Enid G. Wolf-Schein, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow, Adjunct Professor, University of Alberta.

After a series of positions as a speech-language pathologist, including the Philadelphia School System, the Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, and the Center for Autistic Children, University of Pennsylvania Dr. Wolf-Schein spent 12 years as a special education administrator in the District of Columbia Public Schools. In 1980 she joined the faculty of the Special Education program at New York University. In 1981 she became a Research Scientist - Psycholinguist at the New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities. From 1989 to 1992 she served as a Chief Researcher for the Alberta Education Response Center and taught in the Severe Disabilities Program at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta where she remains an Adjunct Professor. Her publications include seminal articles on the Fragile X syndrome, deafblindness and the autistic spectrum disorder. She currently headquarters in Florida, where she does writing and consulting in assessment and programming for special populations. She maintains an appointment with the Broward County School Board in Florida as well as school systems and institutions of higher education in various countries.

Her primary area of concern is the development of assessment and curriculum tools for populations with severe communication disorders. This includes a complete program for teaching the Association Method called, SMILE —Structured Methods in Language Education which is published by AG Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. She has presented awareness sessions and seminars on SMILE in various cities in Argentina (Spanish Edition), Canada, Cuba, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Puerto Rico, New Zealand, St. Lucia, and Zimbabwe as well as the United States.


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