Dr. Bricker is the former director of the Early Intervention Program at the University of Oregon and a key developer of the ASQ and AEPS(R) systems. She has focused her professional career on the development and study of assessment systems and intervention approaches for young children with disabilities and those at risk for developing disabilities.

Dr. Bricker has been instrumental in the development of graduate-level personnel preparation programs that have produced professionals who are delivering quality services to thousands of young children and their families. She has published extensively in the field of early intervention.

Jane D. Hochman, Ed.D., is a consultant for Policy and Planning for Special Needs Populations, Princeton, NJ. She has been a leader and activist in the field of early intervention for more than 25 years. She has held key policy and planning posititions in the field of early intervention in New Jersey and New York and has lectured in 15 other states and consulted in Great Britain and Singapore as well. Dr. Hochman's earliest academic specialization (bachelor's degree) was in child development. Her master's degree specialization was in educational psychology with a concentration in special education of the hearing impaired. Dr. Hochman earned a doctoral degree in educational leadership and administration.

Gilbert M. Foley, Ed.D., is Associate Professor of the School-Clinical Child Psychology Program at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, NY. He also serves as Senior Clinical Supervisor at New York University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Bellevue Hospital Center, and consults to the Manhattan Center for Early Learning, New York. In addition, he is a faculty member of The Infant-Parent Study Center, Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, New York, and of the DIR Institute, Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders, Bethesda, Maryland.