ASHA Award Programs
ASHA has created award programs to foster leadership and promote careers in academia and research. Programs are available to undergraduate, master's, AuD, and PhD students enrolled in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) programs; postdoctoral fellows; and new faculty.
- Advancing Academic-Research Careers (AARC) Award
This award is given to new faculty in higher education to support their academic and research endeavors in the field of communication sciences and disorders (CSD).
- Audiology/Hearing Science Research Travel Award (ARTA)
ASHA is offering audiology-hearing science research travel awards for the ASHA Convention to support the research interests of emerging scientists in audiology and hearing science, and encourage careers in science and research.
- International Research Travel Award (IRTA)
This award will facilitate emerging scientists and practitioners with interests in Autism Spectrum Disorders opportunities to participate in The Global Solutions in Research and Clinical Practice in CSD Conference at the IALP World Congress (2010) in Athens, Greece. This travel award is supported through a conference grant from NIDCD.
- Minority Student Leadership Program (MSLP)
The MSLP is open to students from under-represented populations who wish to enhance their leadership skills, interact with leaders in the professions, and learn how their association works.
- Research Mentoring-Pair Travel Award
This award is designed to foster research careers of students and emerging scientists who are actively engaged in research in communication sciences and disorders. The award provides travel funds for recipients and their mentors to attend the NIDCD-sponsored Research Symposium at the annual ASHA Convention.
- Student Ethics Essay Award (SEEA)
The annual Student Ethics Essay Award (SEEA) program is designed to provide opportunities for NSSLHA members who are undergraduate or graduate students in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) to think about ethical decision making as they prepare for careers in audiology, speech-language pathology, or speech, language, and hearing sciences.
- Students Preparing for Academic & Research Careers (SPARC) Award
The goal of SPARC is to foster students' interest in the pursuit of PhD education and careers in academia to address personnel shortages in higher education within the discipline of communication sciences and disorders (CSD).
- Student Research Travel Award
ASHA offers student research travel awards to help students attend ASHA’s annual Convention to highlight the research activities of emerging scientists and encourage careers in science and research.
- Clinical Practice Research Institute (CPRI) Scholars
CPRI is designed to accelerate the generation of research addressing evidence-based practice in CSD. This six-month program provides educational and mentoring support to researchers to write grants and advance their program of research on topics relevant to surveillance, prevention, identification, diagnosis, assessment, treatment, outcome measurement, quality improvement and/or to compare models of service delivery in our discipline.
- Lessons-for-Success: Developing the Emerging Scientist
The aim of this annual conference is to provide intensive training to a select group of emerging scientists in the areas of grant preparation and funding, development and management of competitive research programs, and advancement of professional competencies.
- Research Symposium Sponsored by NIDCD
The annual research symposium brings together researchers to learn about and discuss the annual symposium topic. The Research Mentoring-Pair Travel Award (RMPTA) is offered in conjunction with this program. This award provides a stipend to mentor-mentee pairs who have indicated an interest in CSD research. The monies are intended to offset some of the cost of attending the Symposium (and annual ASHA Convention).
- Grant Review and Reviewer Training Sponsored by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHF) and ASHA’s Research and Scientific Affairs Committee (RSAC)
The Grant Review and Reviewer Training program provides specific instruction to junior faculty members on how to review research grants, with a special emphasis on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) review process.
- Mentoring Academic and Research Careers (MARC)
The MARC program is an online mentoring match program designed specifically to keep PhD students, junior faculty, and postdoctoral scholars on target to achieve and sustain a rewarding career in academia through one-on-one mentoring opportunities.
- Student to Empowered Professional (S.T.E.P.)
The S.T.E.P. program offers one-to-one mentoring for students enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and doctoral communication sciences and disorders programs. All students are eligible to apply, however, preference for program placement and matching with mentors will be given to those students from racial/ethnic backgrounds that have been historically underrepresented in the communication sciences and disorders professions. Students are strongly encouraged to be NSSLHA members in order to reap the full benefits of the S.T.E.P. mentoring program.