Dichonics Inc.

Dr. Leslie W. Dalton, Jr.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science (1961) The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, Major in Speech Pathology/Audiology and Art/Architecture
• Master of Science (1965), The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, Major in Communication Disorders.
• Doctorate of Philosophy (1968), Communication Disorders & Experimental Psychology, The Florida State Univ,. Tallahassee, Florida, & the School of Aerospace Medicine, 6571 Aeromedical Research Laboratories, Holloman AFB, NM.

 Professional Experience

• 2008 to present: Professor, Communications Disorders, West Texas A&M Univ.
• 2002 to 2008: School Consultant and Private Research Laboratory.
• 1994 to 2002: Professor, Valdosta State Univ, Dept of Com Dis. (Ret).
• 1990 to 1994: Professional Staff Valdese General Hospital, Valdese, NC.
• 1983 to 1990: Adjunct Graduate School Professor Audiology, U T Paso, Texas.
• 1975 to 1990: Professional Staff, Department of Surgery, Memorial Medical Center, Las Cruces, NM.
• 1968 to 1983: Professor of Communicative Disorders, NMSU (Retired).
• 1967 to 1972: The Jewish Hospital and Medical Center Primate Research Labs, Brooklyn, NY and the School of Aerospace Medicine, Holloman AFB, NM.
• 1961 to 1965: Staff Speech Pathologist/Audiologist/Psychologist, Bluefield Sanitarium Hospital, and West Virginia State Department of Health, Maternal and Child Health Clinics, Charleston, WV.
• 1957 to 1961: Student of Communication Disorders, the University of Virginia.
• 1951 to 1959: United States Air Force, four years active duty.

Certificates and Licenses & Professional Societies

• Professional Member, American Tinnitus Association
• ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competency Speech Pathology and Audiology.
• Texas License Audiology and Speech Language Pathology.
• Life Member, American Speech and Hearing Association
• Fellow American Academy Audiology
• American Auditory Society
• Fellow Academy Doctors Audiology

Past Offices and Appointments

Consultant, Army Surgeon General, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, TX, New Mexico State Hospitals and Training Centers; WV Governor's Committee on Vocational Rehabilitation; Board of Directors, WV Society for Crippled Children; Charter Member, NM Hearing Aid Fitters Licensing Board.

Honors of Merit

• Fellow, New Mexico Speech and Hearing Association
• National Sertoma Club Service to Mankind award, 1978
• Scientific Award for best Poster Session, the Southern Medical Scientific Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 1992

Four US Patents

1. Audiometric Signal and Apparatus for Producing Such Signal. U.S. Patent #3-898-382, 1975.
2. The Virtual Image Analysis (VIA): A Central Auditory Processing Diagnostic Technique. U.S. Patent #4,556,069, 1985
3. Calibration and Security Device for PC Auditory Programs. U.S. Patent #6,654,652, 2003.
4. Neuroaudiological Central Auditory Test Apparatus and Techniques in the Differentiation of the Neural Correlates in PTSD, TBI, Autism, ADHD and Tinnitus. 2009, Pending.

Pulications and Papers:

Dalton, L.W. Tonal Suppression in Normal Humans: An Animal Tinnitus Research Model. American Auditory Society. March, 2010

Dalton, L.W. The use of ABA in RTI and EBP for the SLP. American Speech/hearing Assoc, July, 2009

Dalton, L.W. Dichonic Evoked Potentials in Neurologically-based Auditory Disorders. American Speech/Hearing Assoc, Nov., 2008

Word Confluence Irregulartiy in Speech-based APD Tests. American Speech/hearing Assoc, Nov., 2008

Dalton, L.W., An Orton-based Operant Program for Auditory Language Learning Disorders. SLP-ABA, I. (1), Page 66, 2006

Dalton, L.W., Autism and electrophysiology. State consortium on research, Medical College of GA, Augusta, GA, 1999

Dalton, L.W., Neurophysiological techniques. A 3 hr seminar, Georgia Speech and Hearing Association, Augusta, GA, 1999

Dalton, L.W., & Kolosseus, J.E. Koppitz: emotional or perceptual indicators? Poster Session: Amer. Speech and Hearing Assoc., San Antonio, TX 1998

Dalton, L.W., & Kolosseus, J.E., Multi-channel brain mapping to a unique auditory stimulus. Amer. Aud. Soc., Salt Lake City, UT. 1996

Dalton, L.W., and Preslar, M.J., A microprocessor based automatic screening audiometer for children. Amer. Aud. Soc., Dallas, TX, 1995

Dalton, L.W., & Kolosseus, J.E., BAER latency delay dependency to a non-speech dichotic stimulus. Amer. Aud. Soc., Dallas, TX, 1995

McKenzie, R., and Dalton, L.W., An idiopathic case of sistacircosis as detected by psychophysical methodology, Poster Session, Southern Medical Association Scientific Conference, San Antonio, TX, 1992. NOTE: This was the award winning poster session for the conference.

Dalton, L.W., McKenzie R.A., Kolosseus, J.E. and Barry, B., Screening for central auditory dysfunction. Joint Session of Otolaryngology and Pediatrics, Southern Medical Association Scientific Conference, San Antonio, TX, 1992

Dalton, L.W., & Kolosseus, J.E., Dichonic auditory virtual image ananlysis: a non-linguistic central processing test. International Symposium on Screening Children for Auditory Function. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, June 1991

Dalton, L.W., & Kolosseus, J.E., Cerebral dominance and dichotic listening. Pediatric Audiology Up-date, Newport RI, June 1986.

