Child Health Grant for Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention, Trustee for the Communications Disorders Foundation for Virginia, and is a member of the Virginia Network of Consultants.

Ann Marie Kovach is a 2002 graduate of Radford University with a B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders and a 2004 graduate of Vanderbilt University with a M.S. in Hearing and Speech Sciences.  Ms. Kovach works as a Speech-Language Pathologist with the contract services division of Sheltering Arms Physical Rehabilitation Center at Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital in Richmond, VA.  Ms. Kovach serves on the Neuroscience Collaborative Practice Group which steered the JCAHO Primary Stroke Center Certification process at St. Mary’s Hospital in 2005.    Ms. Kovach also has experience with infant feeding and swallowing assessment and intervention.  She is part of an interdisciplinary team of therapists who are regularly consulted to see infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.  She regularly provides in-services to nursing staff in the unit and at other Bon Secours hospitals regarding the role of the SLP in the NICU, developmental care, and how developmental care relates to feeding and swallowing with premature and medically fragile infants. 

Kathy Dickinson graduated from Mary Washington College (now the University of Mary Washington) in 1987 with a B.A. in Communication Disorders, as part of a cooperative program with the University of Virginia and received her M.Ed. in Speech-Language Pathology from UVA in 1989. Kathy also completed her Post-Master’s Certificate for Principalship and Supervision from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Her first position was as a staff clinician and later the chief of Speech-Language Pathology at the Bristol Regional Speech and Hearing Center in Bristol, VA and its satellite center in Lebanon, VA. She served as the Clinical Supervisor of SLP at Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents in New Kent, Virginia, and she was honored while working in Spotsylvania as the Teacher of the Year at Wilderness Elementary School. Kathy has taught numerous courses in Speech-Language Pathology. Her areas of clinical interest are pediatric auditory processing disorders, childhood apraxia of speech, and literacy. Kathy has been an active member of SHAV since 1989, and served on the first Public Information and Relations Committee in the early '90s. 

Shawnna English received her M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology from James Madison University in 1992.  She is currently the SLP Clinical Coordinator at Sheltering Arms Physical Rehabilitation Centers in Richmond, Virginia.  Her career in speech-language pathology includes more than 13 years experience with adults in the acute care, inpatient rehabilitation and outpatient arenas.  Shawnna's major areas of interest are brain injury, cognitive-communication disorders and dysphagia.