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(Albuquerque, NM - November 12, 2007) Carol Westby, PhD, visiting professor at Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia) and Brigham Young University, will receive the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's (ASHA) Honors of the Association award during the 2007 Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), November 15-17 in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Honors of the Association recognizes distinguished contribution to the field of speech, language, and hearing and is the highest honor the Association can give. Honored individuals have made outstanding contributions to the discipline of communication science and disorders, research, administration, or service to state or national organizations.
Dr. Westby is credited with altering the course of clinical thinking about children with language-learning difficulties through research on children whose struggles to speak, read, and write are impeded by a combination of neurobiological and sociocultural factors. For more than 25 years, she has excelled as the principle investigator of major federal and state training grants and field demonstration projects for more than 25 years. Dr. Westby is recognized nationally and internationally for innovative and insightful scholarly and clinical work and has written more than 30 book chapters, 40 journal articles, and made more than 400 presentations throughout the world.
An ASHA Fellow, Westby received ASHA's 2001 Award for Special Contributions in Multicultural Affairs; several awards from the UNM National Student Speech Language Hearing Association; Honors from the New Mexico Speech Language Hearing Association; and two ASHA clinical achievement awards. She was the invited keynote speaker for the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics in 2004.
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.
Nearly 300 exhibitors, including hearing aid manufacturers and other companies in the speech and hearing industries, will showcase innovative products and services in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center's exhibit hall. Technology presentations on products, such as computer software programs as well as alternative and augmentative communication and assistive listening devices were also featured.
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 127,000 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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