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 Awardee Works to Develop Interventions for Adolescents Suffering from Brain Injury
Angela Ciccia, PhD, Assistant Professor and Clinical Program Director at Case Western Reserve University's Department of Communication Sciences, received an ASHFoundation New Investigators Research Grant in 2003 to support her research in the area of social cognition and brain function. She created 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 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 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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