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2007 AWARD RECIPIENTS
Honors of the Association
Susan M. Fleming, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Wayne State University, will receive the 2007 MSHA Honors of the Association on March 9, 2007 in Ypsilanti. Congratulations Sue for your outstanding contributions to MSHA over time.
Nickola Nelson to Receive the Frank R. Kleffner Clinical Career Award at ASHA
Congratulations to Nickola Nelson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Western Michigan University, who is the 2007 Frank R. Kleffner Clinical Career Award recipient from ASHA. She will receive this award at the November 2007 ASHA Convention in Boston. The Kleffner Clinical Career Award is given to those individuals who demonstrate significant contributions to clinical science and practice over a 20-year career. Dr. Nelson was nominated for her lifelong commitment to innovative work in assessing and treating children and adolescents with language disorders extending across listening, speaking, reading, and writing impairments. Her work has lead to linkages between language research, clinical practice, and classroom settings. She is know for her numerous distinguished works, nationally and internally, through original texts, articles, and teaching.
2006 AWARD RECIPIENTS
Honors of the Association
David A. Daly, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, received 2006 MSHA Honors of the Association on March 17, 2006 in Kalamazoo. David is currently director of Daly's Speech and Language Center, Farmington. His entry into the field of communication disorders and sciences nearly 40 years ago was a direct result of his own fluency disorder. He stuttered throughout his youth and adolescence and continued to be a moderately severe stutterer as he entered college. David's years of struggle and painful memories of rejection became a catalyst for galvanizing his resolve to devote his life to helping other people who stutter.
David A. Daly has made significant contributions in the areas of research, clinical practice, and teaching and mentoring. His unique approach to the treatment of stuttering and his publications on cluttering have been credited by many practitioners as being extremely helpful and beneficial. He has applied his years as a clinical research professor at a major university to the study and understanding of the problem of cluttering. His mentoring of professionals, his publications and presentations on stuttering and cluttering have additionally reached thousands of others who have through his example and teachings been able to provide effective treatment to others.
David has been a supporter and member of the Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association for over 30 years.
Congratulations to David A. Daly!
Distinguished Service Award
Susan Howell Brubaker, M.S., CCC-SLP, received the 2006 MSHA Distinguished Service Award on March 17, 2006 in Kalamazoo. Susan is the Assistant Director at Beaumont Health Center-Speech and Language Pathology in Royal Oak where she has completed 20 years of service as a Speech-Language Pathologist. She has been a mentor, educator and supervisor to many staff members.
Ms. Brubaker has authored eighteen books and workbooks for the aphasia and brain injury populations with titles such as Workbook for Cognitive Skills, The Sourcebook for Speech, Language and Cognition, and Workbook for Language Skills. She has also partnered with Parrot Software and has authored eight computer programs. She also has her own company, Brubaker Books which allows her to continue writing.
Congratulations to Susan Howell Brubaker!
Clinical Service Award
The University of Michigan Residential Aphasia Program
The University of Michigan's Residential Aphasia Program (RAP) is a truly unique program dedicated to helping persons with aphasia regain lost communication skills. This program has been espousing and supporting intensive speech-language treatment since its inception after World War II. Few other programs in this country offer this type of service, and the RAP is the only program of its kind in Michigan. The RAP attracts clients from all over the country of various ages, etiologies of brain injury, and time post onset. We treat clients as young as 16 years and there is no upper age limit.
The program consists of a 6 week intensive experience with speech-language treatment averaging 23 hours each week. A team of 3 speech-language pathologists works on each client's case, with one clinician serving as the primary therapist. This team approach means that the clients benefit from unique perspectives with a common focus towards their specific goals. RAP uses a multi-modal approach to therapy with the goal of functional communication. The majority of treatment is in individual therapy, where the focus is on individual communication goals. Knowing that language use differs depending on context and participants, clients participate in daily group therapy sessions that are designed to support their work on their individual goals. Clients also participate in 3 hours of computer-assisted training in our computer lab.
In addition to intensive speech-language therapy, The RAP also offers music and art therapy. Each week recreational activities in the local community are scheduled where clients can practice newly learned communication skills.
Caregivers are welcome and encouraged to participate in all phases of the treatment program. They sit in on and observe therapy sessions to learn new ways of communication with their loved one.
The RAP offers a weekly conversational language enrichment support group (LEG) facilitated by a speech-language clinician with support from volunteers, some of whom have aphasia. Here the clients from the community are able to meet form bonds and practice talking a sage, non-judgmental environment, while improving their communication skills.
Student Scholarship Awards
Bethany Barrus, Western Michigan University; Katherine Phelan, Wayne State University; Annie Roys, Western Michigan University.
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, 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
Ann Thorne
Charles Van Riper, 1972
L. Jean Waldo, 1986
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