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1 PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: Howard L. Caston, PhD, CRC, LPC ABDA, ABVE Reed Hartman Room 214 Cincinnati, OH Office: (513) Fax web site: Ph.D. M.Ed. B.S. LICENSE: CERTIFICATION: PRIOR ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS: PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS University of Cincinnati Vocational Rehabilitation Kent State University Rehabilitation Counseling University of Cincinnati Psychology Licensed Professional Counselor Certified Rehabilitation Counselor University of Cincinnati, - Cincinnati, Ohio Wright State University, - Dayton, Ohio Capital University-Columbus, Ohio Diplomate - American Board of Vocational Experts Fellow - American Board of Disability Analysts International Association of Rehabilitation Providers National Rehabilitation Association Job Placement Division National Rehabilitation Counseling Association Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment Association Southwest Ohio Self-Insured Association Ohio Self-Insured Association Ohio Rehabilitation Association Ohio Rehabilitation Counseling Association Southwest Ohio Rehabilitation Association Past President - Southwest Ohio Rehabilitation Association Past Board Member - Ohio Rehabilitation Counseling Association Past Board Member-United Way Allocations Committee Toastmasters International

2 Page 2 of 11 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: 1983 Present Owner: Caston & Associates Cincinnati, Ohio Title: Rehabilitation Counselor Duties: Conduct vocational assessments and job placement assistance for disabled individuals. Also provide labor market research, counseling and consultation on vocational issues for managed care organizations, government agencies such as the Veterans Administration, attorneys, employers, educational institutions and others. Other services include assessments for personal injury, workers' compensation, life care planning, and assessment of lost earnings capacity. Provide case coordination, consultation, and training for other professionals Ohio Valley Goodwill Cincinnati, Ohio Title: Rehabilitation Coordinator Duties: Provided supervision for the vocational evaluation department. Also assisted with job placement, dormitory facility, and program evaluation. Trained new staff, reviewed and audited reports, planed assessment projects, and coordinated evaluation activities with other staff and referral agencies to 1975 Ohio Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation Brecksville, Ohio - VA Hospital Title: Rehabilitation Counselor Counselor Manager Rehabilitation Supervisor Duties: Provided rehabilitation services for disabled veterans with psychiatric disorders. Performed initial assessments, case management of disabled individuals, job placement, and coordination of the individual rehabilitation process. Supervised other rehabilitation counselors. Was promoted to rehabilitation supervisor and subsequently managed other field offices. Developed vocational assessment systems for veterans.

3 Page 3 of Summit Service League Akron, Ohio Title: Rehabilitation Counselor Duties: Provided rehabilitation services for residents of a psychiatric halfway house. Coordinated activities with other agencies, referral sources, physicians, social workers and psychologists. Assisted with job placement. Interviewed prospective residents and developed rehabilitation plans with the residents and their counselors Rollman s Psychiatric Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio Title: Activities Therapist Duties: Assisted therapy groups for patients. Provided recreational activities for patients in a psychiatric hospital United States Air Force Title: Ground Radio Operator Duties: Operated SSB radios for SAC and 1 st Mobil Comm Group. Duty stations included: Barksdale, La, Kessler, Ms, Lackland TX, and Clark, PI. TDY Perth, Au. Assisted in jungle survival school. CONSULTING EXPERIENCE: Vocational rehabilitation consulting has been provided for disabled individuals since Consultation has been provided for organizations such as rehabilitation facilities, managed care organizations government agencies, third party administrators, self insured employers, attorneys, and non profit agencies. Clients have included companies such as Gates McDonald, U. S. Health Works, NovaCare, and the Veteran s Administration. Consultation has been provided concerning vocational assessment, employability, court testimony, vocational counseling and labor market access of disabled individuals.

