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ASHA Announcements
Academic Programs: Register Early for 2008 Graduate School Fair
ASHA is now accepting registrations from academic programs for the Graduate School Fair at the ASHA Convention in November 2008. Last year, ASHA registered the highest number of students of any national convention. Get your academic program involved in the best resource that NSSLHA and ASHA have to offer for recruiting students. Register early for the best rate.
CAA Call for Nominations – June 1 Deadline
The Nominating Committee for the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) is soliciting nominations to fill six vacancies on the CAA. Four of these vacancies are academic positions—one audiologist and three speech-language pathologists. If one of your professional goals is to ensure the availability of quality audiology and speech-language pathology academic programs, consider serving on the CAA. Visit the ASHA Web site to read more about the CAA's activities and the position descriptions, and to obtain an application form.
Student Research Grant in Audiology Competition—one $2,000 grant in 2008!
This grant supports master's and doctoral students in communication sciences and disorders for new research in clinical or rehabilitative audiology.
New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarship Competition—at least twenty $10,000 scholarships in 2008!
This program supports strong doctoral candidates who will pursue a teacher-investigator career in the academic environment at the university/college level. Applications must be received by April 28. Selection of recipients will be completed and funding will be made available in November 2008.
ASHA Audiology-Hearing Science Research Travel Award
Attention audiology or hearing science students! Applications will soon be accepted from AuD, PhD, and postdoctoral fellows for the ASHA Audiology-Hearing Science Research Travel Award. Ten awardees will each receive a stipend of $300 and complimentary early bird student registration for the ASHA Convention to be held in Chicago this November. The deadline for submitting an application is May 15, 2008. A PDF application will be posted on the ASHA Web site in the near future. For information, send an e-mail message to audiology@asha.org.
ASHA Members May Now Submit Resolutions Using an Online Form
Read the Resolutions Process page on the Web site and the Principles for Preparation of Resolutions page to make sure a resolution is your most appropriate course of action!
2008 Minority Student Leadership Program Call for Applications Now Open
Students who wish to enhance their leadership skills, interact with leaders in the professions, and learn how their Association works should apply. All students are eligible to apply; however, preference will be given to students from racial/ethnic minority backgrounds that have historically been underrepresented in the Association.
18th Annual NIDCD-Sponsored Research Symposium at the 2008 ASHA Convention
This daylong symposium brings together distinguished researchers in the area of neurobiology, who will address such topics as: the neurobiology of the developing infant in health and disease, recent advances in brain imaging and tractography, and the translation of developmental neurobiological research into promising interventions. For further information, please contact Jessica Bowen Nunez at jbowen@asha.org.
New Practice Policy Document Available
Guidelines for Audiologists Providing Informational and Adjustment Counseling to Families of Infants and Young Children With Hearing Loss Birth to 5 Years of Age has been posted on the ASHA Web site.
Ethics Education Instructional Manual
Ethics Education is designed to serve as a reference for college and university faculty as well as those working with the professions. This must-have manual on teaching ethics includes case studies, decision-making models, and sample syllabi. Order online or call ASHA Product Sales at 888-498-6699.
Better Hearing and Speech Month is Coming! Are You Ready?
Using the tagline "Helping People Communicate" for this year's BHSM program, ASHA has developed nearly 60 promotional products to help you promote your services and the professions.
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Other Announcements
Policy Requires NIH Funded Research Be Deposited in the National Library of Medicine's PuBMed Central
The NIH Public Access Policy requires that articles written about NIH funded research be deposited in the National Library of Medicine's PuBMed Central upon acceptance. ASHA's Publications Board asks that authors of such articles specify to NIH that ASHA requests a 12 month embargo prior to making the article publicly available. ASHA's Publication Board will be posting its policy on the journals site and publishing information in The ASHA Leader. For questions or comments about submitting articles to ASHA journals under this new policy, contact Joanne Jessen at jjessen@asha.org.
Department of Education Proposal for Revised Rules on Student Privacy
Proposed changes to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) were announced by the Department of Education. Comments due by May 8, 2008.
Request for Comments on Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework
The Healthy People Curriculum Task Force supported by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) is revising the Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework. Deadline for comments and feedback is April 25, 2008.
