ASAE presents its Summit Award to only a handful of associations annually and is the highest honor for associations that implement innovative community-based programs.This award recognizes the very best efforts put forth by associations across the country in areas such as public education and information, economic development, business and social innovation, skills training/development and civic and volunteer activities.
ASHA President Noma Anderson and ASHA Executive Director Arlene Pietranton will accept the organization's award on behalf of ASHA's more than 127,000 members at ASAE's 8th Annual Summit Awards dinner, which will be held tonight at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
"We are deeply honored and appreciative of this wonderful recognition by ASAE," ASHA President Noma Anderson says. "It helps to validate that we have indeed reached a "summit" in terms of our campaign and we have done so while improving something that couldn't be more important--the health of our nation's youngest children. This award is a tribute to the professions of audiology and speech-language pathology, all of our members and the work they do every day."
Through the collective advocacy of over 30 national associations led by ASHA, this winning campaign has produced tremendous results. Since it began in the late 1990's, the reported number of newborns screened at birth has increased from 22% in 1999, to roughly 95% today. In addition, the number of states that have laws or statewide voluntary programs for the early detection and intervention of hearing loss has more than quadrupled.
ASHA, located in Rockville, Maryland, is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 127,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the United States and internationally. For more information on speech, language, and hearing disorders, consumers can log on to www.asha.org or call 1-800-638-TALK.
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's (ASHA) 2007 President Noma Anderson, Executive Director Arlene Pietranton, Executive Board member Dennis Burrows along with ASHA audiologists Allan Diefendorf, Judith Gravel, and Anne Marie Tharpe received the prestigious Summit Award in recognition of ASHA's Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Campaign that focuses on the hearing health of the very young at the Summit Awards Dinner of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) in Washington, D.C. last night.
