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(St. Louis, MO - November 6, 2006) Deborah Hwa-Froelich, PhD, Associate Professor at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO will be awarded the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation's Louis M. Di Carlo Award for Recent Clinical Achievement Award during the 2006 Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), November 16-18 in Miami Beach, Florida.
The honor recognizes and honors the significant accomplishments to advance clinical service.
Dr. Deborah Hwa-Froelich has won the award for creating and coordinating the Saint Louis University International Adoption Clinic. One of the few developmental adoption clinics in the nation, this interdisciplinary setting is designed to assess the needs of children and their families in the areas of adoption adjustment, child communication, symbolic play, and social-emotional development. The collaborative team offers intervention services in both speech and language treatment and child/family counseling, and provides annual follow-up testing to monitor future development progress. The clinic is an outgrowth of Froehlich's longitudinal research documenting the acquisition of English during the first 12 months post-adoption, and she continues to collect data and feedback on the assessment protocol.
The annual ASHA convention is the most comprehensive development conference for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language and hearing scientists. It features more than 1,500 educational sessions that highlight the latest developments in research and clinical practices for professionals who provide services in schools, hospitals, health care centers, rehabilitation clinics, and other practice settings.
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation is a charitable organization that promotes a better quality of life for children and adults with communication disorders. Its mission is to advance knowledge about the causes and treatment of hearing, speech, and language problems. The ASHFoundation raises funds from individuals, corporations, and organizations to support research, graduate education, and special projects that foster discovery and innovation in the field of communication sciences.
The ASHFoundation is affiliated with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 123,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. Audiologists specialize in preventing and assessing hearing disorders as well as providing audiologic treatment including hearing aids. Speech-language pathologists identify, assess, and treat speech and language problems including swallowing disorders.
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