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- [S104] Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 109.
- [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 7 Dec 2008.
Newport native receives national award
KNOXVILLE-Lynne Freshour Harmon, president of Parent-Child Services Group, Inc., was awarded the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation's Louis M. DiCarlo Award for Recent Clinical Achievement during the recent 2008 convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in Chicago.
Harmon, a native of Newport and graduate of Cocke County High School, is the daughter of Jamie Freshour, Newport, and the late Everett Freshour, and the granddaughter of the late Guy and Ruth Freshour.
The honor recognizes an individual's significant accomplishments in the advancement of clinical service in speech-language pathology and/or audiology. The recipient is chosen from individuals nominated by state speech-language-hearing associations through the country.
Harmon was honored for her leadership in facilitating legislation within a coalition to assure insurance coverage for communication intervention for Tennessee's children with autism.
Once the Autism Equity Act of Tennessee became law, she developed a reference manual presented to insurance agency medical directors throughout the state to assist with appropriate implementation.
She also developed parent education materials on the law and disseminated national guidelines for evidence-based clinical service delivery by speech-language pathologists to raise awareness of preferred practice patterns in service to children with autism.
The ASHA Foundation recognized Harmon for her "untiring advocacy, which has increased the frequency and intensity of services by communication professionals for children with autism throughout the state," said a spokesman for the group.
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