The PSHA Executive Board welcomes you to another year.

Over the past three years, I have had the opportunity to get to know many PSHA members through my service on the ASHA Legislative Council.  I am continually impressed with the talented individuals across our state.  I am looking forward to working with each of you in a new capacity, as President of PSHA. 

The coming year will bring many challenges.  Those of us on the Executive Board will do our best to meet those challenges, but we will also need your help.  As clinicians, we are used to writing objectives and having benchmarks.  They help guide our therapy and ensure that our patients are making progress.  I would like to take this opportunity to share my objectives for the coming year:

·        Develop recruitment materials for high school students to attract new people to audiology and speech-language pathology.

·        Continue to work with our Vice President of Governmental Affairs, Char Molrine, and collaborate with other organizations on a new licensure act for PA.

·        Establish an Advocacy Network of professionals across the state so we can respond in a timely fashion to reimbursement and public policy issues that impact our professions.

·        Work with the PSHA Committees to develop information handouts on a variety of disorders and issues related to professionals in PA.

·        Work with past presidents of PSHA and future leaders of the Association to develop a long-term strategic plan that will ensure PSHA’s success in the future.

·        Continue to build a network of student members of PSHA to ensure that future leaders are an integral part of the Association.

·        Identify training mechanisms and consultation systems for SLPs working with low-incidence disorders.

·        Increase PSHA membership. The more members we have, the more we can accomplish.

·        Continue to develop the PSHA Keystater and other resources for PSHA members.

These are some examples of the things I hope we can accomplish together over the next year.  If any of you have other suggestions, please feel free to share them with me.

In closing, I would ask you all to join me, and the Executive Board, in working toward the above objectives.  Choose one of the objectives, or pick a new one, and identify ways you can help achieve it.  With everyone working together, there is no doubt we can make great things happen!

Thank you,

Craig Coleman
PSHA President
craig.coleman@chp.edu