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Stephen S. Farmer, Ph.D., founder and developer of the DeLta System, is on the faculty of the Communication Disorders Program in the SPED/CD Department at New Mexico State University. He earned a doctorate in Communication Disorders and Speech Science at the University of Colorado-Boulder with an emphasis in interpersonal and conflict communication in supervision. He has worked as a clinical speech-language pathologist in school and medical settings, has taught general courses in Communication Disorders, and has developed three doctoral level courses and one master’s/bachelor’s level course in professional teaming. Dr. Farmer was a Project Director on the USDOE Personnel Preparation Grant Transdisciplinary Team Training Project: A Training Model for Serving Exceptional Learners, for which he coordinated 2 years of training cross-disciplinary teams. He was the Principle Investigator for the 5-year USDOE Personnel Preparation grant ¡Aprendamos! (Let’s Learn!) for which he developed three teaching-learning styles and strategies courses. He has presented numerous programs pertaining to transdisciplinary teaming, supervision and teaching-learning styles and strategies at local, state, regional, and national conventions. He has published on a variety of aspects of supervision, including the book Supervision in Communication Disorders. Dr. Farmer developed and presented the first distance education course on supervision in communication disorders utilizing two-way interactive television and the Internet. He was the first faculty member in the department of Special Education/Communication Disorders at NMSU to use WebCT to present a distance education course (Language Acquisition). Dr. Farmer was selected to be an ASHA Fellow in 1993, was awarded Honors of the Association by the New Mexico Speech Language Hearing Association in 1994, and was selected CSSPA’s Supervisor of the Year in 1995. He was co-editor and a contributor to Topics in Language Disorders, 21, #1, Assessment and Intervention with Adults with LLD: a Paradigm Shift (2000). His work with the DeLta System (Developing Learners with Dynamic Literacy), in collaboration with Rivers Academy, began in 2000. |