The Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association Proudly Presents the

2011 Distingushed Service Award

The Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association is pleased to announced that the recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Service Award is Nancy Kaufman, M.A., CCC-SLP, Speech Pathologist and Director of the Kaufman Children's Center for Speech, Language, Sensory-Motor and Social Connections, Inc. (KCC) of West Bloomfield, Michigan. 

Nancy has worked to help children to become effective vocal communicators and is know worldwide for her expertise in the area of childhood apraxia of speech and other speech sound disorders.  Nancy has spent the past 30 years developing her method, known as the Kaufman Speech to Language Protocol (K-SLP), as well as many products that are now used throughout the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, China and Australia.  Her new instructional DVD, launched in 2010, is the only teaching tool of its kind, featuring over 40 children of different ages and abilities.  Over the course of four hours of instruction on three DVDs, viewers have a front-row seat as Kaufman teaches the basis of the K-SLP approach to successfully increase children's speech intelligibility. 

Families from all over the globe travel to the Kaufman Children's Center in West Bloomfield to obtain evaluation and treatment for their kids.  The center houses Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists and Board Certified Behavior Analysts.

MSHA's Distinguished Service Award is given to individuals who have provided specific act/s or contributions serving the communicatively impaired. In the 70-year history of MSHA, only 17 awards have been given to individuals from throughout the state.

The Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association congratulates Nancy Kaufman.