About Us
Overview
Lash and Associates Publishing/Training Inc. publishes practical, informative, and affordable materials on traumatic brain injury in children, youths, adults and veterans. Our audience includes families, persons with brain injuries, health care professionals, rehabilitation specialists, educators and community staff.
We have chosen authors who are experts in their fields to write on the neurological, psychological, communicative, psychosocial and educational impact of brain injuries among children, youth and adults.
The hallmark of our company is that we provide up to date, accurate and needed information on brain injury and concussion that is based on best practices and current research. But we take out the jargon and present it in user-friendly formats that can be readily understood and applied by clinicians, families and educators.
Services that Lash and Associates can provide for you!
Catalogs for upcoming conferences! Let us send you our newest catalogs for your conference attendees. As a thank you, we can provide the conference with a few free samples from our product line.
Conference Speakers. Lash and Associates Publishing/Training Inc. can provide speakers for your conference. Our authors are experts on the effects of brain injuries and concussions in adults and children. They travel all over the country speaking to educators, families, survivors, and clinicians.
Book Signings!!! We can arrange for our authors who are speaking at your conference to do a book signing.
Conference Booth. Lash and Associates Publishing/Training Inc. exhibits at many conferences. We will provide attendees with a full range of information on brain injury.
Does your conference need advertising? Let us assist you with advertising for your conference on our website. Our team has been very successful in getting the word out about upcoming conferences!
CEU – Online Training will be launched in 2011
Meet the Lash Team
Bob Cluett is the survivor of a childhood brain injury, Bob brings a special perspective with the skills that he developed during his corporate career of over 20 years in communication, marketing, direct mail advertising and sales. As Chief Executive Officer, he now focuses on publishing information about the consequences of brain injury among children, adolescents and young adults. He is the former Chairman of the Board for the Brain Injury Association of North Carolina.
Marilyn Lash, M.S.W., uses her social work experience and research in pediatric rehabilitation to develop sensitive and practical guides for families, educators, and professionals. Marilyn’s specialty is helping families cope with the emotional impact of brain injury and developing strategies for negotiating the complex service system. Now President and Senior Editor of Lash and Associates Publishing/Training Inc., she focuses on developing user friendly publications for families, educators, and clinicians.
Nick Vidal joined the company in November of 2008 as Director of Information Technology. Nick manages the brain injury blog on our website and oversees the Bookstore Program.
Nick had a successful management career on Wall Street working with SIAC, a subsidiary of the New York Stock Exchange, ADP, and the premier brokerage service bureau, and brokerage firms Bear Stearns & Co., Pershing & Co. and US Clearing / Fleet Securities. During this span he succeeded in account management, product development, operations, new business ventures and Information Technology (IT).
Annie Pixley joined the Lash team in May 2010. She is originally from Fairport, NY, a suburb of Rochester situated along the picturesque Erie Canal. After years of dealing with harsh winter weather, she and her late hubby settled in Wilmington, NC in 1997. She recently made the move to Raleigh in July 2011 where she says she will stay until….
She is currently the Director of Marketing and Public Relations. Her extensive background in advertising, radio and public relations for non profits will be put to good use here at Lash & Associates!
Lash & Associates Publishing/Training Inc.
This year of 2011 marks the 15th anniversary of our company. It started as a wish and a dream by a few people who had a vision of founding a publishing company specializing in brain injury that was different than the academic and medical publishers.
A new approach to information
We had all visited families in their homes and seen worn copies of articles on clinical practice and research studies that had been sent by well meaning professionals. Written in scientific and academic language, families were struggling to extract information they could use. When we had telephone calls from educators, we searched for articles with information that was useful, understandable and relevant. They were hard to find. Clinicians and therapists working in community programs were looking for therapeutic tools but didn’t have access to expensive journals and textbooks found in medical libraries. Even more disturbing was the scarcity of information on the effects of brain injury in children and youth. Most of what had been written was on adults with brain injury. This just didn’t make sense to us – what about the kids?
The company started in 1996 under the name of L&A Publishing. From the beginning, our goal was to develop products that were based on the best clinical practices and most recent research findings. But we wanted to do something different. We wanted to take out the jargon and present information in a style that was practical, user-friendly and could be immediately applied by readers. We came up with the format of what we called tip cards. These were pamphlets that summarized best practices and research findings and converted information into “tips” on questions to ask and strategies to use. Our first catalog had 4 tip cards. Who would have guessed that by 2012 we will have 100 tip cards on children, youth and adults?
Then we started writing booklets and manuals with more depth and detail but the same user friendly model. We quickly found a ready market and outgrew our space in our initial location in New Hampshire. Looking for a warmer climate, we moved to Wake Forest, North Carolina in 1998 and also got our new name of Lash & Associates Publishing/Training, Inc. Once we had developed a comprehensive product line on brain injury in children and youths, we expanded in 2005 to address adults with brain injury.
We keep growing!
The company has continued to expand each year. We now offer separate catalogs on children and adults with over 200 products including tip cards, books, manuals, DVDs, and training kits. We’ve come a long way since our first 4 tip cards!
In March 2010 we moved to new offices with a 2500 square foot warehouse. We now have distributors in Canada, China, Japan, Malaysia and England. With our growth, we have new challenges to keep up with the pace. We added a customer service division, redesigned our website and launched a blog.
New printing department and services
This year we have focused on building a full service digital printing and bindery department. We are now capable of producing all tip cards and books in house, full color, 2400 dpi. We added 3 Xerox 7760 color laser printers capable of producing over 8,000 color pages/hour. Baum folding and quality perfect binding equipment was also added. Heck, our new printing department is now bigger than a lot of the printing companies we were using in the past.
Along with this growth comes a great opportunity for our clients. We are now offering personalization on our full product line. Yes, we will put your logo and information on our books and tip cards and do it at very reasonable prices and in full color… our products now become yours!
Let us know what you need
Our business today still operates on the same principles by which we started…
• practical information based on best practices and research
• user-friendly style and formats for multiple audiences
• affordable prices
• and most importantly, free advice for families and survivors.
We are constantly looking for the next best good idea. We count on our customers to give us feedback on our products and to tell us what we need to do next. So let us hear from you.
Bob Cluett – CEO – bcluett@lapublishing.com
Marilyn Lash – President – mlyn@lapublishing.com
Nick Vidal – Director – nick@lapublishing.com
Annie – Director – annie@lapublishing.com
Lash & Associates Publishing/Training Inc.
100 Boardwalk Drive, Suite 150
Youngsville, NC 27596
Tel: 919-556-0300 Fax: 919-556-0900
E-mail: orders@lapublishing.com