SHAV Honors and Awards

The SHAV Honors Committee is responsible for recommending candidates for various honors of the Association. These include the SHAV Fellows, SHAV Early Career Professional, as well as Outstanding Student Leader. The Honors Committee also recommends the state’s nominee for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation’s State Clinical Achievement Award to the Board. A description and criteria for each award is listed below.

Awards of the Association

Fellow Award

Fellowship may be bestowed upon any member upon the recommendation of the Honors Committee and a unanimous vote of the Board, provided they meet the following criteria:

●     Member of the Association.

●     Active participant in the professions of audiology and/or speech-language pathology for not less than five years.

●     Outstanding contribution to the Association through service on committees, the Board, or other significant capacity.

●     Outstanding contribution to the professions in at least two of these areas: clinical service, academic, or clinical teaching, research, and publications that contribute to the knowledge of the field, and administrative service.

State Clinical Achievement and the nominee for the ASHF DiCarlo Award:

●     Member of the Association.

●     Demonstrated advancement of knowledge in clinical practice as evidenced by significant recent accomplishment within the past six years in audiology and/or speech-language pathology. The accomplishment must be specific, well defined, and clearly within the time limit of the last six years. This is not considered a lifetime achievement.

More information can be found here:  https://www.ashfoundation.org/apply/louis-dicarlo-award-for-recent-clinical-achievement-recipients/

Outstanding Student Leader:

●     Member of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

●     Active participant in NSSLHA for not less than 18 months.

●     Member of the Association or participant in SHAV’s Annual Conference.

●     Outstanding contributor to local or national NSSLHA or to SHAV.

Early Career Professional:

●     Member of the Association.

●     Engaged in the profession for 10 years or less.

●     Demonstrated advancement of knowledge in clinical practice or research as evidenced by significant accomplishment within the past five years in audiology or speech-language pathology.

Additionally, the Honors Committee can solicit nominations for the following ASHF Awards:

Frank R. Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award https://www.ashfoundation.org/apply/frank-kleffner-lifetime-clinical-career-award-recipients/

Rolland J. Van Hattum Award for Contribution in the Schools Recipients https://www.ashfoundation.org/apply/rolland-van-hattum-award-for-contribution-in-the-schools-recipients/

Procedures:

Persons submitting a nomination shall complete the nomination form, a letter of recommendation from the nominator, and two additional letters of recommendation. The due date shall be posted on the SHAV website and in the weekly emails.

Mark your calendar to celebrate the achievements of this year’s nominees at the SHAV Convention on Saturday, March 22.

Questions? Please contact any the member of the committee. Thank you for your assistance in recognizing the excellence among us!

Ed Vann, Chair, cev2slp@gmail.com

Gabrielle DeFazio, gabrielle.defazio@gmail.com

Johanna Klein, jklein@rockingham.k12.va.us

Lissa Power-deFur, powerdefurea@longwood.edu

Jackie Ragland, raglandjacquelyn@gmail.com

Darlene Robke, darlenerobke@hotmail.com