We have just learned that our poster was one of 60 from 1253 (4.8%) that received a Meritorious Poster Award at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention to be held in Washington DC next month. Here is the email we received:
Congratulations! Your 2021 ASHA Convention Poster presentation titled, "Culturally Responsive Teamwork: A Framework to Advance Workplace Diversity", has been designated as a Meritorious Poster Submission....The Meritorious Poster Submission recognition is for proposals judged by the Convention Program Committee to show extraordinary, exceptional, and innovative work. Each Topic Committee has the option of recommending one or two top-rated posters for this special distinction. We received 1253 total poster submissions in 2021, and only 60 were selected for meritorious recognition. Your poster is among those posters that received the highest ratings from Topic Committee reviewers across both submission categories of professional education and research. We have attached your Meritorious Poster Certificate to showcase your achievement.
The content of our poster has recently been published:
Hopf, S. C., Crowe, K., Verdon, S., Blake, H. L., & McLeod, S. (2021). Advancing workplace diversity through the Culturally Responsive Teamwork Framework. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_AJSLP-20-00380
It is part of an ASHA Special Collection on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): https://pubs.asha.org/special-collections/dei and will be made freely available during the 2021 ASHA convention.
Members of the Speech-Language-Multilingualism team have won a few conference and editors' awards in our time:
- 2021 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention Meritorious Poster Award (with Suzanne Hopf, Kate Crowe, Sarah Verdon and Helen Blake)
- 2021 Topics in Language Disorders Editor’s Award (with Marie Ireland, Kate Crowe and Kelly Farquharson)
- 2019 American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Editor’s Award for 2018 (with Kate Crowe)
- 2019 Best scientific poster award Speech Pathology Australia and New Zealand Speech and Language Therapists’ Conference (with NSW Health TRGS team)
- 2018 Journal of Speech, Language, and Research: Speech section Editor’s Award for 2017 (with Elise Baker, Yvonne Wren, Sue Roulstone, Kate Crowe, Sarah Masso and Charlotte Howard)
- 2017 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention Meritorious Poster Award "Assessing Vietnamese Children's Intelligibility" (with Ben Phạm and Linda Harrison).
- 2016 Highly commended for Best Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning Resource, Educational Publishing Awards (Australian Publisher’s Association) (with Jane McCormack)
- 2015 Best student paper award Speech Pathology Australia National Conference (with Charlotte Howland and Elise Baker)
- 2015 Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology Editor’s Award for 2014 (with Kate Crowe)
- 2014 Best student paper award Speech Pathology Australia National Conference (with Sarah Verdon)
- 2014 Best poster award Speech Pathology Australia National Conference (with Sarah Masso and Elise Baker)
- 2000 International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association poster prize (co-author)
