Bernadette Mayfield-Clarke, PhD, CCC-SLP, Becomes 2025 President of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
January 2, 2025
(Rockville, MD) Bernadette Mayfield-Clarke, PhD, CCC-SLP, took office this month as the 2025 president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
“At a very special time for ASHA—2025 is its Centennial—I am very grateful and excited to serve as its president,” Dr. Mayfield-Clarke said.
“During this year, I plan to focus on transformative change impacting learning, work, and other areas key to ASHA members. It is critical to stay abreast of automation and technological advancements and use them in ways that include converting workplaces into communities that are collaborative, adaptive, and foster exchanges from diverse backgrounds and cultures.”
She added: “My mantra for 2025 is to highlight individuals, professionals, and programs in communication sciences and disorders that are taking bold, brave, different, and daring steps that are already impactful and will continue to be.”
Currently, Dr. Mayfield-Clarke provides clinical services and consulting through a private practice that specializes in speech-language pathology services that meet the needs of employees in government and corporations whose primary language is not English.
Dr. Mayfield-Clarke earned a PhD and a master’s degree in human communication sciences and disorders from Howard University in Washington, D.C. She earned a bachelor of science degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Dr. Mayfield-Clarke has held positions in the delivery of school-based, contractual, clinical, and health care services. At Nova Southeastern University in the College of Health Care Sciences, she served as a professor for two programs—the Master of Science program and the Doctor of Speech-Language Pathology program. She was a program director and associate dean for research and graduate studies in the College of Arts and Sciences—as well as in Speech Communication and Speech/Language Pathology and Audiology—at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (North Carolina A&T), an HBCU in Greensboro, North Carolina.
In addition, she has served as a peer reviewer for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act/American with Disabilities Act panel of the U.S Department of Education. She was also selected as a visiting scholar at the Council on International Educational Exchange in Salvador Bahia, Brazil.
About the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for 234,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists; speech-language pathologists; speech, language, and hearing scientists; audiology and speech-language pathology assistants; and students. Audiologists specialize in preventing and assessing hearing and balance disorders as well as providing audiologic treatment, including hearing aids. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) identify, assess, and treat speech, language, and swallowing disorders
