Elaine F Lieberman

LIEBERMAN ELAINE FRANK, 99, a teacher, developmental speech-language pathologist, daughter of Casper Frank and Ida (Makar), and wife of late Abbott Lieberman, passed away Friday September 23, 2016. Mrs. Lieberman graduated from Lasell Junior College, Pembroke (Brown), and Boston University where she received a Master of Education at the age of 46. She was among the first graduates of Hope High School to return to the school as a student teacher and taught public speaking and coached dramatics. She had been a summer actor at the Lack Shore Theater Players, Westport, Mass., and a member of the Lippitt Players, sponsored by the associate play and players league of America. She was active in theater at Pembroke College, Brown University (Sock and Buskin) in Barker Theater and various Jewish organizations. She provided private speech therapy. Elaine Lieberman was a life member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and received clinical competence certification in speech. The State of Rhode Island, Department of Education certified her as a professional speech language pathologist for life. In 1945, she was an assistant Professor in the English Department of Brown University and taught a required sophomore course in Spoken English. She was an instructor at RI College in the Department of Henry Barnard School as a speech therapist for six years. For twenty four years, from 1962 until her retirement and then five years as a consultant, she provided cross modality intervention for handicapped infants in the Parent Program for Developmental Management at Meeting Street School, an affiliate of Easter Seal Society (now Meeting Street Center). She specialized in feeding problems, language development and teaching other specialists. She left an "impeccable mark on the Agency's history." She was a member of the United Cerebral Palsy Collaborative Infant Project and contributed to its published document, "Program Guide to Infants and Toddlers with Neuromotor and Other Developmental Disabilities." She contributed to the "Cerebral Dysfunction, a Treatment Program for Young People" edited by Eric Denhoff, MD, and Margaret Langdon, MA, Clinical Pediatrics, June 1966, Vol.5, No.6. Mrs. Lieberman compiled a developmental expressive and receptive language profile of children under the age of 36 months. In her retirement in 1985 she was a volunteer in the Neonatal Fellow up Clinic at Women and Infants Hospital. She taught English as a second language to Russian children at Alpern Schecter School and was a reading volunteer at Vartan Gregairian School. She was a life member of the former Jewish Home for the Aged, National Council of Jewish Women and Hadassah. She was board member of the Temple EmanuEl Sisterhood and the Leisure Club. Mrs. Lieberman traveled extensively, attended twenty six Elderhostels and was a bridge player, enjoyed theater, reading and classical music. She was the mother of Constance Bram and her husband Steve, James Lieberman and his wife Sherri, and Michael Lieberman and his wife Ilene; grandmother of Jeffry Bram and fiancée Faina, Neal Bram and his wife Kelly, Nancy Lieberman Barton and her husband Dan, Debra Lieberman, Rachel Lieberman and her husband Matthew VanderHoek, David Lieberman, and Melanie Lieberman; and great-grandmother of Matthew, Zachery and Noah Bram; Sarah and Ashley Barton; Ryan and Asher Bram; and Devon and Ezra Lieberman. Funeral Services will be held Sunday September 25th at 1PM at Sugarman-Sinai Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope St, Providence with burial in Lincoln Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory may be made to Meeting Street School, 1000 Eddy St, Providence, RI 02905. Shiva will be held following services at Wingate Assisted Living, 1 Butler Ave, Providence and at the home of Michael Lieberman, Monday and Tuesday 3-5PM and 7-9PM.