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Abby Newton
Distance: 7.6 MiPO Box 67
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Hudson Valley Triathlon Club
Distance: 4.4 Mi370 Coldbrook Rd
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Moose Crossing
Distance: 7.8 Mi2 Reservoir Rd
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Bio-One New York
Distance: 7.4 Mi47 Hudson Hollow Road
12481 Shokan
Description
Barbara was Co-founder of Creative Learning, Incorporated 1988 - 1995. She is the Co-founder and developer of all Pathways Publishing projects and web sites. As well as being an executive, she has been a computer software designer and technologist, researcher, writer, office manager, executive assistant and librarian. She is also an artist and musician. Accomplishments She published the first natural-voice software for speech therapy and home applications in 1988. She was honored in 1991 to receive the John's Hopkins University Certificate of Achievement Award for improving the quality of life for the disabled through technology. Reader's Digest featured her father's amazing speech recovery and the story of her discoveries in "Prisoner of Silence", by Geeta Dardick, in the June issue of 1991. Since then she has continued to research the brain, alternative therapies and treatments for stroke as well as speech recovery. In 1999, she created the first online talking software for aphasia. In 2008, she co-founded and created speechrecovery.com, a joint project with Bill Connors, SLP-CCC, to bring new approaches, communication techniques, programs and tools to the speech and language and caregiver fields. Michael Schacker Co-Founder and Director of GlobalRegen.com, GlobalCurriculum.com, NewEarthInstitute.com, PlanBeeCentral.com and co-founder of GlobalRegen.net and other projects Michael Schacker is the author of "A Spring Without Bees, how colony collapse disorder has endangered our food supply." by The Lyons Press, 2008 and The Global Curriculum, an online progressive, alternative world high school curriculum, the "Global Regeneration" e-book, as well as many other works. He is the co-creator of "Ingenuity Bank" software projects and The Global Regeneration Network He was CEO of Creative Learning, Incorporated the publisher of the first talking computer program for aphasia recovery. He was CEO of e-Change, Incorporated (now closed due to his stroke.) He was CEO of Ingenuity Software, LLC, (temporarily closed). He authored and developed an online course for the Rodale Institute on "How to transition to Organic Farming", Crisis Management and Code of Conduct, and a Global Regen Vision Mapper to name a few. He is the author of The Global Curriculum, a 30-years plus research and writing project which is the world's first progressive online high school curriculum. He author of "Global Regeneration" an e-book on Global Regeneration which is being co-authored by Barbara Dean Schacker. He was a computer consultant and a science writer. For many years he was a political consultant and writer for the Democratic Party, Independents and Progressives. Michael is a musician and is the composer of a musical about William Blake. His accomplishments are too numerous to mention here. Currently he is retired and lives in The Northeast Center for Special Care. He continues to recover slowly with the help of Barbara Schacker's Sensory Trigger programs, the Center's many innovative therapy programs, LENS neurofeedback therapy with Dr. Stephen Larsen and the help of his family and many friends.