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Do you know an outstanding clinician whose work you admire? Do you know a leader who has a special spark that ignites those around him or her? Is there a local clinician who has influenced your practice or contributed to our professional community for many years? If colleagues come to mind, then I’d like to encourage you to nominate that person for recognition at the OSHA Fall Conference in Vancouver, WA. Please take the time to consider making nominations to OSHA for these awards. This is an excellent venue to recognize your colleagues who have done outstanding work and honors them in a unique way. It doesn’t take a lot of time, and it’s a great way to recognize colleagues that you work with on a daily basis. We are especially looking for those colleagues that really deserve recognition for the great work they do, but keep plugging along regardless of receiving recognition or not.

Honors of the Association is designated as a “lifetime achievement” award. The intent of this award is to recognize an individual for outstanding history of clinical practice in the field of speech-language pathology, audiology or education of the deaf/HOH.  This award may also be used to recognize outstanding Advocacy or Program Sponsorship by an Agency or Organization.

Outstanding Clinician Award: Schools/ EI/ECSE recognizes a speech-language pathologist, audiologist, speech-language pathology assistant or educator of the deaf/HOH who consistently demonstrates outstanding clinical, advocacy or leadership skills in the public school system. This award may recognize general clinical work or a specific, recent clinical achievement.

Outstanding Clinician Award: Clinics, Hospitals, Private Practice recognizes a speech-language pathologist, speech-language pathology assistant, audiologist or educator of the deaf/HOH in a clinic, hospital or private practice who consistently demonstrates outstanding clinical, advocacy and/or leadership skills. This award may recognize general clinical work or a specific, recent clinical achievement.

Award of Clinicianship recognizes a speech-language pathologist, speech-language pathology assistant, audiologist or educator of the deaf/HOH whose dedication to the field is reflected in strong clinical and/or leadership skills paired with compassion, empathy, humor and acts of support to colleagues and clients. Beyond clinical skills- this person’s spirit touches and inspires those around them. This award may also be used to recognize an individual who has made a contribution to the profession in an unusual way.

Award of Outstanding Research or Teaching recognizes colleagues whose published research or teaching (professional preparation or continuing education) has contributed to advancing clinical knowledge and/or practice in the fields of speech-language pathology, audiology or education of the deaf/HOH.

Award of Scholarship is from the faculty of each university program and is to recognize a graduate student entering into the second year of their program.

President’s Award is given by the president and designed to award special recognition to an executive board member, committee chair or member of the association who provided exemplary service to the association. 

 

B. Nominee Information: name, professional title, affiliation and mailing address.

C. Individual Submitting Nomination: name, title, address, daytime phone, fax, email address.

2. NOMINATION

D. A description of the nominee’s specific professional contributions or attributes for which s/he is being nominated. Include a statement of the impact and significance of these skills or activities as they related to the award. Segments of this description may be read during the awards presentation.

E. Include a resume of the educational and professional activities of the nominee (if available). Hint: contact a close family member such as a spouse

F. Nominations for Honors of the Association must include a brief biographical introduction of the nominee, summarizing his or her educational and career activities. Again, segments of this may be read at the awards ceremony.

3. LETTERS OF CO-SPONSORSHIP AND SUPPORT

G. Attach THREE letters of co-sponsorship of the nomination from speech-language pathologists, audiologists, speech-language pathology assistants, educators of the deaf/HOH or related professionals. Up to two additional letters of support of the nomination by non-members may be included. These letters may include a statement of support from a beneficiary of services (or his or her parent), when appropriate.

PROCEDURES FOR NOMINATION FOR OSHA AWARDS:

Any member or non-member of the association may submit a nomination for OSHA awards.  All nominees for OSHA awards must be members of OSHA with the exception of agencies or organizations recognized with Honors of the Association.  Nominations should not be made known to the nominee prior to their selection.  With exception to the student scholarship and President’s award, to be elected, the nominee must have participated in the profession for no less than five years and have made an outstanding contribution as defined by the award for which they are nominated. No member may participate as sponsor and/or cosponsor for more than one nominee in any calendar year.  All submissions will be reviewed and determined by an affirmative vote of four members of the Nomination and Honors Committee comprised of regional representatives, past honorees and past presidents of the association.

Please submit nomination on a typed, single spaced document not to exceed one coversheet, two pages plus three letters of co-sponsorship of the nomination by members of the association.

Submit the completed nomination packet to the Chair of the Nominations and Honors Committee: Jennifer Larsen c/o OSHA PO Box 2042 Salem, Oregon 97308 or via email: jennyl@artzcenter.org. 

 

Deadline for submission is August 15, 2010.

If you have questions, please contact Jennifer Larsen, (503) 802-5262 or jennyl@artzcenter.org