4 Page 4 of 11 PRESENTATIONS: Training programs and presentations have been conducted for the National Rehabilitation Association, National Rehabilitation Counseling Association, University of Cincinnati, Ohio Rehabilitation Association, Great Oaks Vocational School, Chase Law School, Ohio Workers' Compensation Rehabilitation Division, Cincinnati Bar Association, Ohio Trial Lawyers Association, Indiana Defense Lawyers, and others. Topics have included Vocational Assessment of the Injured Worker, Industrial Rehabilitation, Vocational Evaluation Planning, Labor Market Access, Life Care Planning, Americans with Disabilities Act, and other related topics. CONTINUING EDUCATION: Successful completion of professional training is accomplished each year. Programs attended include but are not limited to: medical information, labor market research, American With Disabilities Act, catastrophic case management, life care planning, transferable skills, medical rehabilitation, rehabilitation engineering, job development, counseling techniques, mental health issues, and others. These programs are sponsored by organizations such as The Ohio Rehabilitation Association, The National Rehabilitation Association, Universities, National Rehabilitation Counseling Association, and others.

5 Page 5 of 11 PUBLICATIONS: Job Seeking Skills Training: A job search guide for individuals with a disability The Role of a Vocational Assessment in Life Care Planning Employability Evaluations Used in the PTD Process Transferability of Skills: Ability of an Injured Worker to Engage In Employment Vocational Assessment and Rehabilitation in Workers' Compensation Vocational Assessment and Rehabilitation Outcomes Caston & Associates; Howard L. Caston, 2003 Life Care Planning for Catastrophic Cases: Training Manual Shelia J. Cottle & Associates, Workers Compensation Journal of Ohio Vol. 13, 1998 Workers' Compensation Journal of Ohio Vol. 9, 1994 Workers' Compensation Journal of Ohio 1990, Vols. 5 & 6, 1990 Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin; Vol. 34, No 1, 1990

6 Page 6 of 11 PRESENTATIONS DATE PROGRAM SPONSOR 3/15/07 Ethics in the Private Sector IARPS-Ohio 3/25/06 Is there junk science in ABVE vocational assessments? 2/26/06 Effectively and lawfully Council on Education in Management handling preexisting injuries, repeat claimants, apportionment, and permanency issues 2/17/06 Vocational assessments: the South West Ohio Self Insured Association good, bad, and ugly 7/17/05 Adding Impact to your American Board of Disability Analysts presentations 1/12/03 Vocational assessment in life Capital University, Columbus, Oh care planning 9/8/00 Disability fraud & ethics NRA, Cleveland, Oh 2/26/99 Ethics VA, Louisville, Ky 10/10/96 Vocational evaluation CHART, Cincinnati, Oh 12/8/95 Life care planning Indiana Defense Lawyers, Indianapolis, In 4/7/94 ADA and rehabilitation NARPPS, Chicago, Il 10/7/93 Disincentives for rehabilitation ORA, Cleveland, Oh 7/16/93 ADA-ergonomics control University of Cincinnati, Department of Environmental Health, Cincinnati, Oh 4/30/93 Deposition and expert SWORA-Cincinnati, Oh testimony in case management 9/17/92 ADA University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Oh 7/23/92 ADA Southern State College, Georgetown, Oh 4/18/91 Non-medical factory and disability evaluation Ohio Trial Lawyers Association, Columbus, Oh 4/10/91 Malpractice concerns in Wright State University, Dayton, Oh rehabilitation counseling 2/8/91 Legal issues in rehabilitation NRCA, Cincinnati, Oh counseling 9/14/90 Expert vocational witness ORA, Columbus, Oh 6/2/90 Vocational issues in divorce litigation Northern Kentucky Bar Association, Park Hills, Ky 6/13/90 Assessment of the injured worker BWC, Cincinnati, Oh