Dalton, L.W., & Kolosseus, J.E., Virtual image perception as a technique for early identification of learning disabilities. AACLD-CE Conference, Albuquerque, NM, October 1982

Dalton, L.W., Dyslexia: its effect on life. Keynot speaker, Southwest Regional Sertoma Convention, Corpus Christi, TX. 1982

Dalton, L.W., & Kolosseus, J.E., The virtual image analysis (VIA) as a technique for measuring dyslexia. ASHA, Colorado Springs, CO, April 1981

Dalton, L.W., The minimal auditory intensity differential, a follow-up on 609 patients. ASHA, Washington, DC, November 1975

Dalton, L.W., An operant procedure for neonatal hearing testing. ASHA, Chicago, IL. November 1971

Dalton, L.W., Boehm, J.A., and Purdy, R., The minimal auditory intensity differential (MAID) as a test for cochlear-retrocochlear hearing disorders, a preliminary report. ASHA, Chicago, IL, November 1971

Dalton, L.W., and Allen, J.A., A VI schedule for stimulus presentation in evoked response audiometry for monkeys. ASHA, Chicago, IL, November 1969

Dalton, L.W., and Prine, A., An idiopathic case of middle ear pathology as detected by operant conditioning in the rhesus monkeys. ASHA, Denver, CO, November 1968.

Allen, J.N., and Dalton, L.W., Auditory threshold determination in primates. American Association for the Advancement of Science, El Paso, TX, May 1968

Allen, J.N., and Dalton, L.W., Primate Audiology. Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Denver, CO, July 1968

Dalton, L.W., Evoked responses to puretone stimuli in the rhesus monkey. ASHA, Chicago, IL, 1967

Dalton, L.W., Effects of gamma wave emission of the hearing of dogs. Final Research Report, School of Aerospace Medicine, 6570th ARL, San Antonio, TX, March, 1980

Dalton, L.W., The vertiginous respose to sinusoidal rotation in NASA pilots. Portion of a Final Report, NASA Grant, NMSU, June 1978

Dalton, L.W., Allen, J.A., Henton, H.H., and Taylor, J., Auditory functioning in primates. Final Project Report, 6571st ARL, Comparative Psychology Div., USAF, AFSC, Holloman AFB, NM, May 1967

Dalton, L.W., Auditory thresholds in the rheusus (Macaca, Mulatta) and the white-throated capuchin (cebus Capuchinus) monkeys, a comparison of three techniques. Technical Report, 6571st ARL, Comp. Psy. Div. USAF, AFSC, Holloman AFB, NM, ARL-TR-68-14, 1968. Also submitted as a dissertation for the partial fulfillment of the Doctors Degree in Speech Pathology/Audiology and Experiment Psychology, The Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL., 1968

Dalton, L.W., Allen, J.A., Henton, W., and Taylor, H., Auditory thresholds in the rhesus monkey using a closed system helmet. J. Aud. Res., 9,178, 1969

 Dalton, L.W., Allen, J.A., Henton, W., and Taylor, H., Auditory thresholds in the rhesus monkey using a closed system helmet. Abstract: Excerpts Med. (AMST), 1871

Dalton, L.W., Allen, J.A., Henton, W., and Taylor, H., A closed system audio helmet for monkeys, J Exp Anal of Behav., 12, 829-30, 1969

Dalton, L.W., Conditioned suppression as a technique for the establishment of auditory sensitivity in pigeons. J. Aud. Res. 7, 25-29, 1967

Boehm, J.A., and Dalton, L.W., Electronic design of a test device to implement the MAID stimulus. J. Acous. Soc. America, 51, 816-19, 1972

Price, L.L. and Dalton, L.W., Frequency DL in the pigeon as determined by conditioned suppression. J. Aud. Res. 7, 229-39, 1967

Bert, J., Rhodes, J., and Dalton, L.W., Habituation of vertex sharp waves and primate evolution. J. Physiol. Paris, 61, 85-87, 1969

Dalton, L.W., Middle ear disorders in the rhesus monkey. Final Report USAF Contract #F29600-69-c0020, Dept. of the Air Force, HDQ Aerospace Medical Div. (AFSG), Brooks AFB, TX 1971

Dalton, L.W., Operant conditioning as reflected inthe conditioned suppression paradigm; a primate-working model. Scientific Exhibit, ASHA, Chicago, IL, 1967

Dalton, L.W., Statistical approach to detection of the evoked cortical potential in humans using a single point computer. Final Report, U.S. Army Surgeon General, Washington, DC, 1973

Dalton, L.W., Sub harmonics to puretone stimuli in the cebus monkey. Final Report, USAF Contract #F29600-69-C0020 Dept of the Air Force, Aerospace Medical Div., Brooks AFB, TX, 1971. NOTE This research used a cochlear implant for the stimulus input.

Dalton, L.W., Summed evoked cortical responses to puretone stimuli in the rhesus (Macaca Mulatta) monkey. 6571st ARL, Comparative Psychology Div. USAF, AFSG, Holloman AFB, NM, 1967