ALL™ Author Team

Dr. Jaumeiko Coleman is the owner and founder of The Learning T.I.P., a pediatric speech-language pathology practice. She enjoys collaborating interprofessionally to promote strong literacy skill development to facilitate robust social, academic, avocational, and vocational outcomes for those she serves. Dr. Coleman’s 25+ year career focus on spoken language and literacy acquisition informed her work in public and private schools and universities, a not-for-profit professional association, and an edTech company. She is a board member of the Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDAA), an LDAA representative on the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities, and a Fellow in the SLP Academy of the National Academies of Practice.

R. Jane Lieberman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is Professor Emerita at the University of Central Florida and Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. During her career, she worked as a speech-language pathologist in public schools, in the Peace Corps in Brasilia, Brazil, in an Easter Seal’s Rehabilitation Center, and as a student trainee at a Veteran’s Administration Hospital. From 1978 to 2000, she was on the faculty at Appalachian State University where she taught courses in language development and disorders and supervised students in the University Comprehensive Clinic. At Appalachian she also served as Director of the Communication Disorders Program, Chair of the Department of Language, Reading and Exceptionalities (LRE), and Director of the Comprehensive Clinic. As LRE Department Chair, she focused on establishing linkages among the three disciplines in the department, Communication Disorders, Reading, and Special Education. In 2000, she took a position as Chair of the Department of Communication Disorders at the University of Central Florida where she established coursework and clinical programming in reading disabilities as well as a doctoral program in language and literacy. Dr. Lieberman has presented widely at state and national conferences and has provided professional development to hundreds of graduate students through her successful grant writing activity. She is the co-author of the Assessment of Literacy and Language. In 2015, she retired from the University of Central Florida.

Linda J. Lombardino, Ph.D., is an emeritus professor at the University of Florida and a Board-Certified Child language Specialist (ABCLLD). She has taught graduate courses for over 45 years in the areas of child language development and disorders and reading disabilities with a specialization in identifying and treating dyslexia. Between 1978 and 2009, she was on the faculty in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Florida (UF) where she established a reading disabilities clinic. She has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences, published many papers on reading disabilities, and has provided professional development to hundreds of graduate students in speech-language pathology at UF and several universities throughout the country.

In 2010, she moved to UF’s School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Education where she taught and supervised research in area of reading disabilities. Along with teaching in the department’s dyslexia certificate program, she authored Assessing and Differentiating Reading & Writing Disorders: A multidimensional Model and is a co-author of Assessment of Literacy and Language.