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Lyle Lloyd
Professor; Special Education & AAC
B.S., 1956, Eastern Illinois University
M.A., 1959, University of Illinois
Ph.D., 1965, University of Iowa
Office: Beering Hall of Liberal Arts and EducationM.A., 1959, University of Illinois
Ph.D., 1965, University of Iowa
Email: lloydaac@purdue.edu
Courses: SLHS 54000
Professor Lloyd is a speech pathologist and an audiologist. His primary clinical research andteaching focus is the area of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for individuals with severe communication problems related to physical and/or cognitive disabilities. Lloyd has service, teaching, administrative, and research experience in the public schools, state(MR/DD) facilities, universities, community clinics, and the federal government. In the early 1960s, he developed improved behavioral procedures for assessing the auditory abilities of severely-profoundly retarded and other difficult-to-test individuals. During 1984, Lloyd was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in AAC at the University of London. Lloyd is a Fellow of both the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and the American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR). He has held numerous elected and appointed offices in several professional organizations including serving as CEC Division for Children with Communication Disorders President, founder and the first chair of the AAMR Communication Disorders Division, and 1978 ASHA Program Committee Chair. He was a founder of the International Society of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC), serving as the first Vice President for Publications and then as an Editor of the Journal of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (1986-93). He is the only person to receive the biennial ISAAC Presidents Award twice (1988 and 1998. He also received the ISAAC Distinguished Service Award (1994) making him the only person to receive both of ISAAC’s highest awards for his research and professional leadership in AAC.