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STSN: A Brief History

STSN was established in Fall, 2003 by a small group of interested professionals from around the country. The focus of this core group was to research the elements necessary for a professional organization that would address the needs of speech-to-text service providers, consumers, and administrators.

The official 'launch' of STSN was at the PEPNet Conference in April, 2004, in Pittsburgh, PA. Working with an ever-widening group of colleauges since then, consistent progress has been made toward the establishment of a permanent professional organization for speech-to-text service providers, consumers and admnistrators.

The current STSN Organizational Structure includes a Board of Directors and four Officers.

If you share the vision of STSN, please become a Member today.

Founding Members

Sharon Downs , Lead STSN Facilitator, is the coordinator of the Arkansas SOTAC (State Outreach and Technical Assistance Center) and Specialist in Deafness at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Shannon Aylesworth is a C-Print captionist and trainer. She works at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Keith Bain is the International Manager of the Liberated Learning Initiative, an automatic speech recognition educational project headquartered at the Atlantic Centre of Support for Students with Disabilities at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

James Bell is a C-Print captionist and interpreter at Virginia Polytechnical Institute in Virginia.

Judy Colwell is the Developer & Coordinator of the TypeWell Transcription System.

Cheryl Davis is the director of the Regional Resource Center on Deafness at Western Oregon University.

Pam Francis is the Coordinator of C-Print Development and Training at NTID.

Patricia Graves is an experienced CART provider and recent head of National Court Reporters Association Educational CART task force.

Robert Sidansky is the Administer of Student Services at National Center on Deafness at Cal State University, Northridge.

Cheryl Thomas is an interpreter, TypeWell transcriber, trained C-Print captionist, evaluator and educational consultant working in central Arkansas.

Marcia Kolvitz , Associate Director of PEC (Postsecondary Education Consortium),is the STSN liaison to the directors of the other three regional sites within PEPNet.

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