| | | | Legislative Council update, November 2007 |  | |
| | | The Legislative Council of ASHA held its VERY LAST meeting at the ASHA
Convention in Boston on Saturday-Sunday, November 17-18, 2007. If you recall,
the Legislative Council passed a resolution to adopt a new governance structure
in March 2007 which will take effect in January 2008. This new structure will
feature a 16-member Board of Directors, and two 53-member advisory councils –
one for speech-language pathologists/speech scientists, and the other for
audiologists/hearing scientists. There will be one representative for each
advisory council from each state, international, and NSSLHA. All future
meetings of the Advisory Councils will be held sometime in the spring, but
typically in late March-early April, at the ASHA National Office. Any
additional meetings needed will be scheduled to occur on Committee-Board day at
the ASHA Convention (usually on Wednesday, just prior to the Convention).
At our last LC meeting, the LC as a whole passed the following
resolutions:
LC 9-2007 Approve the 2008 budget of ASHA
LC
10-2007 Approve the guidelines document Structure and Function of an
Interdisciplinary Team for Persons with Acquired Brain Injury
We also
heard update reports on the status of our new national office building, and on
the strategic pathways for the association.
Elections were held for the
following committees, and advisory council positions:
Financial Planning
Board - Judy LeDuc, Illinois
Government Relations & Public Policy Board -
Linda Jacobs-Condit, District of Columbia
Honors - Fred Britten,
Kansas
Chair, Audiology Advisory Council - George Purvis, Kentucky
Vice-Chair, Audiology Advisory Council - Joe Montano, New York
Mary
Hooper, New Mexico
Vice-Chair, Speech-Language Pathology Advisory Council -
Lisa O'Connor, California
AND, speaking of elections… ALL Board of Director positions and ALL Advisory
Council positions are open for nominations and elections. IF you have any
interest or know someone who does, please go to the nominations/elections
section of the ASHA website (
www.asha.org/about/leadership~projects/election.) and place your/their names
in the hat!!!
If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact
myself or Maia Magder. Our e-mails are
, and
. We hope to hear from you.
Respectfully submitted,
Linda Jacobs-Condit, and Maia Lynn Magder, Legislative Councilors, District
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| | | LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL -
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- Linda Jacobs-Condir
Linda Jacobs-Condit, Au.D., CCC-A, has been an Audiologist and Clinical
Supervisor at the George Washington University Dept. of Speech & Hearing
Sciences/Speech & Hearing Center for the past 20 years. She currently is
Clinical Supervisor of the Audiology Clinical Diagnostic track, the Aural
Rehabilitation track, and for Spring 2008 is teaching Anatomy/Physiology of the
Ear. Over the years, she has served DCSHA as Program Chair, President, and
Legislative Councilor (1991-present). Dr. Jacobs-Condit will serve on the ASHA
Audiology Advisory Council for 2008, and is a member of the ASHA GRPP
(Governmental Review Public Policy Board) for 2008-2010. She earned her AuD
from University of Florida in 2001, studying through its distance learning
program while still working full-time and raising her family. Prior degrees are
M.S. in Audiology from Tulane University and B.A. in Speech-Language Pathology
from Newcomb College. - Maia L. Magder, National Institutes of Health.
Maia L. Magder, M.S. CCC-SLP, completed her graduate degree at Emerson College in Boston and has clinical and research interests in adult neurogenic aquired communications disorders. Currently, she conducts clinical research at the National Institutes of Health, Rehabilitation Medicine Department. Her current work includes an investigation of the natural history of degenerative disease related to dysphagia, as well as treating patients with working memory disorders. She also provides clincial acute care services to Georgetown University Hospital, and leads a social communication group for children with autism spectrum disorders via a private practice in Bethesda. Ms. Magder has also worked on the stroke and head injury team at Philadelphia's Moss Rehabilitation Hospital. She is excited to be part of the Legislative Council, and looks forward to serving her constituents! Contact her via email.
Role:
The Legislative Councilors are part of the Committee on Professional Affairs which incorporates the legislative/government activities and interprofessional activities.- elected by ASHA members and serve a two year term
- represents the District of Columbia Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the ASHA members in the District of Columbia
- receives and integrates information received from constituents of the District of Columbia.
- votes at the spring and fall face-to-face meetings of the Legislative Council
- voices constituents’ concerns regarding ASHA’s focused initiatives or an issue specifically related to their mode of service delivery
- keeps well informed about association and professional matters
- communicates regularly with the ASHA members in the District of Columbia
- provides assistance to ASHA members in the District of Columbia who want to submit resolutions to further the goals and objectives of ASHA
- serves as a nexus between constituents and the state organization
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