Call for Student Volunteers
The Voice Foundation's 37th Annual Symposium, "Care of the Professional Voice," will be held May 28 through June 1, 2008. Registration fee will be waived for volunteers!
Conversion Discount
Help your graduating master's and doctoral students get their ASHA Conversion Discount. Read the information for 2008/2009 graduates on the NSSLHA Web site for a smooth transition from NSSLHA to ASHA.
New Resources Available from the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA)
The NPA has a variety of new and updated resources available online on its Web site. They include a new guide on tax issues for postdocs, an updated Visa guide for international postdocs, and a new toolkit on training postdocs in the responsible conduct of research (RCR).
Pre-Elementary Education Study (PEELS) Database Training Seminar
Two three-day seminars on the use of longitudinal datasets for education research and policy analysis will be held June 24-26, 2008 in Washington D.C. The seminars will focus on the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS) database and the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2 (NLTS2) database. PEELS and NLTS2 study children and youth with disabilities and are administered by the National Center for Special Education Research within the Institute of Education Sciences. Both seminars are open to advanced graduate students and faculty members from colleges and universities nationwide and to researchers, education practitioners, and policy analysts from federal, state, and local education and human services agencies and professional associations. Application deadline is April 30th.
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Spotlight on People and Programs
2008 National Elections—Board of Directors Candidates
The Committee on Nominations and Elections met at the ASHA National Office March 2–3 to prepare a slate of candidates for the 2008 national elections to the Board of Directors. Please visit the ASHA Web site for the slate for positions on the Board of Directors.
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Featured Question—Distance Education
What information is available to faculty and students on distance education and online learning?
Distance education and online learning are no longer considered cutting-edge. It is now common for academic programs to offer online course work and distance education options within the curriculum. The CAA has been including distance education in its accreditation since at least 1998. There are a number of programs in communication sciences and disorders that offer courses online. EdFind, the new online search engine, allows students and others to search and sort for programs that offer classes via distance education. The new Higher Education Data System (HES) also tracks technology being utilized at academic programs that offer distance education. As data are collected in the next few years, it is anticipated that trends will become evident.
The following resources are available to assist both faculty and students:
ASHA Resources
Other Resources
Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning [PDF]
This fifth annual report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Petersen's Distance Learning Assessment
Find out what kind of learning environment would be best for you: a traditional setting or a distance learning program.
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Funding Opportunities
Grant: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Lab to Marketplace: Tools for Brain and Behavioral Research (SBIR [R43/R44])
Summary: The NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research is a framework to enhance cooperative activities among the NIH Office of the Director and 15 NIH Institutes and Centers that support research on the nervous system. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is released in affiliation with the Neuroscience Blueprint, with Institutes and Centers participating independently, and with participation by Institutes and Centers that are not part of the Blueprint. This FOA encourages the translation of technologies for brain or behavioral research from academic and other non-small business research sectors to the marketplace. Solicited from small business concerns (SBCs) are Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications that propose to further develop, make more robust, and make more user-friendly such technologies in preparation for commercial dissemination. It is expected that this activity will require partnerships and close collaboration between the original developers of these technologies and SBCs, which may be accomplished in any of a number of ways, including the use of multiple principle investigators.
Funds: Number and amount of awards will vary based on nature and scope of proposed research.
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates; see announcement.
Grant: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: NIH Revision Awards for Studying Interactions Among Social, Behavioral, and Genetic Factors in Health (R01)
Summary: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issues this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to invite applications from current NIH-funded investigators to study how interactions among genetic and behavioral/social factors influence health and disease.
Funds: Number and amount of awards will vary based on nature and scope of proposed research.
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): May 13, 2008
Grant: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: NIH Revision Awards for Studying Interactions Among Social, Behavioral, and Genetic Factors in Health (R21)
Summary: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issues this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to invite applications from current NIH-funded investigators to study how interactions among genetic and behavioral/social factors influence health and disease.
Funds: Number and amount of awards will vary based on nature and scope of proposed research.
