Our Board
Our board of directors provides governance and directional guidance of every aspect of our organization.
Dr. Philip Prinz
Director
Dr. Philip M. Prinz is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Special Education at San Francisco State University (SFSU). He also served on the faculty of the Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education administered by SFSU and the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, Dr. Prinz was on the faculty in the Communication Disorders Program in the Department of Special Education at The Pennsylvania State University and the Department of Communication Disorders at the University of Colorado.
He completed a B.A. in Comparative Literature at UCLA, an M.S. in Journalism at Northwestern University, an M.S. in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences at Boston University, and a doctorate in Applied Psycholinguistics and Special Education at Boston University. Dr. Prinz holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) in Speech-Language Pathology from the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) and a Speech & Language Pathologist License from the State of California.
Dr. Prinz is a specialist in language differences and disorders across spoken, written, and signed modalities; American Sign Language (ASL) acquisition and assessment; the relationship between ASL proficiency and English literacy development; and the differentiation between typical and atypical language abilities of English language learning children (second language learners).
Dr. Prinz was a recipient of research grants from the U.S. Department of Education (Office of Special Education Programs), Research Fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Fulbright Commission. He received an Ed Roberts Senior Fellowship from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) and the University of California, Berkeley.
Currently, Dr. Prinz resides in Santa Barbara. He volunteers in the Adult Literacy Program at the Santa Barbara Public Library where he provides literacy tutoring for a learning disabled adult. Additionally, he teaches English online to an adult English language learner from Santiago, Chile.