Dan Philips, MS, CCC, SLP

Director of Technology Resource Center of Marin

Dan Phillips is a Speech-Language Pathologist in Northern California, USA. He is currently the Director of the Technology Resource Center of Marin, a site-based assistive technology center that was created and designed by Dan in 2001 and currently serves the needs of over 4,000 students in both special and general education in Marin County. The center serves students with all disabilities from mild to moderate, from newborn to age 22 and provides assistive technology support in the areas of communication, reading, writing and many other areas of education. The technology center functions as a training center, an open lab for members of the community, and a loan lending library for equipment that addresses communication, academics, independent living, and functional skills. www.trcmarin.org

Dan also is the founder of the Nika Project. This non-profit organization provides teacher training for special education communities all over the world. The Nika project gathers donated mobile devices to repurpose them for use with students; these are designed to be tools that can teach ANYTHING to ANYONE in ANY LANGUAGE. Dan has upcoming projects in Nigeria, Bali, and Malaysia. www.nikaproject.org

Dan has received Honors of the Association from the California Speech and Hearing Association, the highest honor in California for Speech-Language Pathologists, as well as Outstanding Program for the Technology Resource Center. He has received three California Golden Bell teaching awards for his work within his organization for exemplary teaching. He was recently awarded Tech Director of the Year from the Tech Advocate. Last year, he was awarded Schoolmaster of the Year as well as Marin County Teacher of the Year and he was a top 10 finalist for California Teacher of the Year. The Technology Resource Center has also been honoured by Matrix, a parent support organization for special needs students and their families.