7 Page 7 of 11 CONTINUING EDUCATION DATE PROGRAM SPONSOR HOURS 3/15/07 BWC Update IARPS-Ohio 1/5 3/15/07 Transferability of skills update IARPS-Ohio 1/5 3/15/07 Forensic vocational work IARPS-Ohio 1/5 3/15/07 Ethics in the private sector IARPS-Ohio 1/5 1/26/07 Senate Bill Nr 7-Ohio BWC OSIA 6.5 1/19/07 Workers Compensation Update in Ohio Lorman /10/06 Ethics: don t leave home without them ORA /11/06 Can ethics be an absolute in rehabilitation ORA /11/06 Keynote: Electroboy; memoir of mania ORA /11/06 Multicultural issues in ethics ORA /11/06 Putting ADA to work ORA /12/06 Behavioral interviewing ORA /12/06 Faith and ethics at work ORA /12/06 Kathy Buckley-Don t buck with me ORA /12/06 Ethics in rehabilitation-3 rd party disclosure ORA /13/06 Hidden job market ORA /13/06 Bell Greve: Greg Smith: on a roll ORA 1.0 6/28/06 BWC update OSIA.75 6/28/06 Ohio case law update OSIA 1.5 6/28/06 Effectively stating your case OSIA.5 6/28/06 Helping doctors make better decisions OSIA 1.5 6/28/06 New prescription medication rules OSIA 1.0 6/28/06 Analysis of diagnostic studies OSIA.75 6/28/06 Wound care OSIA.5 6/28/06 Privatization of Workers Compensation OSIA.5 6/28/06 Workers Compensation expert OSIA /30/06 Ethical concerns for the practitioner OSIA 1.0 6/30/06 Administrative and legislative changes OSIA 1.0 6/30/06 Industrial Commissioners OSIA.5 6/30/06 Treatment of rotator cuff injuries by surgery OSIA 1.0 3/15/06 BWC/BVR Partnership Training BWC & BVR 3.0 3/26/06 Video based job analysis ABVE 1.5 3/25/06 Pre & Post injury earning capacity analysis ABVE 1.5 3/25/06 Assessing earnings capacity ABVE 2.0 3/25/06 The roles and responsibilities of the physician & ABVE 1.5 vocational rehabilitation expert 3/24/06 Life care plan development ABVE 2.0

8 Page 8 of 11 CONTINUING EDUCATION 3/24/06 Reading people: the art of how juries are ABVE 2.0 selected 3/24/06 Knowledge enhancement ABVE 2.0 3/15/06 BWC/BVR Partnership Training BWC /21/05 Recovery Based Computer Training for Persons ORA 1.5 with Mental Illness 10/21/05 Breaking the sound barrier-bell Greve Lecture ORA /20/05 Mind your own business-self employment ORA /20/05 Recruitment trends from the human resource ORA 1.5 perspective 10/20/05 Avoiding hiring consideration elimination ORA /20/05 Public Policy briefing and update ORA /20/05 Assistive technology in the workplace ORA /20/05 Ethics, narrow and broad ORA /19/05 Common hand disorders ORA /19/05 Placement ORA /19/05 Neuropsychological assessment of traumatic ORA 1.5 brain injury 10/19/05 Ethics and community rehabilitation programs ORA /18/05 Ethics in marketing, development and ORA 2.0 implementation of transitional work programs 7/16/05 Assessing maximal effort: are tests valid ABDA 1.0 7/16/05 Cultural considerations in chronic pain and ABDA 1.0 disability management 7/16/05 Surviving a new self after brain injury ABDA.75 7/16/05 Hypochondriac: What to do when your patient ABDA.75 enjoys ill health 7/16/05 Out-patient rehabilitation agency ABDA.75 7/16/05 Augmented conversations ABDA.5 7/17/05 Innovations in functional capacity evaluations ABDA 1.0 7/17/05 EMG disability analysis ABDA 1.0

9 Page 9 of 11 CONTINUING EDUCATION DATE PROGRAM SPONSOR HOURS 7/17/05 Courtroom battles, jury wars and expert witness ABDA.5 7/17/05 Methadone as an anti-depressant ABDA.5 7/17/05 Cognitive behavior therapy and the Nitawgi ABDA.5 Farm Experience 7/17/05 Adding impact to your presentations ABDA.5 10/8/04 Bell Greve- J. R. Harding, Ed.D. The road to ORA 2 independence 10/8/04 Illness as an Occupation ORA 1 10/8/04 Independent Living Services-VA programming ORA 1 10/7/04 NRA Legislative Agenda ORA 1 10/7/04 Rehabilitation Services Administration ORA 1 10/7/04 Job Coaching the professional consumer ORA 1 10/7/04 Psychiatric rehabilitation ORA /7/04 Coping with grief ORA 2 10/6/04 Expert Witness ORA 2 10/6/04 Counselor, social worker licensure update ORA 2 10/6/04 Ethical practice and counseling ORA 2 10/6/04 Keynote-Vocational Rehabilitation-past present ORA 1.5 & future 10/5/04 Rehabilitation professionals and ethics ORA 2 4/6/04 Cognitive behavioral interventions in chemical Heisel & 6.0 dependency Assoc 3/21/04 Ethics and issues ABVE 1.5 3/21/04 New technologies of law ABVE 20 3/20/04 Vocational correlates of neuropsychological ABVE 1.5 assessments 3/20/04 Basic Skills for VE, interview interpretation, and ABVE 1.5 administration of tests 3/19/04 Quantifying psychological injury in employment ABVE 2.0 law, medical malpractice, and other cases 3/19/04 Employment law and sexual harassment ABVE 1.0 3/19/04 MVQS Volcano III labor market program ABVE 1 2/5 1 American Board of Vocational Experts

