Barbara LeBlanc is a retired speech-language pathologist. She has 33 years experience in Louisiana in the Ascension Parish public school system using Cued Speech 1979 - 2006. Barbara has a master’s degree in speech pathology and an educational specialist degree in administration and supervision of special education and learning disabilities from Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge). She has presented on a variety of communication-disordered and clinical supervision topics at the local, state, national and international levels. Her experiences include public school speech therapy and administration, participation in advisory committees in the Louisiana State Department of Education Level, LA A. G. Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Louisiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association officer and as an adjunct professor at Southern University and Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and the University of New Orleans. She is a professional member of ASHA, LSHA, and A.G. Bell International. Currently, she is a board member for the LA A. G. Bell Association (vice president) and the NCSA board (Co-Director for the Gulf States region). Barbara is also an NCSA certified Cued Speech instructor and a part-time contractor for the Louisiana Department of Education. She has published in the NCSA Cued Speech Journal, the NCSA Cued Speech Resource Book, in the ASHA monthly Auditory Perspectives, and in the A. G. Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the Volta Review Monograph.