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.
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. The 2011 MSLP application period is closed. We are pleased to announce the participants in the MSLP Class of 2011.
Research Mentoring-Pair Travel Award (RMPTA)
The Research Mentoring-Pair Travel Award Program (RMPTA) is designed to foster the professional development of students, clinicians, and emerging scientists who have expressed an interest in research careers in communication sciences and disorders. RMPTA is given in conjunction with the Research Symposium held at the annual ASHA Convention. The award provides travel funds for recipients and their mentors to attend the Research Symposium at 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 (SRTA)
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.
ASHA Research Education and Mentoring Programs
Clinical Practice Research Institute (CPRI)
The Clinical Practice Research Institute (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.
Grant Review and Reviewer Training
Grant Review and Reviewer Training has two aims: 1) to provide specific instruction to junior researchers on how to review research grants, with a special emphasis on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) review process; and 2) to conduct reviews of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHF) research grant applications. Junior researchers learn about the key components of the written review process, how to address review challenges, and how to prepare written summaries of review panel discussions.
Lessons For Success
Lessons for Success aims to provide intensive training to a promising group of emerging scientists in the areas of (a) grant preparation and funding opportunities, (b) development and management of a successful program of research, and (c) advancement of professional competencies. This grant writing "boot camp" provides invaluable advice and mentoring from senior faculty with strong histories of research funding.
Research Symposium at ASHA Convention
The Research Symposium aims to bring together clinicians and researchers at ASHA's annual Convention, in order to discuss current research that has important implications for the study of communication processes and disorders. Each year's symposium focuses on a specific research theme. Research is presented by invited speakers who are experts in their fields.
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.
PROGENY pairs faculty researchers with undergraduate students who are first authors on poster presentations at the annual ASHA Convention. PROGENY highlights and supports the work of these undergraduates by providing them with an opportunity to talk with experienced researchers about their research, and about pursuing an academic-research career.
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.