Dawn Cotter-Jenkins Discusses Diversity, Equality, & Inclusion In Telepractice

Dawn Cotter-Jenkins, MA CCC-SLP, MS Healthcare Informatics, is the CIO and president of World Class Speech Services (www.wcspeech.com ). She is also the Clinical Director at Mercy College. Although she has worked across the lifespan from early intervention to adults, her areas of specialty include telepractice training and development, and professional speech and communication. She has expanded her scope of work to utilize her certification in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategies within Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD).

In 2021, Dawn was a facilitator of the NSSLHA Raw Conversation on the book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? She was the keynote speaker for the 2021 NBASLH student mentoring convention event. And she co-presented to the ASHA STEP program on the topic of university admissions. In 2022, she has launched a LinkedIn Live weekly vid-cast called DEI Speech IQ, where she talks to guests about DEI topics in CSD careers and services.   

Dawn has worked in several colleges. She created the Telepractice Practicum and Research Suite, and Introduction to Telepractice for Speech-Language Pathology course at Adelphi University. She self-published STRONG in Telepractice: Technology Project Planner, (available on Amazon) which is designed to facilitate strategic development and expansion of telepractice for culturally responsive sustainability and evidence-based practice.

She is the president-elect of CORSPAN- Corporate Speech Pathology Network. She served on the NY Professional Licensing Board of SLP and Audiology and is currently volunteering on the New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association: Diversity and Inclusionary Practices Ad Hoc committee. Dawn has also been serving as an ASHA mentor for over 10 years. She was on the Media Strategy committee of Council on Academic Programs in CSD.

You can contact her at [email protected] and on social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter).

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