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ASHA's highest achievement, the Honors of the Association, have been granted to six outstanding individuals for 1998. The awards were conferred in November at ASHA's Annual Convention in San Antonio.
During his 45-year career, Arnold E. Aronson has contributed significantly to the areas of speech-language pathology, neurology, and laryngology as clinician, scholar, researcher, teacher, and mentor to a generation of students who have themselves gone on to illustrious careers. He has helped in our understanding of the differential diagnosis of voice and motor speech disorders and the clinical management of adults with communication disorders. He is a scientist-clinician of the highest order who, according to Leonard L. LaPointe (himself a 1998 Honoree) of Arizona State University, "has articulated a philosophy and molded his life and his teaching around the preeminence of our clinical ventures. He recognizes well that our professions at their heart are clinical disciplines that serve the welfare of people with barriers to human communication."
Aronson (BS, MS, and PhD, all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1951, 1952, and 1957, respectively) taught from 1957 to 1962 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and then moved to the Mayo Clinic as consultant in the Section of Speech Pathology in the Department of Neurology and as professor of Speech Pathology at the Mayo Medical School. He was head of the Section of Speech Pathology at the Mayo Clinic from 1979-1992. In 1996, Aronson was appointed senior consultant in Speech Pathology, Department of Neurology, at the Mayo Clinic.
Aronson has contributed widely to journals and has presented numerous papers at national and international meetings. He is the author of the major text, Clinical Voice Disorders, as well as an author (with Darley and Brown) of Motor Speech Disorders, a standard text in speech-language pathology. He has written book chapters, published instructional audio- and videotapes, and has served as editorial consultant for numerous journals, and as associate editor of the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research.
Aronson, an ASHA Fellow, is the recipient of many honors, including (with his colleague, Frederic L. Darley) the 1969 Editor's Award from the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research for the article of highest merit ("Differential diagnostic patterns of dysarthria"), the Award for Outstanding Achievement for his significant contributions to laryngology from the American Laryngological Association (1992), and the Lifetime Clinical Achievement Award from the Academy of Neurological Communication Disorders and Sciences in recognition of his outstanding contributions to patient care and the clinical literature (1994). He was also elected to honorary membership in the American Neurological Association (1992).
If to be a master, says Robert T. Wertz of the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Nashville, is "to make significant advances in one's art and then to instruct generations of apprentices in the dignity and skills of their craft, certainly, Dr. Arnold E. Aronson is masterful."
The early involvement of Robert W. Blakeley and his continued participation in interdisciplinary practices in the care of patients with orofacial abnormalities place him in the forefront of the interdependence of members of the affiliated health sciences. His wide international teaching and consulting experience have also made him unofficial goodwill ambassador for the professions.
Blakeley's contributions in these areas have been impressive. The temporary speech appliance (obturator/lift) was his conception. It has provided options for early intervention to assist the speech development of children with cleft palate and palatal dysfunction. Blakeley also published the first Screening Test (in 1980) for developmental apraxia, and he holds a U. S. Patent on an oral appliance that facilitates the teaching of the phoneme R. His clinical interests and teaching competencies embrace stuttering, voice, cranio-facial disorders, language-learning problems, mental retardation, and developmental apraxia. His professional interests include ethics and standards, licensure, hearing aids, certification, governmental regulations, and more.
Blakeley (BA, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1951; MS, University of Oregon, 1952; PhD, University of Michigan, 1958), an ASHA Fellow, is currently professor emeritus of Oregon Health Sciences University, and since 1983 has been involved in overseas services in speech-language pathology management. He has served in Costa Rica, for Partners of the Americas; in China as U. S. Team Coordinator and Project Hope Fellow; in Ekaterinburg, Russia, where he traveled with members of the American Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery, sponsored by the Russian Ministry of Health and the Bonum Institute.
In his 43-year career, Blakeley has published numerous articles and received many awards and honors, including the first DiCarlo Award for Clinical Achievement and the Honors of the Oregon Speech and Hearing Association. He has served ASHA as a member of various committees and boards, including the Task Force on Classification Systems, the Committee on Honors, the Committee on Organizational Structure, the Professional Services Board, the Ethical Practices Board, and as site visitor and editorial consultant.
