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	Dawn Flanagan, Ph.D. is a Professor and Director of the Programs in School Psychology at St. John's University. Dr. Flanagan’s areas of specialty include cognitive assessment, tests and measurement, and diagnosis and treatment of specific learning disabilities. Dr. Flanagan is perhaps best known for her development of the CHC Cross-Battery Approach and the development of an operational definition of specific learning disability. She has authored many books including the recent Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment (2nd Edition).
	James B. Hale, Ph.D., ABSNP is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of Clinical Training-School Psychology Program at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Hale is a prolific researcher and author including studies that examine language and psychosocial functions associated with right hemisphere dysfunction, challenge assumptions about standardized cognitive assessment and the validity of global IQ scores for children with disabilities, and explore frontal-subcortical circuit dysfunction in ADHD and medication response. He is the co-author of the School Neuropsychology: A Practitioner's Handbook.
	Lisa A.Hain, Psy.D., NCSP is a Pennsylvania and Nationally certified school psychologist and a Pennsylvania licensed profesional counselor. She is an Assistant Professor of School Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in the neuropsychology emphasis. Current research interests include examination of the heterogeneity of learning disabilities and the comorbidity of cognitive-academic problems and psychopathology in this population. Dr. Hain has co-authored multiple book chapters and journal articles and has presented at the national and local levels.
	Jonelle Ensign, Ph.D. earned her Master’s in school psychology from Abilene Christian University and her Ph.D. in school psychology with a concentration in school neuropsychology from Texas Woman’s University. She was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student, Doctoral Level, from the Texas Association of School Psychologists and is currently completing her post-doctoral fellowship with Fort Worth Independent School District.
	Milton J. Dehn, Ed.D., NCSP, is a nationally recognized speaker on cognitive processing assessment, working memory, and children’s memory impairments. Dr. Dehn is the author of Essentials of Processing Assessment, Working Memory and Academic Learning: Assessment and Intervention, and Long-Term Memory Problems in Children and Adolescents: Assessment, Intervention, and Effective Instruction.
	Barbara Wendling, M.A. is the Education Director for the Woodcock-Munoz Foundation and the Director of the BJ Consulting in Dallas, Texas. She is a frequent presenter on the use of the WJIII Tests of Cognitive Abilities and the Tests of Achievement. She is the co-author of the Essentials of WJ III Tests of Achievement Assessment and the forthcoming Essentials of the WJ III Tests of Cognitive Abilities (Second Edition).
	Jeffrey A. Miller, Ph.D., ABPP is a Professor with the Department of Counseling. Psychology, and Education at Duquesne University. He also the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. Dr. Miller is an active research and scholar. He is currently investigating interventions for working memory deficits in children. He is the co-author of the forthcoming Professional Competencies in School Psychology. Oxford University Press.
	Christine L. Castillo, Ph.D., LSSP is a licensed psychologist in the Neuropsychology Service, within the Department of Psychiatry, at Children's Medical Center Dallas, and is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. She holds the National Certification in School Psychology and is a Licensed Specialist in School Psychology.She is the Editor of the book Children with Complex Medical Issues in Schools.
	Scott Decker, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Decker worked at Riverside Publishing as a neuropsychological test developer. While at Riverside Publishing he worked on numerous test projects including the Woodcock-Johnson Third Edition Tests of Cognitive Abilities and Tests of Achievement, the WJ-III Diagnostic Supplement, Dean-Woodcock Neuropsychological Assessment System, and Stanford-Binet Fifth Edition. Additionally, he was a co-author of the Bender-Gestalt Second Edition.
	Denise Maricle, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Director of the School Psychology Doctoral Program at Texas Woman's University. She is the co-author of the a book chapter called Assessing and Intervening in Children with Executive Function Disorders in the Best Practices in School Neuropsychology: Guidelines for Effective Practice, Assessment, and Evidence-based Intervention.