Trainers
MaryAlice Batts-Hatfield, Implementation Specialist at Brookes Publishing, helps ASQ users at all experience levels navigate the ASQ Online system efficiently and successfully. Incorporating a thoughtful blend of lecture, demonstration and hands-on learning, she works directly with users to help them best organize and implement their account and create repeatable processes for using ASQ Online. Ms. Batts-Hatfield has a background in education, customer service, business analytics, and computer information systems.
Elaine Chan, M.S., is an independent early childhood consultant who combines 30 years of public school teaching with clinical experience evaluating and diagnosing at-risk children. As the lead coordinator/trainer for AZ Learning Institute’s Children’s Assessment and Staff Development Services, she participated in a network with the Valley of Sun United Way, including several AZ First Things First resource centers, public, private, and charter schools, and community and urban venues implementing live and online screening programs with ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2. She is currently a member of the AZ First Things First Coordinated Screening System and Referral Work Group.
Jantina Clifford, Ph.D., a member of the Ages & Stages International Research team, has been involved in developing and evaluating early childhood assessment measures for more than 20 years. She has participated in the ongoing research and development of ASQ products and other measures, including AEPS and SEAM™. Dr. Clifford also provides training and technical assistance on using ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2 in diverse health, educational, and social service settings across the U.S. and internationally.
Jane Farrell, M.S., has been a contributing member of the ASQ training and development team for 30 years, designing and conducting extensive training on ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2 with multidisciplinary and culturally diverse programs and systems across the U.S. and Canada. She retired after 25 years as a child development specialist who provided direct services to children 0-5 with delays and disabilities and their families. Her roles included developing specialized programming and providing consultation and community-wide training relating to early intervention and early childhood special education. She worked in overseas military communities and in Lane County, Oregon.
Kristin Funk, M.A., LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in private practice. In addition to conducting regular trainings on ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE, she has worked on and coordinated several community-based systems-change grants and research projects. Her projects include Project SEAM: Preventing Behavior Disorders and Improving Social-Emotional Competence in Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities, a five-year research project to conduct psychometric studies for validation of the Social-Emotional Assessment/Evaluation Measure (SEAM).
LaWanda Potter, M.S., has been a member of the ASQ team for the past 30 years. She has been involved with several research studies on ASQ, including questionnaire revisions, data analysis, and documentation. She provides training and technical assistance on ASQ across the United States. Ms. Potter is retired as Co-Director at the University of Oregon’s Early Childhood Coordination and Referral, Evaluation and Services Program (EC CARES), an early intervention/early childhood special education program in Eugene, Oregon.
Gerald Smith is a Career Development Coordinator for early childhood professionals in Buffalo, New York. He has more than 20 years of diverse experience as a preschool teacher, child care center director, quality improvement mentor, professional development trainer, CDA PD specialist, and adjunct professor. For more than a decade, Mr. Smith has trained and supported a wide variety of early childhood organizations in the implementation of ASQ screening programs (both the screening tool and the online platform). He has trained staff in child care centers, school districts, pediatrician offices, home visiting programs, and other settings.
Elizabeth Twombly, M.S., a member of the ASQ team for three decades, takes part in the ongoing research and development for ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2. Ms. Twombly also provides training and technical assistance on the use of these screening tools in diverse health, educational, and social service settings across the U.S. and internationally.
Melissa Vandever is an independent early childhood consultant with more than 20 years of teaching experience in early childhood as an assistant teacher, lead teacher, and director. She has also worked as an early intervention special instructor, partnering with families of children from birth to three years experiencing developmental delays or disabilities, and as a child development specialist managing Make the First Five Count program for Easter Seals, where she promotes the program to three counties in Pennsylvania and the surrounding areas. Melissa regularly uses ASQ Online and has managed the Easter Seals program with more than 2,500 child profiles and 5,000 screenings, setting up over 100 program users and 70+ Family Access pages.
Sue Yockelson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Special Education at Brandman University. She received her degree from the University of Oregon Early Intervention Program and has a background in education for typically and atypically developing children. She provides instruction on the developmental screening of young children using the ASQ screeners.
