To Our Esteemed WSHA Members & Friends:
This is to advise you that the Washington Speech & Hearing Association Board of Directors are presenting a special ballot to the members next month via MemberClicks.
On the ballot, would be a request for your consideration of an official name change of the association from the “Washington Speech & Hearing Association” to the “Washington Speech-Language-Hearing Association (WSLHA).”
This change would bring several benefits:
(1) bring our official name consistent with our website address www.wslha.org (therefore easier to remember the address),
(2) the association name would also be consistent with our national association the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), and (3) recognize that we also treat language disorders in our profession.
At this time, there is no known detriment to changing the name of the association. Since most of our transactions and correspondence are done online and via email, there would not be a huge cost for printing since we could transition the new name and logo as supplies run out.
We would continue to be able to do business as “WSHA,” but all our official documents would be under the new proposed name (Washington Speech-Language-Hearing Association).
The board is opening a “comment” or “feedback” period from January 25th to February 25th for all members and the general public.
Please send any comments, thoughts, feedback to my email address below or send it to the WSHA office and request that it be forwarded to me anonymously.
In addition, during this period, we are accepting submissions of a new association logo from the members. This, of course, would not become official until the members and ASHA have approved the name change. Depending on the number of responses, the logo request period may be lengthened. The top three logos selected by board and committee chairs will be presented for member consideration. A small prize will be awarded to the person submitting the final logo selected.
Thank you in advance for your time and careful consideration!
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Martinez Braun
WSHA Board, Member At Large
Please email me at embraunwslha@gmail.com or office@wslha.org (for anonymous comments)
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