Welcome to the 73nd
Annual Meeting of the Corporation
Indiana Speech-Language-Hearing
Association
Our Agenda
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Call to Order
Approval of Minutes, 2009
Executive Council Reports
Unfinished Business
New Business
Announcements
Adjournment
Executive Director Report
Ann Ninness
CATEGORY
March 2009
April 2010
Active Members
889
773
Associate Members
12
15
Life Members
152
250
Student Members
50
25
Total Membership
1109
1063
Treasurer’s Report: Pegi Risinger
ISHA Finances
WELLS FARGO
April 2010
(Wachovia Securities)
MUTUAL FUND ACCT VALUE
$53,938.61
MUTUAL FUND CASH FUND
$2,662.14
Indiana Members Credit Union
Checking Account #1
$21,965.77
PAC Checking Account
$830.00
Checking Account #2
$26,023.26
Money Market #1
$42,268.62
Money Market #2
$10,214.94
National City Total
$78,506.82
National City Bank
Thank You Professional Development
Team Leaders
Team Leaders…
• Continuing Ed Team
– Mary Jo Germani
• Convention Team
– Suzanne Frye
• Conference Team
– Leader needed
• Grants/Scholarships/Research
– Ali Dillingham and Bonnie Hertzog
Thank You PD Team Members
• Continuing Ed Team:
– Julia Radamacher, Kim Kirk, Margo Courter-Kinzer, Susan
McGarvey-Toler
• Convention Team:
– Lydia Hittle-Local Arrangements
– Lori Carmichael Howell-Exhibits
– Pegi Risinger, Ann Bilodeau, Hala Elsisy, Julia Radamacher, Lyle
Loyd, Jennifer Freeman, Kitty Kubat, Kim Kirk, Anu Subramanian
• Conference Team:
– Deb Harman, Elizabeth Antonnen, Kristine Eiler, Kitty Kubat, Kim
Kirk, Anu Subramanian
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Grants/ Scholarships/Research Team
– Kristie Lofland, Paul Kreimer, Julia Radamacher, Kim Kirk
VP Professional Development Report
Dee Combs
Fall Conference…TBD for 2010
– Low attendance
– Low profit margin (if any)
– Exploring Alternatives
• 74th Annual Convention 2011
– Dates: March 31st, April 1st, April 2nd
– Location: Sheraton, Keystone at the Crossing
• Other ideas for Professional Development?
Join the Professional Development Team!
• Conferences
– Plans PD events other than Convention
• Convention
– Develops Convention Program
– Makes Local Arrangements
– Communicates with Exhibitors
• Continuing Ed
– Applies for Continuing Education Approval
– Communicates with ASHA and AAA
• Scholarships
– Reviews Scholarship Applications and selects recipients
VP Communications/Publications Report
Charone Lesher
Summary of Activities
• Directory Published
– Online Edition (updates ongoing)
– Hard Copy Edition
• Website
– Resources updated, re-located, expanded
– New! Quarterly EC Updates (October, January, April,
July) distributed via BLAST email and archived on ISHA
web site
– Considering Facebook, Twitter, ISHA Blog
– Need team members to help!!!!
Join the Communications and
Publications Team!
• Directory Team
– Reviews and Recommends Content
– Proofs Drafts
– Solicits Advertisement
• Communications Team
– Makes recommendation for website
• History Team
– Maintains ISHA history
• Professional Recognition Team
– Solicits input member awards
– Communicates with award recipients
Thank you Marketing Team Members!
Team Members:
– Julia Rademacher
– Dolly Gray
– Katie Book
– Cheryl Stillson
– Kathy Petrovic
– Marilyn Neff
Vice President of Marketing Report
Cindy Cobb
Summary of Activities
• ISHA Membership
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Strategies for recruitment
Strategies for retention
Increasing student membership
Planning for increase in Life Members (The time is now!)
• Public Service Announcements (PSAs)
– Stations North and South
• Resources for members
Join the Marketing Team!
• Public Information
– Develop tools that teach other professions,
legislators, and the public about what we do!
• Advertising
– Develop promotional materials that advertise ISHA
initiatives and events
• Sponsor Procurement Team
– Find sponsors for ISHA events, projects, awards,
grants, and convention/conference speakers
• Recruitment
– Develop tools and strategic actions that recruit ISHA
Members
Thank you Audiology Teams!
