1. Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2009 Honors and Awards

2. 2008 Honors and Awards Committee Constance Qualls Mick McNeill, Brooke Hallowell Celia Hooper, monitoring officer

3. For the ceremony…. Please turn off your cell phones … “and your mouths” to quote Julie Masterson, 2008

4. Three awards today: Award of Appreciation, for individuals with significant contributions to the Council or to the discipline; Diversity Incentive Award, for individuals or programs making significant contributions in achieving diversity in CSD, especially increasing the presence of under- represented populations; Award for Distinguished Contributions, for individuals, agencies, orgs, businesses, in recognition of significant and sustained contributions to the Council’s ability to serve members, or which have enriched education in CSD.

5. Read about all our awards http://www.capcsd.org/documents/Criteri aForHonorsAwards.pdf

6. Award of Appreciation

7. Loretta Nunez Award of Appreciation ASHA’s Director of Academic Affairs Provides leadership on behalf of educational preparation of SLPs and AUDs Identifies relevant issues, forcasts needs and trends in higher ed Provides leadership for the development of new models of higher ed Provides technical and management leadership to all other units and to higher ed orgs, (cont.)

8. And we REALY appreciate… Her development of resources that support academic programs and faculty, especially TIRELESS work with us on HES, CSDCAS, several summits, all with charm and grace and being member centered! Thank you, Loretta!

9. Diversity Incentive Award

10. Joe Melcher Diversity Incentive Award Joe has been at, an HBCU, for 37 years! He is a walking inclusion-diversity model He has been a member of NBASLH for years and received the 2005 Scholar-Mentor award He was a founding member of L’GASP and has been co-chair; many national presentations on sexual orientation + communication

11. And more! Served on ASHA’s multicultural board Adv. Board, Internat’l Conf on Diversity Board of Dir. P-FLAG, New Orleans, chairing scholarship committee $200k given away Hurricane Joe!

12. Award for Distinguished Contributions

13. In 1947 Kay Electric Co. was founded by Elmo “Bud” Crump, a former Bell Labs engineer + a partner 1951 first commercial version of sound spectrograph, the Sona- Graph

14. Distinguished Contributions, 1960s - today Became Kay Elemetrics, then, with instrumentation and software that changed speech, voice and swallowing research and clinical app ALWAYS working with the scientist for the client, over 40 years

15. Join me in thanking our honorees again! And back to the conference…