Mickey Rosner is a speech language pathologist who has specialized in teaching children to use communication devices for the past 34 years. She worked at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta for 33 years before leaving to start her own business at Rosner AAC Speech Solutions. Mickey also has worked part time for the Center for Rare Neurological Diseases. She has evaluated, consulted, and treated children from all over the southeast to become successful communicators using AAC. Mickey specializes in working with children who have unique access needs. She carries additional certification by RESNA as an ATP (Assistive Technology Provider). Mickey resides in Atlanta with her husband and 4 children.

Debra Schober-Peterson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Georgia State University. She also serves as Director of Clinical Education and the university's Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic. She has been a speech-language pathologist for more than 35 years and is a Board Certified Specialist in Child Language from the American Speech-Language- Hearing Association.

Dr. Ben Satterfield is a Research Associate with the Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also a part-time Assistant Professor at the College of Education at the University of Georgia, teaching the Master’s Level Course in AAC in the Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education. He currently serves on the Research Committee of the Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) and as an associate editor of the Assistive Technology Outcomes & Benefits Journal. Ben‘s research focuses upon outcomes of AT use and upon Mastery of AT.

Rachel Cagliani is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia in the department of Communication Sciences and Special Education. Before completing her PhD, she was a public school teacher. Dr. Cagliani is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. She also worked for Camp Twin Lakes for 3 years while in college and lived at Camp Twin Lakes for 10 years while her husband directed the camp

Jason has worked with children with special needs for 15+ years. He started as a speech assistant at a private school for children with autism before earning his master’s in speech therapy. Since graduate school, he has been working at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta as an assistive technology specialist in the in-patient and outpatient setting. He deeply enjoys educating families and empowering users of AAC. During his free time, he enjoys hiking, training for triathlons, and spending time with his family and friends.

Kourtney has been working with Rett University for the past 4 years full time as an educational specialist after teaching special education for almost 20 years. She has a bachelor's degree in Varying Exceptionalities and a Masters Degree in Autism and Severe Disabilities. Kourtney’s world and her life views were shaped by her older sister Kristi who lived with Rett Syndrome for 51 years. Kristi helped Kourtney understand that not being able to verbally talk does not mean can’t and that there is so much to say without saying a word. Kourtney believes in those she works with and that communication and literacy are vital for our loved ones with different abilities.

Susan Lee is a special education teacher by profession, but she is a special needs mom by privilege. Susan has taught special education in Shelby County Schools in Alabama for 26 years. During that time she has taught students with severe communication delays, physical disabilities, hearing impairments, autism, psychiatric disorders and trauma, learning disabilities, and visual impairments. Fourteen years ago, Susan’s life changed when she gave birth to Alyssa, her daughter with Rett Syndrome. At that time she became an advocate for Alyssa and other children with significant multiple disabilities, especially those who are nonverbal. Susan and Alyssa had the opportunity to participate in a communication camp in Mississippi for many years and saw the importance of teaching communication skills and AAC in the camp setting, while also exposing graduate speech/language students to AAC in this immersive environment. When the camp in Mississippi closed, it became her mission to find a team willing to start a camp to fill this need. After pitching the idea to people in three different states, this team in Georgia took the idea and it has now come to fruition in Camp SPEAK!

Laura Nichols is an Associate Clinical Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia. Laura has a clinical focus in AAC and has taught classes and provided clinical supervision at UGA for 6 years. She has been a speech pathologist for over 30 years. Prior to UGA, Laura worked in a variety of service delivery settings, including the Georgia Department of Education Project for Assistive Technology, where she also specialized in providing AAC services and consultations.

Lorena Cole is an Assistant Professor/Clinical Supervisor for the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Valdosta State University. She also serves as the university’s Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic’s director. She has been a certified speech pathologist for over 30 years. Prior work experience included working in a variety of medical settings in both Georgia and Florida. Her research interests include adult dysphagia, stuttering, communication disorders in adults with developmental disabilities, and AAC.

Jenny Gordon, Ed.S, CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and licensed in the State of Georgia. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Georgia, Master's degree from South Carolina State, and a Specialist degree from Lincoln Memorial University. She began her employment in South Carolina at Berkley Elementary School in 2001. She has experience across the lifespan, including in school systems (working with early intervention age 3 spanning to self-contain high school age 22), home healthcare, private practice, supervisor for school interns and adjunct clinical supervisor at the University of West Georgia prior to becoming full-time. She assisted in UWG's Rite Care Foundation grant which funds Early Intervention Speech supervisors in Heard Countyand UWG Early Learning Center, reopening the UWG Newnan campus that is currently specializing in the evaluation and treatment of adult and geriatric populations, but open to all ages. She is a member of Carroll County Sertoma Club which specializes in helping students with communication needs. She volunteers and coordinates the Sertoma Baseball camp which provides children with communication needs the opportunity to interact with others through the game of baseball. She serves on UWG advisory board. The board plans with other professionals to assist with providing the most updated research and services to the students and clients. She is passionate about providing quality services to underserved populations across the lifespan.

Jennifer Johnson is a clinical psychologist by training but, for the last 16 years, has focused most of her time on being a parent and advocate for her son, Jack, and others with disabilities. When there were no recreational options for her son and others with disabilities in their community, she started classes in dance, art, fitness, karate, movement, cooking, and more to fill the need. She became a Parks and Recreation commissioner to advocate for accessible recreation and spearheaded the first accessible and inclusive playground in her community. She was the coordinator for their local EPIC (Everyone In our Community Plays) Soccer program, was on the board of the local Special Education PTA, is a board member of Advocates for Accessible Recreation (AFAR), and is a member of the Community Advisory Board from Prentke-Romich (manufacturer of Jack’s AAC device), volunteers at Stanford Medical School to help train new doctors about working with people with disabilities, and, most recently, acquired funding to start a year-round bowling team for people with disabilities. The first time Jack went to an AAC camp, he couldn’t stop smiling and said he was happy to be with “kids like me!”