The Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association is proud to announce Award Recipients:
MSHA Honors of the Association Application
MSHA Distinguished Service Award Application
MSHA Outstanding Clinician Award Application
2022 Honors of the Association
Katie Strong, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders was awarded Honors of the Associate on March 25, 2022 at the MSHA Annual Conference in East Lansing. Katie leads the Strong Story Lab where her research explores how therapists can support people with Aphasia rebuild identity by co-constructing stories about who they are. Katie is a Midwest Regional Coordinator for Project BRIDGED for Aphasia, a PCORI funded project to train stakeholders how to collaborate in meaningful research. She also has interest in creating accessible mental health services for people with aphasia. Katie's professional activities include: Lansing Area Aphasia Group Founding Member, MSHFoundation Board Member and Aphasia Access Conversations Podcast Host. The Honors of the Association is the highest award the Association can bestow. Congratulations to Katie!
2022 Student Poster Session Winners
-Early Pandemic Response and Remote Teaching Preparedness of Michigan Teachers: Brooke Barendsen, Sydney Padgett and Eric Hunter, Ph.D., all from Michigan State University.
-Strategies for Working with English Language Learners as Monolingual and Bilingual First Semester Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Students: Madissen Vacha, B.S., Zoe King, B.S., and Courtney Karasinski, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, all from Grand Valley State University.
Thank you to Psi Iota Xi, Michigan chapters Eta Omicron and Theta Tau, for their support of these awards. Our warmest thanks to both Chapters for their continued support of our students.
Honors of the Association Recipients
(in alphabetical order)
Harold Bate | Gerald Freeman | Carl Powley |
Margot Beckerman | Dorothea French | Julie Y. Pratt |
Dorothy Billings | Catherine Furbee | Doris Proctor |
Mary Blair | John Gaeth | Nick Quarto |
H. Harlan Bloomer | Sandra O. Glista | Mary Jeanne Rintelmann |
Susan Carlson | A. Bruce Graham | Dale Omar Robinson |
Heather Balog Kathyrn Boyer Mary Ellen Brandell Sandra Briggs | Hildred Gross Beverly Jaynes Mary Kennedy Dawn Kutney | Elaine Ledwon-Robinson Frank Robinson Michael I. Rolnick Ralph Rupp |
C. Rebecca Brown | Ronald Laeder | Linda Seestedt-Stanford |
Anna Carr | Gary D. Lawson | Linda Lou Smith |
Michael R. Chial John Clancy Mary Rose Costello | Elizabeth Lockwood Theodore Mandell Daniel Martin | Maureen Staskowski William Stephenson, Jr. Lizbeth Stevens Katie Strong |
Ruth Curtis | Keith Maxwell | Ann Thorne |
David Daly | Jan McCosky | Charles Van Riper |
Alvin Davis | Robert M. McLauchlin | L. Jean Walsh |
David Daly | Clarence Maedor | Shelia Powell Ward |
Leo Deal | Angela Massenberg | Timothy G. Weise |
Jessimae Deuel | Richard M. Merson | |
Dorothy Dreyer | Nickola W. Nelson | |
Elsie Edwards Frances Eldis Robert Erickson | Courtney Osborn Herbert Oyer Paulette I. Piirainen | |
Ellen Fairbrother Sue Fleming | Kathleen Pistono Eugene Popielec | |
Distinguished Service Award Recipients
(in alphabetical order)
Richard Baldwin Susan Howell Brubaker | David F. Katt Nancy Kaufman |
Mary Rose Costello | Peter LaPine |
Ruth Curtis | Richard Merson |
Leo V. Deal Dorothy E. Dreyer | Kathleen Pistono Gerald Rice |
Frances Eldis | Ralph R. Rupp |
John Bryson Eulenberg | Norbert Edwin Smith |
Sandra Oslager Glista | John Stevens |
Matt Green | Lynn A. Sweeney |
Edward Hardick | Suzanne Woods |
Kathryn Hillenbrand | |
Jerry Johnson |