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Please describe the specific qualifications and strengths you possess that make you the most qualified candidate for this office.
Over the past 20 years in this profession I have served in a variety of work settings as a speech-language pathologist. My positions include school-based clinician, administrator, university faculty member, and consultant to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. I have gained an extensive understanding of the rewards and challenges of our profession through my service in these settings. I have held volunteer leadership offices in ASHA; The North Carolina Speech Hearing Language Association; the Council of Speech, Language and Hearing Consultants in State Education Agencies; and Special Olympics. I am experienced at managing federal, state, university, and school district grants, as well as NC State department and state convention budgets. My experiences, both personal and professional, allow me to contribute creative, fiscally responsible views to work-related monetary challenges.
In what ways have you been innovative and effective in your service on committees, boards, councils, and work settings?
As chair of ASHA's School Finance Committee, I helped this young committee to gain greater public prominence through posting and maintaining a Web site and presenting the committee's message of self-advocacy in workshops at several state conventions. As a member of ASHA's School Service Delivery Committee, I am helping to gather efficacy research on service delivery options in schools to help inform decisions made by school based clinicians. As president of the Council of Speech, Language and Hearing Consultants in State Education Agencies, I helped the council to grow, renew, and further alliances with ASHA and other professional organizations. As director of the equestrian venue for the 1999 World Games of Special Olympics, I recruited horses from the East Coast of the U.S. and managed the competition and budgetary needs of 176 horses and 133 athletes from 36 countries. I maintain close personal communications with SLPs in NC schools.
What do you want ASHA members to know about you?
I see myself as a dedicated servant leader. I have enjoyed a wealth of personal and professional experiences that uniquely prepare me to serve in a new volunteer leadership role in our Association. I have been awarded many contracts and grants in a variety of amounts and have successfully managed budgets for many charity events, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), and the NC State Department. Chairing UNCG, Communication Sciences and Disorders' scholarship committee is one of my greatest pleasures. I am professionally inspired by the possibility of serving the Association in this new role and I am ready for the challenges this opportunity provides. Every day I am gratified that my role as a master clinician impacts the lives of students in schools, practicing SLPs, and graduate clinicians at UNCG! I frequently say "I have the greatest job" and wholeheartedly believe that.
E-mail: pfflynn@uncg.edu
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