Blakeley's clinical wisdom and judgment, according to Stephen C. McFarlane of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, are "impeccable." Blakeley delights in stepping into the clinical arena and sharing his mastery, adds McFarlane: "The insights and humor of Bob's clinical experience have been a rich resource. He is a giant upon whose shoulders we have stood."
The career of Eric D. Blom has been dedicated to the development, evaluation, and refinement of clinical techniques and prostheses to facilitate the rehabilitation of patients with laryngectomies. Because of his work over the past 20 years (with surgeon Mark Singer) in the development and refinement of the tracheoesophageal puncture technique and prosthesis, thousands of people have been able to speak. His work on behalf of people with laryngectomies, says Jeri A. Logemann of Northwestern University, has "revolutionized the way we take care of these patients."
Blom's original concept was developed as a result of his doctoral research in which he studied earlier surgical voice restoration methods. This work led him to recognize the need to solve the problem of leakage from the esophagus into the trachea. Blom then went on, working with Singer, to develop the "duckbill" prosthesis by slitting the end of a small catheter tube with a razor blade. The simple puncture became an outpatient surgery and provided for a tight seal around the prosthesis. The one-way valve opened only when air was directed through it to the esophagus and prevented leakage to the trachea. He has since improved this design many times over the years.
The work of Blom (BS, Miami University of Ohio, 1966; MA, Ball State University, 1967; PhD, University of Maryland, 1972) has profoundly altered the rehabilitation of patients with laryngectomies worldwide and its impact has been widely recognized. Blom has published 51 papers on voice restoration and lectured in 18 countries. He is a founding member-and the only non-European member-of the European Group for Study of Functional Surgery After Laryngectomy, a European Union-funded research group of surgeons and speech-language pathologists. Blom, who is currently with Head and Neck Associates, Inc., of Indianapolis, is also Allied Health Practitioner at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, and clinical assistant professor in Otolaryngology, and adjunct professor in Speech and Hearing Science at Indiana University.
Blom is an ASHA Fellow and has received ASHA's outstanding Clinical Achievement Award. He is a recipient as well of the Honors of the Indiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and is the only non-physician to be inducted into the Royal Society of Medicine, Section of Laryngology and Rhinology. He has also served ASHA on the Committee on Extended Practices, and has been active in the American Cancer Society, the Indiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association, in self-help groups, and as an advocate on behalf of patients and families. Blom is an inspired teacher who is committed to sharing his knowledge and preparing the next generation of clinicians. Says Moya L. Andrews of Indiana University of Blom: "His work is a shining witness to our shared goal of finding ways that all may speak."
Theodore J. Glattke, says Audrey L. Holland of the University of Arizona, "has always had one foot in the laboratory and the other in clinical applications of laboratory science." He was a member, for example, of the first team to receive funding from the National Institutes of Health to study cochlear implants in humans; his text, Short Latency Auditory Evoked Potentials, was the major resource for a generation of audiologists as they were trained in evoked potentials; another text, Otoacoustic Emissions (edited with Martin Robinette), is the only available complete resource on the subject; and he has played a key role in facilitating universal hearing screening of newborns across the U. S.
Glattke (BA, University of Arizona, 1962; MA, University of Michigan, 1963; PhD, University of Iowa, 1968) is also a gifted teacher who is dedicated to the belief that the professions must diversify culturally to reflect changing U. S. demographics. "He has been unswerving in his commitment to multicultural issues," says Patricia Larkins Hicks of the Outcomes Management Group Ltd. of Columbus, Ohio. "Specifically, he has been a strong advocate for the American Indian." Glattke has been instrumental in obtaining awards from the U. S. Department of Education for the American Indian Professional Training Program at the University of Arizona where he is professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences. More than 30 American Indian students have received MS degrees since he took responsibility for the program. He is also a mentor and supporter of the cause of American Indian health. His commitment to the Phoenix Indian Medical Center (PIMC), which began in 1978, was formally honored in 1995 with the celebration at PIMC of "Dr. Ted Glattke Day."
ASHA, as well as other organizations, have been the beneficiaries over the years of Glattke's many contributions. He is an ASHA Fellow, has served as ASHA's Convention program chair, has edited several ASHA publications, has been Vice President for Education and Scientific Affairs, and chair of the Council on Professional Standards, among other tasks. He has received the Honors also of the Arizona Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Career Teaching Award of the Faculty of Science of the University of Arizona, and the Distinguished Alumni Award of the University of Iowa's Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology.