TEAM LEADERS
• Sherry Hodge-Legislative
• Sylvia Hoefer-Quality Management/PreProfessional
• Claudia Updike-Scope of Practice
TEAM MEMBERS
• Lisa Goerner
• Paul Kreimer
• Julie Bower
• Sandy Bratton
Christa Smith
Hala Elsisy
Jennifer Simpson
Shannon Van Hyfte
Vice President of Audiology Report
Deb Liebrich
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Summary of Activities
Secured speakers for Fall Conference
Advocated to keep SLPA Board separate from
Hearing Aid Dealer Committee
Developed plan for increasing audiologist
membership in ISHA
Developing plan for greater audiologist
participation in Convention program
planning
Join the Audiology Team!
• Pre Professional Issues
– Promoting Student Membership in ISHA
– Educating ISHA on the latest educational and training
issues in the field of audiology
• Scope of Practice Issues
– Monitor /Educate state licensure board activities
– Monitor/Educate “related” professions
• Quality Management Issues
– Determining public access to services (shortage?)
– Reimbursement of services
• Legislative Issues
– Monitoring bills and GA committee work
– Providing expert testimony
Thank You SLP Teams!
TEAM LEADERS
• Debbie Harman (Legislative Team)
• Bonnie Hertzog (Pre-Prof. Team)
• Naomi Horton (Quality Management)
TEAM MEMBERS
• Jennifer Freeman
• Mary Jo Germani
• Ann Bilodeau
• Jeanne McMillan
• Linda Sue Sickman
Vice President of Speech-Language Pathology
Report: Kathy Clifford
Summary of Activities
• Pre Professional Team
– University Summit, June 2010
– ASHA’s proposed “Clinical Service Continuum”
• Scope of Practice Team
– Emergency Permits for SLPs still exist
– IDOE reports 50 SLP Emergency Permits in 2008-09
– What does CCC mean?
• Quality Management Team
– First Steps DTCS
– Schools Personnel Grant Survey (73% participation rate)
• Legislative Team
– Following the licensure board merger issue
Join the Speech-Language Pathology Team!
• Pre Professional Issues
– Promoting Student Membership in ISHA
– Educating members on the latest education and training
issues in the field of Speech-Language Pathology
• Scope of Practice Issues
– Monitor state licensure board activities
– Educate others about our scope of practice
• Quality Management Issues
– Monitoring public access to services (shortage)
– Monitoring reimbursement issues
• Legislative Issues
– Monitoring bills and General Assembly committee work
– Providing expert testimony
President’s Report
• First Steps Task Force Update
– Studied the feasibility of Support Personnel under
Title 880 studied
– DT Education and Training studied
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Early Childhood Degree/Teaching License
K-6 Educator Degree/Teaching License
Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Disorder
Bachelor’s Degree in Music Therapy
– Use of the word “specialist” reconsidered
• Developmental Therapist: Focus Area
Communication
– Rewriting DT-C Personnel Guide description
– ISHA Convention meets “Core Training” requirement
President’s Report (continued)
• SLPs under REPA (Revisions for Educator Preparation &
Accountability)
– Effective July 31st 2010
– Option to use in-service credits and
professional development programs verified by
a building-level administrator for IDOE license
renewal.
– Only activities and courses “directly related to
student achievement” will count toward
renewal.
– You may continue to use a current IPLA
license to renew your school license!
President’s Report (continued)
• ISHA Personnel Grant Survey
– Collaborative project between ISHA, IU graduate
student Libby Buck, and IU Department Chair
Karen Forrest
– 73% responded!!
– Plans to study data are “in process”
– Dissemination plan will be developed by the SLP,
Marketing, Communications and Publications
Teams
President’s Report (continued)
• SLI/SLD Task Force: Effective Assessment
Processes under Article 7
– Task Force Goals
• Produce guidelines for assessment practices on a continuum
from those that minimally meet requirements under Article 7
to those that reflect “best practice”.
• Present case studies that demonstrate possibilities for
professional roles that result in valid and reliable assessments
for students suspected of a Language Impairment and Specific
Learning Disability
– Task Force Members
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Leah Nellis and Linda Sickman, Indiana State University
Jennifer Dezarn-Lynch, Wayne Township Schools
Pat Jones and Lynn Gosser, ICASE
Debbie Harman, ISHA
•Establishes Learning Communities
•The “Facebook” of Educators in Indiana
•Join the Speech-Language Educators
Community
•ISHA needs to make sure it works to
connect SLPs and well as teachers!
