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Shirley Sparks, associate professor emerita, Western Michigan University (WMU), after six years as adjunct associate professor at Santa Clara University, early childhood special education, Santa Clara, CA. Sparks is an ASHA Fellow and a member of the original Board of Specialty Recognition in Child Language. During her 15 years at WMU she published and was a frequent speaker on the subjects of genetics, fetal alcohol syndrome, and early intervention. In the mid-80s she was chosen by ASHA to be one of four speakers to give a series of conferences around the country on the then new.