Elizabeth B. Cole, Ed.D.
Elizabeth B. Cole, Ed.D., Director, Soundbridge, Capitol Region Education Council, 123 Progress Drive, Wethersfield, Connecticut 06109.
Dr. Elizabeth Cole is the Director of Soundbridge, a statewide public school program in Connecticut, which provides a wide variety of audiological and instructional services to approximately 700 children (birth through secondary school) who are learning spoken language through listening. Prior to coming to Connecticut in 1996, Dr. Cole was a professor at McGill University in Montreal for 16 years, where she taught acoustic phonetics, language, speech, and aural habilitation courses to students in the Auditory-Oral Re-Habilitation and Education of Hearing-Impaired Children (AORE) program, as well as to audiology and speech-language pathology students. Dr. Cole has co-authored a book with Carol Flexer entitled Children with Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking, which is a standard text for professional development of teachers who are seeking certification as Listening and Spoken Language Specialists.