Lindsey Jordan
Lindsey Jordan is a licensed speech-language pathologist as well as a Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist. She graduated from Misericordia University with a bachelor's degree in Health Science and a master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology. She has been working in the field for six years. She diagnoses and treats various speech, language, social communication, feeding, and swallowing disorders. She has experience in a school setting with children 5-10 years old as well as in Early Intervention with children from birth-3. She is currently specializing in pediatric outpatient speech therapy.

Thomas D. Challman, MD
Dr. Challman is a neurodevelopmental pediatrician and the medical director of the Geisinger Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute. Dr. Challman received his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his medical training at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Following military service as a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force, he completed residency training in pediatrics at the Mayo Clinic and a fellowship in neurodevelopmental disabilities at the Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is board certified in Pediatrics, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, and Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, and has extensive experience in the evaluation and care of individuals with developmental disabilities.

Dr. Barbara Schwartz-Bechet
Dr. Barbara Schwartz-Bechet has worked in higher education for over 25 years and received her doctorate in Applied Behavior Analysis/Emotional Disturbance from Columbia University, NY, NY in 1994. She is a dedicated educator, lifelong learner, and a staunch promotor of diversity, inclusion and equity in her professional and personal life. Innovation, collaboration and team building have been strengths throughout her professional career. She has presented at and has been a requested speaker at local, national and international conferences, universities and school systems, and received four Fulbright scholarship/specialist awards, including a grant to join an international committee for evaluation of the highly regarded program for individuals with Autism, the Shafallah Center, in Doha, Qatar in 2016, an opportunity to teach graduate ABA courses at the University of Latvia in 2018, as a Fulbright Chair to identify mental health curricular needs at the University of Calgary, Canada in 2022 and an opportunity to take part in an alumni event in Egypt to learn about and network with women in STEM fields from the US, Middle East and Africa. She is widely published and has received and supported multiple grants. Dr. Schwartz-Bechet has and continues to work with international partners from the NHL-Stenden University of Applied Science, Netherlands and Oldenburg University, Oldenburg, Germany in the areas of internationalization and globalization practices and understandings of student teachers and related service personnel, Design Thinking & Universal Design for Learning, and mental health practices for pre-service teacher candidates and all pupils in elementary and secondary education. Her current research includes development of mental health initiatives with teacher candidates and students both within and across community & international universities and organizations, emotional wellness of diverse children, the study of disability inclusive education trauma and emergency practices, and increasing higher education student retention of those with emotional/mental health issues. She is currently a reviewer for American Educational Research Association (AERA), Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), and Council for Exceptional Children (CEC).