Glattke's work, according to Martin Robinette of the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, defies description: "Although traditionally there are attempts to parcel out an individual's work into somewhat rigid and self-contained categories, to attempt to do so with Ted ignores his self-perception and his motivation. Ted epitomizes the complete audiologist: dedicated, scholarly, focused, and caring of colleagues, students, and patients."
Throughout his almost 40-year career, Leonard L. "Chick" LaPointe has been a visionary in the area of neurogenic communication disorders.
His is a history of "firsts" spanning 4 decades. In the 1960s he was among the first to call attention to people with right hemisphere brain damage and was the first to demonstrate that speech-language pathologists could help these patients. In the 1970s he was the first to document the presence of oral-nonverbal apraxia and demonstrate how it should be assessed. He also developed the Base-10 response form to show what occurs in treatment and to document treatment effects. This led to the application of single-case treatment designs that document outcomes and efficacy. In the 1980s, LaPointe created the Reading Comprehension Battery for Aphasia and provided a means for measuring and managing reading deficits. In the 1990s, his work on allocation of attention provided an explanation of why people with aphasia vary in their responses, and offered means to control the variability.
LaPointe (BA, Michigan State University, 1961; MA and PhD, both from the University of Colorado, Boulder, 1966 and 1969, respectively) has written three books, 30 book chapters, and over 80 journal articles, and has made over 300 presentations nationally and internationally. He is an ASHA Fellow, a recipient of the Second Award for Scientific Exhibits from the XV World Conference of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, and founding and current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology.
He has served in various capacities for ASHA, including associate editor of the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, site visitor for the Educational Standards Board, and member of the Committee for Revision of the National Examination in Speech-Language Pathology. LaPointe, who is currently professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Arizona State University, has also served the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences, the National Aphasia Association, the Florida Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Arizona Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and other organizations.
Raymond D. Kent of the University of Wisconsin-Madison points to LaPointe as one of the very few clinician-scholars whose research clarifies the "treacherous territory" of agnosia, apraxia, and aphasia: "His research demonstrates the clarity of his vision and should be an encouragement to those who would dare to study these complex disorders."
Robert L. Ringel, executive vice president for academic affairs and professor of Audiology and Speech Sciences at Purdue University, has contributed significantly to the scientific understanding of human communication and its disorders as well as to the stature of the communication sciences in academia.
In the area of research, Ringel's pioneering work on oral-sensory feedback mechanisms defined the nature of scientific inquiry in that field. More recently, his research attention has focused upon defining the relationship between aging and voice production. In education, he has contributed greatly to the quality of higher education in the communication sciences and disorders. In higher education administration, Ringel was appointed dean of the School of Humanities, Social Science, and Education at Purdue University when he was only 36 years old, and served for 13 years. In that capacity, Ringel not only helped to provide the administrative support to build an excellent program in the communication sciences and disorders, but was at the forefront of efforts to improve minority recruitment and retention in the discipline. Programs developed under Ringel's supervision have received a number of affirmative action awards. Following this deanship, Ringel was appointed Purdue's vice president and dean of the graduate school. In 1991 he was asked to serve his university as its executive vice president for academic affairs (The Provost). In these capacities, he has been able to speak on behalf of the discipline and profession from a national perspective.
Ringel (BA, Brooklyn College, 1959; MS and PhD, both Purdue University, 1960 and 1962, respectively) is an ASHA Fellow and has also received the Alumnus Award of Honor and Distinguished Alumni Award from Brooklyn College, and the Editors Award for Article of Highest Scientific Merit for 1979 from the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research. He has published and presented numerous articles and served on many ASHA committees, councils, and boards. As an active member of ASHA's Board of Trustees, Ringel's advice was instrumental in the formation of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation, and his contributions to ASHA's Advisory and Development Board and to the Committee on Doctoral Education were invaluable.
Ringel's work on behalf of doctoral education in the discipline of communication sciences and disorders, according to Richard M. Flower, professor emeritus of the University of California, San Francisco, deserves particular recognition: "He offers valuable insights since he is able to view these controversies both as an experienced teacher of clinicians and a university administrator."
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