About me
Jacqueline D. Hall-Katter received her master’s degree from Purdue University in 1992. She has worked exclusively with deaf and hard of hearing children since 1997, first at the Indiana School for the Deaf before transitioning full time to the Center in 2016. As the Center full time speech language pathologist, she conducts evaluations and consultations, is the Assessment and Audiology Team Lead at the Center, the lead for the Early Childhood Assessment project, creates technical assistance related to IDEAL, among other tasks. Jackie is bilingual (ASL/English) and has a certification in cultural and linguistic diversity. She has advanced training in diagnostics, bilingual evaluations, deaf with additional needs, and child language development and disorders, including printed language, and became a Board Certified Specialist in Child Language in 2023. She is the mother of 4 grown adults. All 4 children have ADHD and the two middle children are Deaf and graduated from ISD. She is the proud Ama for two grandsons. When she is not working, you might find her walking barefoot and playing in the dirt at her garden oasis.