In Appreciation: Daniel R. Boone

Daniel R. Boone, 1976 ASHA president, died Oct. 27, 2018, at age 90, in Tucson, Arizona.  Boone joined the U.S. Army in 1945, and after several stateside assignments was deployed in 1946 to Korea. After his honorable discharge in 1947, he attended the University of Redlands, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in speech-language pathology in June 1951. From 1951 to 1953, he worked as an SLP in the Long Beach VA Hospital with World War II and Korean War veterans who had aphasia. Boone received both a master’s and PhD from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he was an assistant professor. He also held academic appointments at the University of Kansas Medical Center, University of Denver, and University of Arizona, from which he retired in 1988 as professor emeritus.  For the first 20 years of his career, Boone treated and researched various neurogenic disorders (aphasia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s). With the success of his voice text, “The Voice and Voice Therapy,” now in its ninth edition and available in seven languages, Boone devoted the last 40-plus years of his career to voice disorders and treatment. Boone lectured and presented workshops all over the world, and published more than 100 professional articles and 18 books. An ASHA Fellow and Honors recipient, he served as ASHA president and vice president, and was elected president of the Kansas and Colorado state speech-language hearing associations. Boone recently completed his 18th book,...
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