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State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
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Board Member Profiles
Click on the name of each board member to view his/her profile below.
Rosario Rodriguez Brusniak
Patricia Elaine Brannon
Richard J. Caldwell
Vickie B. Dionne
Matthew H. Lyon
Kerry Ormson, Ed. D.
Vacant
Sonia Salinas
Minnette Son, M.D.
SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY REPRESENTATIVES
ROSARIO RODRIGUEZ BRUSNIAK
Mrs. Rosario Rodriguez Brusniak, M.A., CCC-SLP, received both her undergraduate
(B.A.) and graduate degrees (M.A.) in Communication Disorders from Our
Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas, and has been practicing
as a speech and language pathologist (SLP) for over 30 years. She briefly
attended the University of Texas at Dallas for post graduate doctoral
studies in Communication Disorders. Mrs. Brusniak currently serves as
lead speech and language pathologist for bilingual SLPs in the Plano
Independent School District (PISD) as well as a school based bilingual
speech and language pathologist at Mendenhall Elementary, with a large
Hispanic bilingual population. In addition to her responsibilities for
her school caseload, Mrs. Brusniak serves as the bilingual speech and
language assessment specialist for elementary Spanish bilingual referrals
and will begin to function as one of two SLPs on the PISD Traumatic
Brain Injury assessment team. Mrs. Brusniak is a home grown Texas, who
was born in Laredo, Texas, and then moved early in her life to San Antonio,
where she completed her university training before moving to work in
Fairfax County Public Schools, just after completing her Clinical Fellowship
Year in San Antonio at the Harry Jersig Speech and Hearing Center. Missing
Texas and her family, she returned to Texas in 1977. She has extensive
experience with school age speech and language impaired students from
PPCD to high school, having worked at all levels within the public schools.
In addition to her school experience, Mrs. Brusniak briefly served as
Clinical Coordinator and Clinical Instructor for Texas Women's University
in Denton, Texas, in the Department of Communication Sciences, where
she taught in the department and supervised graduate students in speech
pathology. Mrs. Brusniak has been active in the Texas Speech Hearing
Language Association (TSHA) since the 1970s and is currently serving
as Vice President for Public Information and Marketing for TSHA. Mrs.
Brusniak also holds Texas teacher certification in Language and Learning
Disabilities, Generic Special Education, Bilingual Education, and English
as a Second Language. Mrs. Brusniak also conducts workshops for SLPs,
as well as ESL and Bilingual teachers dealing with the challenges of
identifying and working with bilingual communicatively handicapped students.
Mrs. Brusniak currently lives in Plano, Texas, and is the proud mother
of three adult children: Stephen, Joseph, and Denise Brusniak.
PATRICIA ELAINE
BRANNON
Patricia Elaine Brannon of
VICKIE
B. DIONNE, Au.D.
Dr. Vickie B. Dionne of
SONYA
SALINAS
Sonya Salinas of
MATTHEW H. LYON
Matthew H. Lyon was appointed to the Board by Governor George W. Bush
on February 25, 2000, for a term to expire August 31, 2005. He is
married to Kerry Hartman Lyon, also an audiologist, and they have
four children. Mr. Lyon received a master's degree in audiology from
New Mexico State University, began dispensing hearing instruments
in 1982, and practicing audiology in 1988. Mr. Lyon is the president
of El Paso Hearing Aid Center, Inc. which owns and operates El Paso
Hearing Aid & Audiology Center, Southwest
Hearing Services, and Las Cruces Hearing Center. He is active in civic
organizations and his church. He also serves on the board of directors
for the Boy Scouts of America Yucca Council.
KERRY ORMSON, ED. D. More information coming soon!
PUBLIC MEMBER REPRESENTATIVES
RICHARD J. CALDWELL
Dick Caldwell was appointed to the Board by Governor Rick Perry on April
8, 2004 for a term to expire August 31, 2009. He earned a Master of Business
Administration from the University of Missouri and a Bachelor of Arts
degree from the University of Kansas. He has been helping entrepreneurial
businesses through his CPA practice in west Houston since 1981. He has
worn hearing aids most of his life and has used the services of both audiologists
and speech language pathologists for many years. He attended the 2003
Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH) national leadership conference,
is active in the Houston SHHH chapter, and has participated with his saintly
bride in television programs discussing assistive listening devices and
telecoils. He is honored to be serving the citizens of Texas as a public
member and believes his background brings a comprehensive user perspective
to the board.
PHYSICIAN PUBLIC MEMBER REPRESENTATIVE
MINNETTE SON, M.D.
Dr. Minnette Son was appointed by Governor Rick Perry on September
1, 2002 for a term to end on August 31, 2007. Dr. Son, a native of
Forth Worth, received a Bachelor of Science in Education from Baylor
University. Following the completion of a Masters in Language Sciences
at the Speech and Hearing Institute under Dr. Tina Bangs, at the University
of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, she practiced Speech Pathology
in a variety of settings for eight years. She enrolled in the Medical
School of the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio
in 1986 where she received her MD in 1990, and completed her general
pediatric residency in 1993. She subsequently continued training in
the area of pediatric critical care medicine. Dr. Son has served on
the faculty at UTHSCSA for twelve years and currently is an Associate
Professor of Pediatrics and serves as Medical Director of the Janey
Briscoe Children’s Center of University Hospital. Certified by
the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical
Care Medicine, Dr. Son is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, national medical
honor society. Her research interests include traumatic brain injury
and child abuse.
Last Updated February 22, 2007
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