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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Student Ethics Essay Award

ASHA is pleased to announce the seventh annual Student Ethics Essay Award (SEEA) competition. This program is conducted as part of ASHA's efforts to enhance ethics education activities. The SEEA is designed to provide opportunities for NSSLHA members who are undergraduate or graduate students in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) to think about ethical decision making as they prepare to start careers in audiology, speech-language pathology, or speech, language, and hearing sciences. The goal of the SEEA is to create greater awareness of situations individuals in CSD careers may encounter that could pose ethical dilemmas and options for addressing these dilemmas.

Students will write an essay on the ethics topic shown below and submit it to their NSSLHA Chapter Advisor for initial review. NSSLHA members who are not affiliated with a specific NSSLHA chapter may submit their entries to their Regional Councilors. Each NSSLHA chapter/Regional Councilor may select up to five student essays for submission to ASHA for the final review and selection process.

Members of ASHA's Board of Ethics will review the entries and select the three winning essays. Monetary prizes (dollar amounts to be determined later) and certificates will be awarded to the writers of the top three essays. Any or all of the winning essays may be published on the ASHA and/or NSSLHA website, in The ASHA Leader, and/or in other ASHA/NSSLHA publications.

Award Eligibility

* Individuals must be a member of a local NSSLHA chapter or a member of the national NSSLHA organization. (Note: Only NSSLHA chapters in good standing with the Association are eligible to submit a member student's essay. NSSLHA chapters may recertify online with the national office.
* Individuals must be enrolled part time or full time during the 2011–2012 academic year in an undergraduate or graduate-level CSD program.
* Graduate students must be enrolled in a program currently accredited (or in Candidacy status) by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology.

2012 Essay Topic

Drawing upon ASHA's Code of Ethics, relevant Issues in Ethics Statements, and other resources, students will write an essay on the following topic: Persons in our professions are as likely as anyone else to suffer from mental illnesses of varying degrees of severity or to suffer from various forms of addiction and substance abuse. The term "impaired practitioner" is widely used to refer to professionals when such illnesses and addictions adversely affect their ability to carry out their responsibilities. Write an essay in which you consider the ethical issues raised by the problem of impaired professionals, giving attention to such questions as the following:

* What ethical responsibilities does the professional have in dealing with his or her own impairment, particularly when it may adversely affect his/her clinical, administrative, supervisory, teaching, research, and/or business practices in the professions of communication sciences and disorders?
* What ethical responsibilities do the colleagues, supervisors, and employers of an impaired professional have?
* What responsibilities should ASHA have in this area and why?
* When the impaired practitioner/researcher falsifies charges for services, misrepresents information in reports or research, abandons patients, fails to document treatment, or violates the Code of Ethics in other ways, should their impairment have a bearing on the findings of the Board of Ethics; and if so, what should that be?

Student Deadline: Students must submit their completed application forms and essays to their NSSLHA Chapter Advisor or Regional Councilor by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 13, 2012. The essay must also be e-mailed as an MS Word document attachment to your Chapter Advisor/Regional Councilor by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 13, 2012.

NSSLHA Chapter Advisor/Regional Councilor Deadline: The NSSLHA Chapter Advisor/Regional Councilor must submit the completed and signed application form(s) and essay(s) to ASHA by mail postmarked by midnight on Friday, April 20, 2012. The essay(s) must also be e-mailed as an MS Word document attachment to ethics@asha.org no later than midnight on Friday, April 20, 2012.

Authors of winning essays and their Chapter Advisors/Regional Councilors will be notified in early June 2012.

Contact ASHA's Ethics Team at ethics@asha.org if you need additional information. 

Call for Nominations: International Association for Dental Research Colgate Oral Health Research Award

Nomination Deadline: April 15, 2012

The Oral Health Research Group of the IADR is inviting nominations for a group-sponsored award in oral health research. The purpose of the award is to recognize a body of meritorious research by a member of the IADR Oral Health Research Group, with preference given to a Dental Hygienist.

Eligibility:

1. Nominee must be a member of the IADR Oral Health Research Group and, if a Dental Hygienist, a graduate of an accredited dental hygiene program.
2. Nominations must include a Curriculum Vitae that provides supporting evidence that the nominee has conducted original research.
3. A letter of nomination should highlight the major reasons and body of research for which the individual is being nominated. Work considered for this award should have resulted in publications in scientific, peer-reviewed journals.

Research Topic:
Submissions must represent original research in the area of oral health. This includes a broad array of basic, clinical and applied studies related to: strategies for the prevention of oral disease and promotion of wellness; outcomes of primary and secondary preventive care; interdisciplinary approaches to integrating oral health into general health; clinical efficacy of professional and personal oral hygiene measures; methods to improve health outcomes of compromised patients; the dental hygiene process of care; self-care strategies; disease-prevention/health promotion focused curricular models; science transfer methods; ethics and quality assurance; alternative patterns for practice; clinical decision-making; and issues related to the conduct of research.

Award:
A Certificate of Recognition and one cash award in the amount of $2,000 will be made. This award is intended to provide travel and other support related to attending the IADR annual meeting and participating in the Oral Health Research Group activities. Information about the award winner will be made available to dental hygiene and other dental publications.

Selection:
A committee with an appointed chair or co-chairs, the President and Immediate Past-president of the Group will select the winner. A representative of Colgate-Palmolive Company will review eligibility qualifications with the committee. The award recipient will be formally announced during the business meeting of the Oral Health Research Group at the 2012 90th General Session & Exhibition of the IADR and honored during the reception that follows. Researchers who are currently under contract with Colgate-Palmolive are not eligible to participate. The committee may elect not to present an award if there is not an appropriate nominee.

Sponsorship:
The Award is sponsored by a generous donation from the Colgate-Palmolive Company.

Nomination Deadline:

Nominations must be received by April 15, 2012.

Submit nominations electronically to Award Chair.
Frances Doherty Genco, Award Chair
Email: fgenco@gmail.com