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State Education Advocacy Leaders (SEALs) met in Miami Beach during ASHA's 2006 Annual Convention. Representatives from 25 states participated in discussions and received updates from ASHA staff on IDEA, ASHA's Focused Initiatives, Response to Intervention, and Maintenance of Personnel Standards. SEALs are appointed by state speech-language-hearing associations to enhance and perpetuate the advocacy, leadership, and clinical management skills of school-based ASHA members at the state and local levels to influence administrative and public policy decisions that affect the delivery of speech-language pathology and audiology services in school settings. An orientation for state association presidents and new SEALs was also held. For more information on the SEALs, please contact Eileen Crowe, ASHA's Director of State Association Relations, via e-mail at ecrowe@asha.org or by phone at 800-498-2071, ext. 4221.
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