Thomas L. Layton, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
ASHA Fellow

Tom has worked more
than 30 years as a professor, clinician, and teacher. He is
responsible as chair and head of the foundation, acting as a primary
knowledge and resource for research, publications, grant solicitation,
training, workshops, and therapists. He is the author and editor of
three textbooks, two tests, and more than 40 articles on children with
communication disorders. He has also presented locally, nationally,
and internationally on more than 150 different topics on communication
and learning in low achieving children.
Tom has been awarded
the "Clinical Achievement Award" by the North Carolina
Speech-Hearing-Language Association, a Fellow of the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and Special Recognition Honor of
the Triangle Down syndrome Network. He has served on many boards and
professional organizations, such as, President of the North Carolina
Speech-Hearing-Language Association, School Board member of School in
the Community Charter School, Co-chair Advisory Board for Parent
Support Network of North Carolina, Advisory Board Member for Parent
Network of Orange, Durham and Chatham Counties, Member of Durham
Public Schools’ Steering Committee for Continuous Improvement
Monitoring, consultant to the Ministry of Education in the Bahamas,
consultant to Medical University of South Carolina and Project
Potential at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
He is currently a member of the North Carolina Department of Public
Instruction Study Team that is assessing eligibility of services for
students with specific learning disabilities. He is also the co-owner
of a private company that serves children with special needs.
Jianping (Grace) Hao, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Hao is an Associate Professor in
Communication Disorders at North Carolina Central University. Her expertise
is in the area of voice, neurogenic disorders, swallowing, genetics, autism,
and multicultural issues and bilingualism. She is coordinating a distance
learning program between North Carolina Central University and the People’s
Republic of China. Dr. Hao has also worked in the public schools, at the VA
Hospital in Durham, and the UNC-Hospital in Chapel Hill. She and Dr. Layton
have been to China several times to present at national conferences.
Julia Brown, M.Ed., CCC-SLP
Julia provides works directly with children in their homes and
three days a week in a charter school. Julia is a graduate of
North Carolina Central University (NCCU) and a native of the Bahamas. She
has also practiced as a speech-language pathologist in the public
schools of the Bahamas. Julia is also a part-time supervisor for
the Department of Communication Disorders of the School of Education
at NCCU.
Anthony Layton
Anthony, who has a B.A. in anthropology, is our office manager.
Anthony handles billing, mailing, filing and
telephone calls coming into and out of our Center. In addition,
Anthony is a professional illustrator who completes the art work for
the pamphlets and correspondence for the company. He is in the
process of illustrating one of Dr. Layton's children stories, with
plans to illustrate future children's stories.
Linda Layton
Linda, who has a B.A. in Education, serves as the educational
coordinator at the Center. Linda will be organizing the parent
meetings and the tutoring services for children with reading and
writing difficulties. Linda has several years of teaching
Kindergarten through fifth grade students and also has taught
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