The Awards Ceremony celebrates the highest achievements and excellence in the professions. Awards presented this evening include the Honors of the Association—ASHA's most prestigious award, which recognizes lifetime achievement—and ASHA Fellows, whose recipients' contributions are the cornerstones of the communication sciences and disorders (CSD) professions. ASHA will present additional awards to honor other members who have also contributed to the professions and to ASHA. The 2020 awardees will also receive a special recognition from 2020 ASHA President Theresa H. Rodgers.
ASHA has 218,000 members and awardees are nominated then voted on by a committee. The list of 2021 awards recipients is here: https://www.asha.org/about/awards/2021-awards-recipients/
I was one of 11 colleagues receiving ASHA Honors in 2021 and was the first ASHA International Affiliate to receive the award since it began in 1944.
The CSU News story about my award is here: https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/unique-international-honour-for-speech-and-language-acquisition-expert
Here is the video that ASHA created to announce my award at the ceremony: https://vimeo.com/644073807
Here is the Awards Ceremony booklet: https://asha-convention.s3.amazonaws.com/2020-and-2021-Convention-Awards-Booklet.pdf
My colleagues Elise Baker, Marie Ireland, and Karla Washington and other colleagues from the US were awarded ASHA Fellows at the ceremony.
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Dr Elise Baker (ASHA Fellow) and Prof Sharynne McLeod (ASHA Honoree)
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Unfortunately Elise and I were unable to travel from Australia for the ceremony, so watched online and celebrated with our families and friends. We were pleased that Lynn Williams (ASHA President) and Rebecca McCauley accepted our awards on our behalf.
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| ASHA President Lynn Williams accepted my award on my behalf (and I was surprised she had a cutout of my head!) |
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| ASHA Honors recipients |
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| Elise Baker's ASHA Fellow Award was accepted by Rebecca McCauley |
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| After the ceremony, Elise and I had an online Zoom celebration with friends and colleagues from Vietnam, Iceland, UK, US and Australia |
Marie Ireland was backstage with the other ASHA awardees.
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| Tommie Robinson (ASHA Honors), Marie Ireland (ASHA Fellow) with cutouts of Karla Washington and myself! |
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| Stephen Camarata (ASHA Honors) with my head! |
Here is the recording of the ASHA Awards ceremony: https://stream.asha.org/2021-convention-awards# Log on ID: 12070449. My award was accepted by the ASHA President, Professor Lynn Williams and occurred between 0:43 – 0:47 minutes and 1:21 – 1:23. Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger’s award was introduced 1:23 ff, then at 1:27ff
It has been a busy few days with all of our ASHA presentations going on (https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2021/11/american-speech-language-hearing.html) as well as responding to all of the lovely emails, tweets, texts and phonecalls.
