Foundation Task Force

Ann Clock Eddins, Ph.D., M.B.A., CCC-A, is Professor and Director of the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Central Florida and is adjunct faculty at Mahidol University Faculty of Medicine in Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. Eddins is a neuroscientist and clinical audiologist with research and clinical interests aimed at understanding the neural bases of auditory perception and neural plasticity with aging, hearing loss, tinnitus, and rehabilitative intervention. She has served on the CAPCSD Board of Directors as VP for Academic Affairs, President-Elect, President and Past President.

Jennifer P. Taylor, AuD, currently serves as the Director of Clinical Education in Audiology at the University of Memphis; Clinical Associate Professor; the HIPAA Privacy Officer for the Memphis Speech and Hearing Center; and Audiologist for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center for Developmental Disabilities LEND Grant. Dr. Taylor has been at the University of Memphis since 2003 when she joined the faculty. She is an active volunteer in the Memphis community and in the profession. Dr. Taylor works with pediatrics and their families. Her primary area is in pediatric diagnostics, difficult to test populations, and auditory processing disorders. She currently teaches in clinical experiences, professional development and billing and practice management.

Dr. Rachel M. Theodore is Associate Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Connecticut, where she directs the UConn Laboratory for Spoken Language Processing. She is also Faculty Affiliate of the Language and Cognition program in the Department of Psychological Sciences, the Cognitive Science Program, and the Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences. She is Director of the Neurobiology of Language graduate training program and highly involved with two current training grants in the UConn language sciences community (NSF NRT, NIH/NIDCD T32). She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Northeastern University and completed post-doctoral training in Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences at Brown University.  Both her B.S. and M.A. are in the field of Speech and Hearing Sciences. She currently serves as Associate Editor for Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America – Express Letters, and is Vice President of Admissions on the Board of Directors for the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders.