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The Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association is proud to announce the 2008 Award Recipients:
2008 MSHA Honors of the Association: Lizbeth J. Stevens, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Eastern Michigan University Lizbeth Stevens, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Eastern Michigan University, is the2008 recipient of MSHA Honors of the Association, the highest award the Association can bestow. Liz received this award for her more than 30 years in the profession as a clinician, teacher, and university professor with a specialty in augmentative and alternative communication, and for her tireless devotion to MSHA over a 20-year period. Liz received this award at the recent MSHA Awards Banquet, during our annual conference in Kalamazoo. Here are her acceptance comments: THANK YOU, MSHA I am deeply honored and humbled to receive this award. I would like to thank the MSHA Executive Board for considering me, and, Dodie French, for nominating me. There is nothing more gratifying than being recognized by one’s peers. Thanks to all of you, my colleagues, friends, and mentors. The decision to join MSHA at the onset of my professional career was one of the best I ever made. I have grown personally and professionally through my MSHA connection, making lasting friendships, and sitting in more committee meetings than I care to remember!! While this award is intended to honor my accomplishments, I would be remiss if I did not mention the great support I have experienced through the teamwork in this association. The collective effort of us all has made many more things possible that could not have been achieved by one person alone. And so, I salute you, MSHA! - the Executive Council - the office personnel, Dawn & Kim - and the efforts of individual members who have served so well. I would like to especially thank my husband John Stevens, with whose love and support permitted me to serve. Thank you, John, for allowing me to participate in, as you call them, all those "nonremunerative activities." In conclusion, it has been a privilege to serve MSHA an association which supports those engaged in the most important work of all -- making a difference in the lives of individuals with communication impairments - no effort was ever better spent. I will continue to work to this end. In the words of Helen Keller: "I am only one. But I am one. I cannot do everything. I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." Lizbeth Stevens
The Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association Proudly Presents the 2008 Public School Program of the Year Recipients:
Language Acquisition Program, Holden Elementary School-Warren Consolidated
This program was designed to meet the needs of a growing English Language Learner (ELL) population at Holden Elementary School in Sterling Heights. Holden students commonly hear both English and another language at home, but struggle to develop formal language skills in either language. These students often have difficulty learning to read due to lack of oral language skills. Parents also struggle to help their children at home due to both linguistic differences and the language demands of the curriculum.
The Language Acquisition Program helps K-2 students develop the oral language skills necessary for success in both reading and writing. Andrea Kreulen, the speech-language pathologist, collaborates with classroom teachers to identify at-risk students. These students receive additional language arts instruction in small groups from her. In addition, Andrea coordinates parent workshops. During these workshops, parents work in small groups with staff members to help develop learning materials to use at home with their children. A home phonics program was also implemented.
This program was designed by Andrea Kreulen, M.A., CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist. She has the support the entire staff of Holden Elementary School including Cheryl Priemer, Principal.
Plymouth Canton Educational Park Speech and Language Program-PCEP or "The Park" Plymouth Canton Community Schools
The PCEP Speech & Language Program is housed at the three high schools on campus: Canton High School, Salem High School and Plymouth High School. It also includes a program for students on the Autism Spectrum which is housed a Madonna University in Livonia. The PCEP program provides a a variety of delivery service models to adolescents with speech and/or language problems. The speech-language pathologists at PCEP-Kathleen Zych, Christine Wisniewski, and Andrea Eby- strongly believe that they have unique background, education and training to offer therapy, instruction and support to adolescents with language impairments that interfere with their ability to adequately access the general education curriculum. The speech-language pathologists see their role to be a therapeutic one where they strive to identify where the students' language abilities break down and prevent the students from achieving academic success. Once that is identified, they strive to offer instruction and opportunity for practice of compensatory strategies to improve academic skills. Their role is not to teach or re-teach academic content, but rather to work on improving the underlying language skills needed for academic success. This program is fluid because they continually strive to tweak it or change it to fit the IEP goals of the students in each class or small groups.
The Speech-Langauge Pathologists honored for this program are: Kathleen Currie Zych, M.A., CCC-SLP; Christine Wisniewski, M.A., CCC-SLP; and Andrea Marie Eby, M.A., CCC-SLP.
The Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association Proudly Presents the Recipients of the 2008 Student Scholarship Award:
Congratulations to this year’s MSHA Student Scholarship Award recipients! This year’s recipients were chosen from an unbelievably outstanding group of nominees. They received their checks at the MSHA Awards Luncheon at our recent MSHA Conference in Kalamazoo. Tiffany Nelson, B.S., Central Michigan University, and current Graduate Student at Michigan State University. Tiffany’s area of interest is pediatric traumatic brain injury and she plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Communicative Sciences and Disorders while she continues to do research on the Communication Function Classification System, and with the Artificial Language Lab at MSU with John Eulenberg, Ph.D. Tiffany is from mid-Michigan and has also worked at the Hope Network Rehabilitation Clinic and has worked with the Lansing Area Aphasia Support Group. Carolyn Kennedy, B.A., Calvin College, and current Graduate Student at Western Michigan University. Carolyn is interested in pursing a career in aphasia rehabilitation. She currently is a graduate assistant at WMU and is involved in conducting aphasia treatment trails with the WMU Telehealth Project and is a clinician in the Aphasia Communication Enhancement Program. She hails from Jenison, Michigan. Carolyn has a 4.0 GPA and also majored in Spanish from Calvin College. Jennifer Grima is an undergraduate student in Communicative Sciences and Disorders at Michigan State University. Jennifer hopes to work in an outpatient pediatric clinic within a hospital. Her passion is to "work with and help children not only with their speech, but to also boost their self-confidence with their improved communication skills." She has an extensive background in volunteer work in the United Way and the State of Michigan, where she was a 2003 recipient of the State of Michigan Governor’s Service Award for Youth. She is the current President of MSU’s chapter of NSSLHA. Honors of the Association Recipients (in alphabetical order)
Harold Bate, 1993 Dorothy Billings, 1984 Mary Blair, 1974 H. Harlan Bloomer, 1973 Susan Boersma, 1994 Kathryn Boyer, 2004 Mary Ellen Brandell, 1991 Sandra Briggs, 1982 C. Rebecca Brown Anna Carr, 1955 Michael R. Chial, 1987 John Clancy, 1965 Mary Rose Costello, 1981 Ruth Curtis, 1970 David Daly, 2006 Alvin Davis, 1988 Leo V. Deal, 1990 Jessimae Deuel, 1959 Dorothy Dreyer, 1987 Elsie Edwards, 1971 Frances Eldis, 1986 Robert Erikson, 1991 Ellen Fairbrother, 1994 Susan Fleming, 2007 Gerald Freeman, 1982 Catherine Furbee, 1972 John Gaeth A. Bruce Graham, 1985 Hildred Gross Mary Kennedy, 1971 Ronald Laeder, 1984 Elizabeth Lockwood, 1986 Theodore Mandell, 1982 Daniel E. Martin, 1995 Keith Maxwell, 1971 Robert M. McLauchlin, 1992 Clarence Maedor, 1947 Nickola W. Nelson, 1995 Courtney Osborn, 1970 Hebert Oyer, 1981 Paulette I. Piirainen, 1991 Kathleen Pistono, 1995 Eugene Popielec, 1984 Carl Powley, 1992 Doris Proctor, 1981 Nick J. Quarto, 1985 Mary Jeanne Rintelmann, 1991 Dale Omar Robinson, 1991 Elaine Ledwon-Robinson, 1997 Frank Robinson, 1981 Michael I. Rolnick, 1992 Ralph R. Rupp, 1984 Linda Seestedt-Stanford, 1994 Linda Lou Smith, 1984 William Stephenson, Jr., 1982 Lizbeth Stevens, 2008 Ann Thorne Charles Van Riper, 1972 L. Jean Waldo, 1986 Sheila Powell Ward, 1999 Timothy G. Weise, 2003
Distinguished Service Award Recipients (in alphabetical order)
Richard Baldwin, 1982 Susan Howell Brubaker, 2006 Mary Rose Costello, 1989 Ruth Curtis, 1989 Dorothy E. Dreyer, 1975 John Bryson Eulenberg, 1986 Sandra Oslager Glista, 1996 Edward Hardick, 1975 David F. Katt, 1991 Richard Merson, 2005 Kathleen Pistono, 1987 Gerald Rice, 1974 Ralph R. Rupp, 1978 Norbert Edwin Smith, 1984 Lynn A. Sweeney, 1992
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