Barbara Dean Schacker
I founded Pathways Publishing and Strokefamily.org in 1997. Pathways Publishing was the sponsor for Stroke Family, a web site devoted to stroke and speech recovery. Pathways also developed websites and computer graphics, filed copy rights, set up merchant accounts and provided other services for corporations, small business and other projects. I have co-founded many other projects with my husband, Michael, and have designed and developed all but one of the web sites. As well as a computer software designer and technologist, I have been a publisher, researcher, writer, printer, librarian, and artist for over 30 years.
Accomplishments
I published the first natural-voice software for speech therapy and home applications in 1988. I 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 my father's amazing speech recovery and my story in the June issue of 1991. Since then I have continued to research the brain, alternative therapies and treatments for stroke as well as speech recovery. In 1999, I created the first online talking software for aphasia.
In 2008, I 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.
Due to Michael Schacker's CVA and massive brain trauma or stroke April 2, 2008, most of the projects and web sites that he headed have been shifted over to Pathways Publishing that I am continuing to Head.
Michael Schacker
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 is a musician and composer, and has written and composed a musical, The Song of Blake", based on the life and works of the artist and poet, William Blake.
He was CEO of Creative Learning, Inc. the publisher of the first talking computer program for aphasia recovery. He was CEO of e-Change, Inc. (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 that is the world's first progressive online high school curriculum and life-long learning course for adults. 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 Woodstock, NY. He continues to recover slowly with the help of Barbara Dean Schacker's Sensory Trigger programs, and LENS neurofeedback therapy with Dr. Stephen Larsen and the help of his family and many friends. His unpublished manuscript "21st Century Transformation--the Organic Shift", a book about the shift in consciousness that will make a positive future for the planet possible. It is hoped the book will be published sometime in 2011. Michael has written and created many other works including The Global Curriculum, The Global Regeneration e-book, The Global Regeneration Project site. He is co-founder of The Global Regeneration Network.
Due to Michael Schacker's CVA and massive brain trauma in April 2, 2008. Most of the unpublished writing, projects and web sites that he headed are now maintained by Pathways Publishing.
