American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
Supporting innovation in communication sciences

2008 Funding Competitions are Now Closed!
Our 2008 awards will be announced in November at the annual Founders Breakfast in Chicago, Illinois. Become a Founder level donor and receive an invitation to the breakfast.

ASHFoundation Funded Researcher Works to Support Clinical Practice Through Discovery of New Clinical Interventions
Angela Ciccia, PhD, Assistant Professor and Clinical Program Director at Case Western Reserve University's Department of Communication Sciences, believes that her role as a researcher is to provide a support system for clinical practice through her critical research. Dr. Ciccia received an ASHFoundation New Investigators Research Grant in 2003 to support her research in the area of social cognition and brain function. With this funding, she was able to create a brain imaging paradigm that would mirror what would actually happen in intervention—something that didn't exist at the time. In 2005, she was awarded the ASHFoundation's New Century Scholars Research Grant, enabling her to conduct behavioral and neural network analysis of social information processing in older adolescents following severe traumatic brain injury. This support allowed her to take the paradigm she had created earlier on typically developing participants and make improvements. This early ASHFoundation funding allowed Dr. Ciccia to move to the next step, and she recently submitted a National Institutes of Health R03 application to study the contributions of working memory to social cognition in brain injury. 

Dr. Ciccia says that the power of ASHFoundation funding can not be overstated. "It says that your profession believes in what you are doing. And for someone who is a little uncertain moving into the academic world, a very competitive funding environment, it helps you to get started. The money is tangible, but the ASHFoundation's recognition is invaluable." Read more about Dr. Ciccia's work [PDF].

ASHFoundation Honors Our Newest "All Stars" at a Breakfast of Champions
During the 2007 ASHA Boston Convention, the latest ASHFoundation legends were unveiled at an energetic Breakfast of Champions on Friday, November 16^th. More than $193,000 was distributed though student scholarships, research grants, and clinical achievement awards. For more information, visit our latest News.

ASHFoundation Celebrates 60 Years of Giving
The ASHFoundation celebrates 60 years of supporting excellence and innovation in the field of communication sciences and disorders. Read more.

Help Us Spread Awareness
For a limited time, the Foundation is offering the Communicate for Life Bracelet to help spread awareness about the causes and treatments of hearing, speech, and language disorders. 

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