University of Hawaii Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

03/17/2020

An important message from HSHA President Eva Koenig and President-Elect Kristina Fuentes:

Due to concerns regarding COVID-19, the HSHA Board of Directors unanimously voted to cancel our 43rd Annual HSHA Convention. We value your commitment to learning and are working with our speakers to host them in Hawaii at a later date.

We are also rescheduling our Annual Membership Meeting and Board of Directors Election for a yet to be determined date in early May. We are considering an online format so that we can hold the meeting and elect the new board members without the associated risks of gathering in person. Membership participation in this meeting and election is crucial to our state organization to continue to engage and promote excellence among our speech-language pathologists and audiologists. Please keep alert for an upcoming email regarding the rescheduled Membership Meeting and election.

We are very excited by the amount of interest in this year’s Convention, as we were excited about the attendance at our dysphagia course earlier this winter. We intend to keep the momentum going by offering additional continuing education opportunities this year in lieu of our Convention. We are considering hosting webinars or other virtual courses and will be meeting to discuss and plan such opportunities. If you have ideas or interest in volunteering, please consider joining a committee, or share your ideas with us at [email protected].

HSHA will ensure that all registrants receive a full refund for their convention registration fees. If you mailed a check or PO please confirm your address in an email to [email protected] with "Refund Address" in the subject line. If you registered online, we will refund your PayPal payment.

Thank you everyone for your support and understanding. We look forward to the time when we can convene in person. In the meantime, stay safe, stay healthy and consider physical isolation rather than socially isolating- thankfully, we have technology and telephones to stay socially connected during this unprecedented time.
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HSHA's mission: Advancing and engaging our members across the islands to enhance the communication and quality of life for all.

HSHA's vision: Promoting excellence in speech-language pathology and audiology through professional development, advocacy, and leadership to provide education and quality services that embrace the diversity of the people we serve.

02/19/2020

Congratulations to our very own Verna Chinen! 🎉

It's Award Season! The ASHFoundation is accepting clinical achievement award nominations to honor professionals for their contributions to audiology and/or speech-language pathology. Don't miss this chance to recognize a clinician for outstanding achievements. Nominations are due April 3!
https://on.asha.org/2vNpryA

02/11/2020

The Hawaii Speech-Language Hearing Association is honored to host Dr. R.A. McWilliam and Cami Stevenson for our April 2-3rd Convention, who will be presenting The Routines-Based Model for Supporting Social Relationships.

Register online now at: www.hsha.org

Dr. Robin McWilliam is a professor of early childhood special education at The University of Alabama, where he founded and directs the Evidence-based International Early InterventionOffice (EIEIO), in the Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities. With colleagues, he created the Routines-Based Model for Early Intervention (Birth to Five; RBM), a comprehensive system for supporting caregivers of young children with disabilities.

Cami Stevenson is an administrator in the Multnomah Early Childhood Program, an early intervention program for children birth to five years of age, in Portland, Oregon. She is the associate director of the Routines-Based Model (RBM) Enterprise, which runs various training, material-development, and consultation activities to promote children’s engagement and family empowerment. She works in partnership with Robin McWilliam to advance the RBM, with specific responsibility for logistics and management of the many materials associated with the model.

Our mission? Promoting excellence in speech-language pathology and audiology through professional development, advocacy, and leadership to provide education and quality services that embrace the diversity of those we serve.

01/26/2020

Assistant Professor and Audiologist Lisa Taniguchi works with a child in the UH Speech and Hearing Clinic in Kakaako. Funded by a former UH speech pathologist w

12/12/2019

Congratulations to our second years for completing their final research presentations! “We made it!”

12/07/2019

12/07/2019

Part of our program’s outreach to volunteer in the community! Easter Seals provides early intervention all over the state across islands.

09/18/2019

Registration for our CEU Event: “The Deglutition Project: Physiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment” featuring Dr. Ianessa Humbert is now open!

Click here to register: https://hsha.wildapricot.org/event-3479926

09/18/2019

Thank you to Kacie Gokan for these wonderful pictures of our NEW class of 2021, class of 2020, and faculty!

08/03/2019

Juliette presenting a lei to our NSSLHA president Marie. Juliette made the lei 15 years ago, and gave it in appreciation for all of Marie’s help in creating a memoir for her husband