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; 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.
Lisa Martin
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.
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.
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.
