The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation) announced today its Executive Director for the past 26 years, Nancy J. Minghetti, will retire in September.
The ASHFoundation’s 75th anniversary celebrations culminated in a fun 75 Days of Giving-Back Campaign. Thanks to generous donors, more than $15,000 was raised to support ASHFoundation funding programs and many of the donors won a $100 gift card as a thank you for participating. See our list of lucky winners.
ASHFoundation awards record-breaking $867,000 to 77 innovators.
The ASHFoundation’s 75th Anniversary Celebration is culminating with a giving-back tribute to our donors, and you won’t want to miss it.
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation proudly marks its Diamond Anniversary with a celebration of its 2021 Annual Awards announcements.
Past award recipients and donors reflect on 75 years of achievement and corporate sponsors step forward with special anniversary support.
ASHFoundation announces a total of $639,000 in awards to 76 recipients.
More than 1,200 ASHFoundation donors and friends joined the fun to help raise money for scholarships and research grants at the August 29, 2020 Virtual 5k Walk/Run.
Read Patty’s inspiring message about the ASHFoundation’s 2020 kick-off.
Spotlight on ASHFoundation donor, Gregory L. Lof—learn why he is so committed to the ASHFoundation.
Nancy shares her well wishes and an inspiring message about the ASHFoundation’s readiness during challenging times.
The ASHFoundation recently received a significant gift from Dr. Lois and Robert Bloom to fully endow the Bloom Fund, which the Blooms established to strengthen support in the area of child language research.
The ASHFoundation welcomes 3 new trustees.
The ASHFoundation awards a record-breaking total of $762,000 to 85 recipients at the annual Founders Breakfast during the ASHA Convention in Orlando. Meet the newest awardees.
Jon Venezia's ASHFoundation New Investigators Research Grant led to additional funding from the Veterans Administration to study auditory processing deficits experienced by military veterans.
Dreams and Innovation was the focus of the ASHFoundation's activities during ASHA's 2019 Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida.
ASHFoundation Executive Director, Nancy Minghetti, talks about why she remains enthusiastic about the ASHFoundation for more than 30 years, and why helping others gives us a sense of purpose.
ASHFoundation recipient Ian Mertes' article to be published.
Jones & Bartlett Learning recently joined the ASHFoundation's corporate donor community.
Tiffany Johnson describes her research path and how her early ASHFoundation support contributed to her research success and a career in higher education.
Sriram Boothalingam explains how ASHFoundation funding kick-started his current research program.
Kerry Ebert, a two-time ASHFoundation recipient, describes how her funded ASHFoundation research grant launched this line of research for her.
The ASHFoundation Board of Trustees recently announces a name change for its planned giving program.
Soo-Eun Chang shares how ASHFoundation funding helped her pursue a new research direction and continues to support her long-term career goal.
Scholarship and grant awardee Teresa Gray describes how ASHFoundation funding helped her realize her dream.
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Three-time ASHFoundation recipient, Elizabeth Walker, discusses her work to understand variations in access to sound in children who use hearing aids or cochlear implants, and how this affects their cognitive and linguistic development.
Kathryn Connaghan, 2013 New Century Scholars Research Grant recipient, is studying how it’s not just what you say but how you say it that contributes to a speaker’s communication success.
New Investigators Research Grant recipient, Natalie Douglas, investigates how to improve the lives of people with dementia living in long-term care communities by coaching staff to improve communication with these residents.
Ianessa Humbert is working to bridge the dysphagia education gap. She believes that her ASHFoundation grant made this work possible, since it would have been difficult to find any other funding agency to support a study that focused on both speech-language pathologists and swallowing.
Karen Chenausky is trying to make sense of the complex and understudied area of speech acquisition in minimally verbal children with autism. She hopes to identify how to best teach these children to move from the single-word stage to word combinations, or even sentences.
Read as Radziwon reflects on how her ASHFoundation funding is advancing her hope to test treatments to restore or preserve auditory function.
We are deeply saddened by the passing of former ASHFoundation Board member and longtime, loyal friend and generous donor who died on January 23, 2018, in North Potomac, Maryland.
ASHFoundation recipient Dr. Amanda Van Horne discusses her work to find ways to more effectively help children learn and use language.
Dr. Antje Mefferd discusses how her 2012 New Investigators Research Grant allowed her to collect her first pilot data on speakers with dysarthria who also have Parkinson's disease (PD). She shares how this grant led to her current study of the role of the jaw in speech intelligibility loss and recovery in people with ALS and PD.
Research grant recipient Eva van Leer discusses her ASHFoundation-funded work to improve patient outcomes in voice therapy.