Nicole M. Dobson - President
Director, Cue Camp New England
(Wells, Maine) Nicole Dobson is a Speech and Language Pathologist. She earned her B.S. at the University of Maine at Farmington and her M.S. at the University of New Hampshire. She has worked in various educational settings, including public schools, an Auditory-Oral preschool and kindergarten, a Total Communication program integrated into the mainstream, and a Bi-Bi School for the Deaf. She currently works with children exhibiting various speech and language needs, including those who are Deaf and hard-of-hearing. She presents the benefits of Cued Speech to a graduate class annually, and has co-created “Visual-Tactile-Motor Prompts for Speech: The Piper-Dobson Approach” and co-wrote a book describing the system.
(Fort Fairfield, ME) Polly Earl received a BS in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Idaho State University and an MA in Deaf Education from Texas Woman's University. She enjoyed many years working as a Speech/Language Pathologist and Teacher of the Deaf in public schools in Maine, Texas, and Hawaii. Ms. Earl has served as adjunct faculty at Northern Kentucky University, Cincinnati State College, and the University of Maine and has given presentations on the communication development of children with and without hearing loss at schools including the University of Pennsylvania, Tufts University, University of Maine, and the University of Cincinnati. Ms. Earl has presented extensively over the past 30 years at state, national, and international conferences, primarily focusing on the benefits of Cued Speech for the development of language and literacy. She received her Ed D in Special Education from the University of Cincinnati with her dissertation entitled: "Communication Behaviors of a Young Child with Auditory Dys-Synchrony: Learning Cued Dutch and Cued Spanish." Ms. Earl is presently the Program Coordinator for Aroostook Outreach, part of the Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. She consults to school age children who have hearing loss and benefit from mainstream educational placements.
