Public School Committee Mission Statement:
The purpose of the Committee on Public Schools (PSC) is to support and represent public school personnel affiliated with the Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association (MSHA) including Speech/Language Pathologists, Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, Educataional Audiologists, Supervisors of Speech-Language-Hearing Services and other educational personnel. The PSC monitors and responds to issues affecting the provision of services in the public schools. In addition, the PSC encourages and celebrates excellence in public school programs through the conferring of awards.
The Public School Committee consists of speech, language and hearing professionals from across the state of Michigan. The functions of the committee include:
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Monitors issues affecting provision of services in the public schools
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Coordinates the Public School Forum held at the MSHA Annual Conference
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Reviews nominations and selects recipients for the MSHA Program of the Year Award
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Submits suggestions to the Vice President for Professional Development and Education for invited speakers at the MSHA Annual Conference.
Everyone is invited to attend and participate in meetings. If you cannot attend, please send your ideas, questions or comments to or Lori Tavtigian 2015 V-P for SLP-Public School.
May is Better Hearing and Speech Month! BHSM provides an opportunity to raise awareness about communication disorders and role of Speech-Language Pathologist and Audiologists in providing life-altering treatment. For more information.
Licensure Information
LARA Website
FAQs regarding Licensure
Steps for Licensure
Fingerprinting Information: http://www.l1enrollment.com/locations/?st=mi
To check on the status of a license
Please direct all questions pertaining to licensure to LARA at bhpinfo@michigan.org
Public School Committee Lending Library
To access MSHA's lending library, go to www.washtenawisd.org to view the MSHA collection and borrow materials. Instructions for checkout are on the site and borrowers are responsible for postage.
Click here to view the collection.
The intent of the Public School Committee's Program of the Year Award is to give visible recognition to outstanding speech, language, and hearing programs in the public schools of Michigan and to those persons responsible for their development and implementation.
Networking
The Public School Committee has determined a need to increase outreach to school based members throughout the state. The PSC is striving to identify a MSHA member in each of the 57 intermediate school districts throughout the state who would serve as a contact. Contacts would assume responsibility for relaying concerns of MSHA members within their constituencies to the PSC. In turn, contacts would report back to their colleagues within the ISD any information/support provided by the PSC.
The 57 intermediate school districts are encompassed into four larger regional groups identified within the state:
Region 1: ISDs in the Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan (typically split into two subdivisions)
Region 2: ISDs in Michigan's thumb
Region 3: ISDs in southwestern Michigan
Region 4: ISDs in southeastern Michigan
The 57 MSHA contacts all belong to one of the four regions. ISD contacts would communicate with one another within their respective regions and a single regional representative would be chosen to sit on the PSC steering committee. Additionally, these regional representatives would communicate directly as MSHA liaisons to the Michigan Department of Education.
The Public School Committee is actively recruiting interested MSHA members as contacts. Consider becoming one of the 57 ISD contacts. You need not be a current member of the Public School Committee to volunteer but you need to be a MSHA Member. If interested, contact Lori Tavtigian, Vice Presidents for the Public School Committee at mshapsc@yahoo.com or call 517.332.5691.
The Regional Representatives living a considerable distance from Lansing could fulfill their obligation to communicate with the Steering Committee by correspondence, e-mail and/or telephone conferencing. Attendance at all Steering Committee meetings would not be mandatory.
The following list shows the current representatives:
