EverydayHealth.com, The Los Angeles Times, Real Simple Magazine, Univision, and the Wall Street Journal Radio Network Win
ASHA Members Vivian Sisskin and Janice Trent Win New 'Media Champion' Award
Rockville, MD - August 31, 2011 - The blog EverydayHealth.com, The Los Angeles Times, Real Simple magazine, Univision, and Wall Street Journal Radio are the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's (ASHA) 2011 media award recipients.
In addition, the first ever ASHA Media Outreach Champion Award has been given to Vivian Sisskin, CCC-SLP, and Janice Trent, AuD, CCC-A.
"Media awards are given to those media outlets that featured consumer interest stories in the field of communication disorders," ASHA President Paul R. Rao, CCC-SLP, says. "The winners did a great job by bringing the important work done by our members to the forefront. We're also very excited to recognize outstanding engagement by two of our members via our new Media Outreach Champion Award. Congratulations to one and all."
All of the winners will receive their awards at ASHA's 2011 Annual Convention in San Diego in November.
EverydayHealth.com won for its March 15, 2011, blog post "How Exercise Can Help Your Ears," about a possible link between exercise and healthy hearing.
The Los Angeles Timeswon for its November 29, 2010, article "Sometimes Words Fail," one of the first that was inspired by the movie, The King's Speech. The article highlighted the important role speech-language pathologists play in helping people who stutter.
Real Simple magazine won for its September 2010 full-page feature "How Can I Tell If I'm Playing My MP3 Player Too Loudly?" which highlighted safe listening practices.
The Spanish-language television network, Univision won for its February 2011 interview of an ASHA member speaking about communication development in young children, during its morning show ¡Despierta América!
The Wall Street Journal Radio Network won for its March 2011 interview with ASHA President Paul Rao about the need for better health care coverage of traumatic brain injury rehabilitation services.
Vivian Sisskin, CCC-SLP, is an instructor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland. In the wake of the release of the movie, The King's Speech, a number of national and local media outlets including NBC Nightly News and WTTG Fox 5 interviewed her about stuttering and the impact that the movie has had on how people who stutter are portrayed in the media.
Janice R. Trent, AuD, CCC-A, has practiced audiology in clinical settings for more than 20 years. Currently in private practice in Bowie, Maryland, Dr. Trent has served as a noise-induced hearing loss expert to various broadcast and print media.
About the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 145,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. Audiologists specialize in preventing and assessing hearing and balance disorders as well as providing audiologic treatment including hearing aids. Speech-language pathologists identify, assess, and treat speech and language problems including swallowing disorders. www.asha.org/.
Taken from www.asha.org/About/news/Press-Releases/2011/ASHA-Announces-2011-Media-Award-Winners.htm.