10 Page 10 of 11 3/26/04 Supervising and ethics Cohen & 6.0 Yassenoff 3/11/04 Assistive technology Ohio State University 10/31/03 Bell Greve Lecture ORA /31/03 Psychiatric rehabilitation: ethical perspective ORA /30/03 Successful employment strategies for persons ORA 1.5 with mental illness 10/30/03 Assistive technologies ORA /29/03 Ethical dilemmas ORA /29/03 Keynote-Doug Wead ORA /29/03 Ticket to work & RSC ORA 1.0 2/21/03 HIPAA CCU 2 6 1/30/03 BWC issues OSIA 0.5 1/30/03 HIPAA OSIA 0.5 1/30/03 Wage loss OSIA 0.5 1/30/03 Employment OSIA 0.5 1/30/03 Contested claims OSIA 0.5 1/30/03 Psychiatric injury management OSIA 0.5 1/30/03 IDET procedure OSIA 0.5 1/30/03 Assessments OSIA 0.5 1/30/03 Legal update OSIA 0.5 1/30/03 Subrogation OSIA /18/02 Ethics-professional boundaries ORA 2 10/18/02 Bell Greve ORA 1 10/17/02 Employer based work adjustment ORA 1 10/17/02 Illness as an occupation ORA 1 10/17/02 Diversity awareness ORA /17/02 Transferable skills ORA 1 10/17/02 Private practice ORA /16/02 Ethics-A daily walk ORA 1 10/16/02 COVA-Helping TANF recipients ORA 1 10/16/02 Ticket to success-ssa ORA 2 2 Cross County University

11 Page 11 of 11 CONTINUING EDUCATION DATE PROGRAM SPONSOR HOURS 10/16/02 Adaptive software for learning disabilities ORA /8/02 Ergonomics BWC /8/02 Employment Law BWC 2 10/8/02 Injury management BWC /24/02 Kentucky Workers Compensation Lorman 6 2/28/02 Agency partnership day Great Oaks 4 9/26/01 Bell Greve lecture-don Barlette ORA 3 1 9/25/01 Learning style and task analysis ORA 1.5 9/25/01 The psychology of joy ORA 2 9/25/01 Low tech assistive technology ORA 1 9/25/01 Unified approach to pain management ORA 2 9/25/01 Alternative health resources ORA 1 9/24/01 Ethics-counselor perceptions of dual ORA 1.5 relationships 9/24/01 Ethics-empathic manner ORA 2 9/24/01 Assessing personal readiness for education and ORA 1.5 work 9/4/01 Helping the employer put the working injury OH IARP 4 2 management pieces together 8/24/01 Employment and labor law Lorman 6 3/21/01 Workers compensation in Ohio Lorman 6 2/5/01 Ohio self insurer s: nuts & bolts OSIA 5 5 9/9/00 Rehab in 21st century ecological approach NRA 6 2 9/9/00 Explaining OSHA proposed ergonomic standards NRA 2 9/9/00 Impact of diversity in rehabilitation NRA 2 9/8/00 Keynote Hilarity therapy NRA 1 9/8/00 Detecting symptom magnification NRA 2 9/8/00 Ethics-Disability fraud-ethical role of counselors NRA 2 9/8/00 Ethics-Dual relationships in rehabilitation NRA 1.5 9/7/00 O*NET the improved DOT NRA 2 3 Ohio Rehabilitation Association 4 Ohio division of the International Association of Rehabilitation Providers 5 Ohio Self Insured Association 6 National Rehabilitation Association