•Lesson sharing…endless possibilities!
Susan Rockafellow
• Susan Rockafellow ISHA representative for:
• SMAC (State Medicare Administrative
Contractor Network)
• STAR (State Based Reimbursement Network)
– Contact me at…
– srockafellow@hancockregional.org or
susanrockafellow@comcast.net
• phone contact- 317-468-4664
Legislative Update
Mark Scherer, ISHA Lobbyist
– Committee established to study licensure board
mergers
– Reporting to the Attorney General
Nominating Committee Chair
Tracy Quandt
2010 ISHA Ballot
Secretary:
Alicia Dillingham
Robyn Ford
Lydia Hyttle
Julia Rademacher
Rachel Ross-Kroemer
Treasurer:
Pegi Risinger
Mandy Thurston
President-Elect:
Ruth Ann Morrell
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Old Business
• New ISHA By-Laws passed!
• EC Completed a 2-year Strategic Plan
– Found at www.islha.org
– Focus on Education
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– Advocacy Focus
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New Business
1. EC recommends an amendment to the ByLaws establish a membership fee for Life
Members of $25.00 annually.
2. EC recommends an amendment to the ByLaws to allow for electronic balloting on all
matters of the association
3. EC recommends to extend current ISHA
President’s term until September 1, 2012.
Meeting Adjourned!
Awards are up next…Don’t go away!
ISHA Awards!!!
Please come down to accept yours!
Membership Recognition
50 year Members
– Jacqueline Fresh, June Giesler, Mary Ann
McDonald, M. D. Stanley, Anne Summers
25 year Members
– Nancy Bowes, Barbara Brown, Cheryl Camp,
Ann Densmore, Lygia Ford, Deborah Harman,
Sherry Hodge, Melanie Houk, Deborah
McManus, Kendrea Parker, Luann Peck, Susan
Scheidt, Carolyn Weliever, Laura Zachrich,
Cheryl Zielinski
Membership Recognition
20 year Members
– Elizabeth Anttonen, Deena Armstrong,
JoEllen DeCamp, Kandi Henriott, Cheryl
Hentz, Carol Hession, Virginia Higgins,
Tina Jenkins, Maria Mabe, Pamela
McCammon, Sharon Miller, Margaret
Powers, Amanda Solesky, Theresa
Steele, Susan Tracey, Marlene Vale, Jill
Williams, Roberta Wilson, Patricia Wong,
Kristen Zurbuch
Membership Recognition
10 year Members
– Beth Ahmad, Sharna Baumgart,
Michelle Brown, David Coffin, Roslyn Fine,
Tina Fure, Alissa Herbon, Wendy Pavicich,
Amy Riego, Anita Risdon, Rebecca Risser,
Khandera Roberts, Rachel Ross-Kroemer,
Sneha Shah, Catherine Smith, Janice
Tipping, Jill Walker
Outstanding Student Clinicians
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Patricia Ray
Suzanne Sizelove
Erika Steele
Ashley Marshall
Rachelle Reichert
Mallory Robb
Laura Bobinsky
Jennifer Karpicke
SLP, IU
AuD, IU
SLP, ISU
SLP, ISU
SLP, BSU
AuD, BSU
AuD, PU
SLP, PU
ISHA Foundation Scholarships
• Elizabeth Amos, Ball State
University
• Caitlin Younger, Indiana
University
• Katherine Reckelhoff, Indiana
State University
ISHA Certificate of Commendation
Congratulations to Mr. Rich Steininger
Mr. Steininger has been volunteering at St.
Paul Hermitage in Indianapolis for 8 years.
Each week, he takes time to come in and
gather various male residents, including
those on the health center, for a
"gentlemen's lunch". He is a gifted
communicator and provides a wonderful
opportunity for communication and
fellowship for these fortunate residentsmany of who have communication and
cognitive impairments.
ISHA’s Honors of the Association
Congratulations go to….
Ann Bilodeau!
Ann has served and continues to
serve ISHA in many ways…
– Convention Teams
– President-Elect
– President
– Past President
– Convention Program Committee
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Thank You!