ADARA

President

Tim Beatty
Sacramento, California
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Timothy Beatty is currently the Staff Services Manager II in the Independent Living and Disability Access Section of the California Department of Rehabilitation. In this role he oversees California’s funding for the 29 Independent Living Centers, the Federally funded Assistive Technology Program and the Disability Access program which provides education and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act to state agencies and departments.

Just before this position he was the Statewide Program Manager for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Services Section in the California Department of Rehabilitation for 15 years. Prior to that he was the Statewide Program Coordinator in the Deaf & Hard of Hearing Services Section for four years and a Rehabilitation Counselor for the Deaf for eight years in the Los Angeles area.

He received his Bachelor's degree in Social Work from the Rochester Institute of Technology and his Masters degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from San Diego State University.

A two-term Treasurer of ADARA before becoming President-Elect, he has been active in leadership and board roles for community agencies, organizations, and colleges and served as an officer on many of them.

President Elect

Barry Critchfield
Jefferson City, Missouri
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Barry Critchfield is the Executive Director of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. He has been in that position for about one year. Prior to that, he served for three years as the Director of the Office of Deaf Services with the Missouri Department of Mental Health. Previous experience includes 17 years with the South Carolina Department of Mental Health, five years with the California School for the Deaf, Fremont and one year at the Louisiana School for the Deaf. He received his doctorate in Educational Psychology from Brigham Young University in 1982. Other educational experiences include a Masters in Education Administration from CSUN (Leadership Training Program) and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from BYU.

Vice President

Doug Dittfurth
Austin, Texas
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Doug Dittfurth has worked in the services with persons who are deaf/hard of hearing arena for over 30 years in several capacities: Teacher, Rehabilitation Counselor, Interpreter, Interpreter Trainer, Mental Health/Substance Abuse Counselor, Rehabilitation Facility Administration and Consultant. His undergraduate studies included Habilitation of the Deaf and Audiology at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. He has Master of Education degrees in Counseling and Psychometrics from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls. His post-graduate studies have included Chemical Dependency Counseling at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul and community adult programming at Gallaudet University in Washington, District of Columbia. Mr. Dittfurth holds Texas BEI Level III and CIC interpreter certifications.
He currently works with Texas’ Health and Human Services Commission’s, Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services, Division of Rehabilitation Services/Office for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services in Austin as their Outreach Development Specialist. He provides oversight to the DHHS Specialist Program; a network of 26 contracted service providers who work to improve access to services across the state as well as manages several special projects with other state agencies to improve services to the targeted population. He also serves as an officer on the Board of Directors for the American Foundation for the Elderly Deaf which has its main project, LaVista Retirement Center for the Deaf, in San Marcos, Texas.

Secretary

Charlene Crump
Montgomery, Alabama
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Charlene Crump, B.S., CI/CT, ASLTA-Q, QMHI, is the statewide Mental Health Interpreter Coordinator for the Office of Deaf Services, Alabama Department of Mental Health. In this capacity, Ms. Crump has been responsible for developing the Mental Health Interpreter Training initiative and developing certification standards that have been adopt been adopted by DMH and Alabama State Code. Charlene is a frequent presenter and consultant at various national and state venues, presenting on mental health interpreting. She created and operates several listservs and moderates a monthly online discussion forum related to current research in mental health and deafness/interpreting through Jacksonville State University’s distance program. She currently serves as President of the Alabama Chapter of the American Sign Language Teacher’s Association (ASLTA). Charlene is a contributor to the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) Standard Practice Paper focusing on Mental Health Interpreting and has served on expert focus groups including work with Northeastern University, Boston in establishment of a graduate level certificate program for mental health interpreting.

Treasurer

Steve Larew
St. Augustine, Florida
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Steve Larew is currently the Director of the Gallaudet University Regional Center at Flagler College. He graduated from Gallaudet University in 1976 with a B.S. in Business Administration –Accounting and received his M.A. degree from Northern Illinois University in Deaf Rehabilitation Counseling. His work experience includes serving as program counselor for the Northern Illinois University Program for Hearing Impaired, Executive Director for Nebraska Commission for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Statewide coordinator for the Deaf for the Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services and Research Associate with Northern Illinois University Research and Training Center on Traditionally Underserved Persons Who are Deaf.

Immediate Past President

Steve Hamerdinger
Montgomery, Alabama
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Steve Hamerdinger has been the Director of the Office of Deaf Services at the Alabama Department of Mental Health since January, 2003. Before this he was the Director of the Office of Deaf and Linguistic Support Services at the Missouri Department of Mental Health, a position he held for more than nine years. He has an M.A. in Counseling from Gallaudet University. He owns and operates a mental health consulting firm that provides consultation and training on mental health and deafness nationally. He has been an adjunct faculty member of several college programs and a visiting lecturer at the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas. He was the first Reba Hill Memorial Lecturer on Pediatrics at theBaylor University Medical School.

At-Large Board Member

Suzanne Dennis
Olathe, Kansas
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At-Large Board Member

Joseph Murray
Orlando, Florida
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At-Large Board Member

Dan Boutin
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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At-Large Board Member

Michelle Niehaus
Frankfurt, Kentucky
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Office Manager

Sherri Fleishell
Myersville, Maryland
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JADARA Journal Editor

Gabe Lomas
Danbury, Connecticut
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JADARA Journal Editor

David Feldman
Miami Shores, Florida
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ADARA Webadmin

Barry Blood
Tampa, Florida
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ADARA Update Editor

Steve Hamerdinger
Montgomery, Alabama
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Legal Consultant

Howard Rosenblum
Chicago, Illinois
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CRCC Liaison

Shawn Saladin
Edinburgh, Texas
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DHHCAN Representative

Al Sonnenstrahl
Washington, DC
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