Key Personnel

Robert J. Doman Jr.

Founder of the National Association for Child Development and Chairman, Board of Directors

Bob Doman is the Director and Chairman of the Board of The NACD Foundation, which he founded in 1979. He is also the President of the National Association for Child Development, created in 1985. The Association operates eighteen chapters throughout the United States and India. Bob and his staff have designed and supervised over fifteen million hours of individual developmental and educational intervention programs for children and adults.

Bob is an innovator in neurological, perceptual, and educational interventions and has created not only hundreds of specific techniques and methodologies, but has developed an entirely new paradigm for education and maximizing human potential.

By the early 70’s, while still in his twenties, Bob had designed and directed a number of state and federal programs and had served in many capacities, including:

  • Director of the Visual Motor Testing and Training Center
  • Clinical Director of United Cerebral Palsy - Delaware County, PA.
  • Educational Director of the Delacato-Doman Autistic Unit
  • Educational Director of the Center for Neurological Rehabilitation
  • Director of the Doman Developmental Academies

And designed neurodevelopmental programs for:

  • The TIKVA organization in Israel
  • The APATHE organization in Spain and Canary Islands

By the time Bob founded NACD in 1979, he had worked side-by-side with some of the greatest innovators in related fields.

Thirty years of hands-on treatment have made the NACD approach to neurological development an enormous success. In recent years NACD has initiated its Simply Smarter Project, an international campaign to increase critical sequential processing skills, helping to unlock the potential of children and adults around the world.

Today Bob is a leading innovator in neurodevelopment and an unwavering champion of the innate potential within every human being. He continues to serve individual clients and their families, as well as to promote the benefits of the neurodevelopmental approach to educators and public leaders in the United States and around the world. In addition, he has been instrumental in the development and creation of The Listening Program and NACD'S TSI – Targeted Sound Intervention.

Lori Riggs
M.A., Speech Pathology

Director of Center for Speech and Sound

Lori Riggs is a Certified Speech/Language Pathologist with over a decade of experience in providing speech therapy, cutting-edge oral motor therapies, and auditory training programs. After graduating from Baylor University in 1990, Lori obtained her Master’s degree from Kent State University in 1992. For the next several years she provided acute care and rehabilitative speech therapy to children and adults in hospitals, outpatient clinics, nursing homes, and home health settings.

After completing Consultant Training with NACD in 1997, Lori returned to her full time Speech Pathology practice until 1998, when NACD hired her to supervise clients using the Samonas Sound Therapy program.

When NACD collaborated with other professionals in 1998 to create The Listening Program, Lori was a member of the development team. She also coordinated the field testing conducted at multiple sites around the nation before The Listening Program was released in September of 1999. Once The Listening Program was released, Lori became the primary supervisor of its use with NACD clients.

After supervising over a thousand clients with The Listening Program, Lori recognized the need for additional auditory programs that address very specific skills. Together with Bob Doman and John McCallum, she helped to create the concept and the products of TSI – Targeted Sound Intervention.

John McCallum

Director of Multimedia

John McCallum is a composer, musician, graphic/web designer, photographer, and videographer and is currently the Director of Multimedia for NACD. He attended the University of Utah where he studied Music, Jazz Composition, and Art. He has worked in Music and Audio Production for 20 years and has been in the Graphic Design field for the last 15 years. In addition, he recently produced a documentary film for a local arts collective.

John began with NACD in 2003 as a design consultant and website developer and has since moved into creating several new and exciting products and services as Director of Multimedia. He helped to create the TSI - Targeted Sound Intervention concept and products with Bob Doman and Lori Riggs, along with composing and performing all of the music for the TSI: Focused Attention program. He also creates all of our websites, videos, audio production, and printed materials.

Ellen Doman

Director of Education

Ellen Doman serves as the current Director of Education for NACD. She is a former Director of Suburban Children's programs for United Cerebral Palsy, Treatment Coordinator for Children's Treatment Centers in North Carolina and Director of the Doman Developmental Academy schools in Pennsylvania. In each of these positions, Ms. Doman directed the treatment of children with a wide range of disabilities including speech and language delays and global developmental delays. She has led workshops across the country on the development of language, processing and learning skills.

 

Vidya Guhan

Speech Pathologist

Vidya GuhanVidya Guhan is a Speech Language Pathologist by profession. Having worked in settings such as a residential rehabilitation center, hospital, and public schools, she became acquainted with NACD through her work with her own daughter who was born with a seizure disorder. She found NACD's philosophy and methodologies to fit well with her own thinking about how to approach remediating speech and language disorders. Beginning as an NACD mom, she soon decided to become trained as a professional in NACD's unique neurodevelopmental approach. She currently is based in Kirkland, Washington, and works as both evaluator and coach for NACD. In addition Vidya was part of the development team for NACD's Simply Smarter Software.

 

Bruce Haslem

Research Director

Bruce HaslemAffiBruce Haslam comes to us from Weber State University, where he is currently a Professor Emeritus of Psychology. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Brigham Young University. While at Weber State he was a Research Advisor to the Department of Nursing, advised about a dozen faculty members on their dissertation research, worked jointly on several research projects with other faculty, advised students on research projects and coauthored with students on papers presented.

He has taught Introductory Psychology, Social Psychology, Statistics, Motivation, Industrial/Organization Psychology, Theories of Personality, Human Relationships and Communication, Attitude Measurement and Change, Tests and Measurements, Psychology of Adjustment.

Memberships and organization officer include American Psychological Association, Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Utah Psychological Association, Western Social Science Association, Vice President of WSSA, Social Psychology Section Chair of WSSA, Psi Chi honor society, Rocky Mountain Region Vice President of Psi Chi, International Council of Psychologists, Utah Representative to ICP, Interamerican Society of Psychologists, International Council of Latin American Studies, Council of Teachers of Undergraduate Psychology, regional officer of CTUP, Western Gerontological Society.


Heather Johnson

Occupational Therapist

Heather JohnsonAffiliated with NACD since 1979 as a child in program, an observer of intense therapy for a family member, as an attendant to continuing education and professional development for staff, and as a mother of an NACD child.

 

 

 

 

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