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): May 13, 2008
Grant: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Community Participation Research Targeting the Medically Underserved (R01)
Summary: The ultimate goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) with a special review issued by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is to solicit Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose research on health promotion, disease prevention, and health disparities that is jointly conducted by communities and researchers and targets medically underserved areas (MUAs) and medically underserved populations (MUPs) as defined by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Funds: Number and amount of awards will vary based on nature and scope of proposed research.
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): May 16, 2008; May 15, 2009; and May 14, 2010
Grant: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Community Participation Research Targeting the Medically Underserved (R21)
Summary: The ultimate goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is to solicit Exploratory/Developmental (R21) grant applications that propose research on health promotion, disease prevention, and health disparities that is jointly conducted by communities and researchers and targets medically underserved areas (MUAs) and medically underserved populations (MUPs) as defined by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Funds: Number and amount of awards will vary based on nature and scope of proposed research.
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): May 14, 2010
Grant: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Community Participation in Research (R01)
Summary: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) solicits R01 grant applications that propose intervention research on health promotion, disease prevention, and health disparities that communities and researchers jointly conduct.
Funds: Number and amount of awards will vary based on nature and scope of proposed research.
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates; see announcement.
Grant: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: PHS 2008-02 Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH, CDC, and FDA for Small Business Innovation Research Grant Applications (Parent SBIR [R43/R44])
Summary: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) invites eligible U.S. small business concerns (SBCs) to submit Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications. SBCs that have the research capabilities and technological expertise to contribute to the R&D mission(s) of the NIH, CDC, and FDA awarding components identified in this FOA are encouraged to submit SBIR grant applications in response to identified topics (see PHS 2008-2 SBIR/STTR Program Descriptions and Research Topics for NIH, CDC, and FDA [DOC, 1.4MB]).
Funds: Number and amount of awards will vary based on nature and scope of proposed research.
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates; see announcement.
Grant: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: PHS 2008-02 Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH for Small Business Technology Transfer Grant Applications (Parent STTR [R41/R42])
Summary: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) invites eligible U.S. small business concerns (SBCs) to submit Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant applications. SBCs that have the research capabilities and technological expertise to contribute to the R&D mission(s) of the NIH awarding components identified in this FOA are encouraged to submit STTR grant applications in response to identified topics (see PHS 2008-2 SBIR/STTR Program Descriptions and Research Topics for NIH, CDC, and FDA [DOC, 1.4MB]).
Funds: Number and amount of awards will vary based on nature and scope of proposed research.
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates; see announcement.
Subscribe to the ASHA Research E-Newsletter
Subscribe to a weekly, noninteractive e-newsletter (members only) that provides information about available funding opportunities and more.
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Upcoming Events
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Other Events
Visit the Faculty, Researchers, and PhD Students events page for information on more events of interest to the academic and research community.
Search for Courses
Finding a distance education course offered for ASHA continuing education units (CEUs) is just a click away! Our Course Search application makes it easier than ever to access the more than 7,800 distance learning courses offered annually for ASHA CEUs by the 500+ ASHA Approved CE Providers. ASHA BookTalk, Learn & Earn, and Independent Study
Get more information about the programs, fees, and registration applications on the ASHA Web site or contact Renee Levinson, ASHA Continuing Education, 800-498-2071.
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Special Interest Divisions
CLD Division Hosts Research Conference in June
ASHA Special Interest Division 14, Communication Sciences and Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations, will hold its first research conference, "State of the Research on CLD Populations: Establishing Our Foundation and Advancing Our Science," at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque on June 6–7, 2008.
ASHA Journals
Need Help Keeping Up With Current Research?
Read on! HighWire Press, ASHA journals' host site, hosts more than 1,000 journals with more than 4 million articles. You can customize according to your research needs by registering on the HighWire site and browsing the alphabetical list of journals. Nearly all of them, including ASHA journals, offer free e-TOCs (tables of contents e-mailed with each new issue) as well as CiteTrack. Using CiteTrack, you can receive e-alerts based on topic, author, or when a specific article is cited. And try out the search engine on HighWire. A single search can cover all HighWire journals and include PubMed as well. Don't forget to sign up for e-TOC alerts to ASHA journals.
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