American Academy of Private Practice in Speech Pathology and Audiology

Deborah Ross-Swain, Ed.D. is the founder, owner and director of the Swain Center, a clinic for speech, language and learning disorders and research, The Listening Center in Walnut Creek Orange County and Sacramento. She is the former Chief of Speech-Language Pathology at the University of California, Davis Medical Center and held a clinical staff faculty appointment to the School of Medicine. She is the Past President of California Speech Pathologists and Audiologists in Private Practice (CALSPAPP) and was recently appointed to CSHA’s Task Force for developing evaluation and treatment guidelines for Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) and CSHA’s Encroachment Task Force. Dr. Swain is a California delegate to the Legislative Council for the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) the governing body for speech-language pathologists and audiologists and is on the Board of Directors of the National Coalition of Auditory Processing Disorders (NCAPD). Dr. Swain serves on the Best Practices for Autism Treatment council for North Bay Regional Center and is a frequent guest speaker for Talk About Curing Autism (TACA), Autism Education Network (AEN) and Families for Early Autism Treatment (FEAT) and is involved in autism treatment research studies with the M.I.N.D. Institute at the University of California, Davis Medical Center Dr. Swain has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences on treatment of autism including Autism One and works collaboratively with Defeat Autism Now (DAN) physicians. She is the author of six standardized test batteries: The Ross Information Processing Assessment-2; The Ross Information Processing-Geriatric; The Ross Information Processing Assessment-Primary; The Auditory Processing Abilities Test; The Bedside Evaluation and Screening Test; The Swallowing Ability and Function Test and The Listening Inventory. She is the author of six manuals and books: Aphaisa Rehabilitation: An Auditory and Verbal Treatment Hierarchy; Aphasia Rehabilitation: A Reading and Writing Treatment Hierarchy; The Cognitive Linguistic Improvement Program; The Voice Advantage; The Geriatric Treatment Manual; and The Geriatric Resource Manual. She is married and the mother of four children.