Professional Staff
Myrna P. Cronen
Lecturer
Speech-Language Pathologist/Clinical Supervisor
Coordinator of International Teaching Assistant Communication Program
Telephone: 413-545-4011
Email: mcronen@comdis.umass.edu
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant Street, # 218
B.A., Newcomb College of Tulane University, 1966; M.A., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1968; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1989; CCC-SLP; MA certification as a Teacher of Speech and Hearing Handicapped.
Accent modification and enhancement of communicative effectiveness for speakers of English as a foreign language, dysphagia, and neuropathologies of speech and language in adults.
Tomma Henckel
Audiologist/Clinical Supervisor
Telephone: 413-545-4015
Email: thenckel@comdis.umass.edu
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant Street, #107C
B.A., Hampshire College, 1985; M.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1991; Au.D., Arizona School of Health Sciences; CCC-A.
Diagnostic audiological testing, hearing aids and hearing rehabilitation, central auditory processing testing, and hearing conservation.
Diane Forman Judd
Speech-Language Pathologist/Clinical Supervisor
Telephone: 413-577-4203
Email: formanjudd@comdis.umass.edu
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant Street, #220
B.S., Northwestern University, 1977; M.A., Northwestern University, 1978; CCC - SLP; MA certification as a Teacher of Speech and Hearing Handicapped.
Pediatric articulation, phonology and apraxia disorders, language delay and disorders, fluency and aural (re)habilitation.
Patricia A. Mercaitis
Interim Director, Center for Language, Speech and Hearing
Telephone: 413-545-2007
Email: mercaitis@comdis.umass.edu
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant Street, #204
B.A., Boston College, 1971; M.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1979, Ph.D., 1983; CCC-SLP.
The clinical supervision process, clinical skill development, counseling in communication disorders, and fluency disorders.
Lisa R. Rickard
Audiologist/Clinical Supervisor
Telephone: 413-545-3669
Email: lmartin@comdis.umass.edu
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant Street, #107E
B.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1981; M.A., Hahnemann University, 1986, CCC-A.
Diagnostic audiological testing, including auditory and vestibular electrophysiological assessment, hearing aid dispensing, and hearing rehabilitation.
Jane Sackett
Speech-Language Pathologist/Clinical Supervisor
Telephone: 413-577-4203
Email: jsackett@comdis.umass.edu
Campus Address: 358 North Pleasant Street, #220
B.S., New York University, 1994; M.S., Institute of Health Professions at Massachusetts General Hospital, 2001; CCC-SLP.
Acquired cognitive disorders, traumatic brain injury, aphasia, dysphagia, and literacy.
