Spotlight on SIG 6, Hearing and Hearing Disorders: Research and Diagnostics

Members of SIG 6 work to provide a forum for collaboration between researchers and clinicians to translate research into evidence-based practice related to hearing and balance.  Read on for Keith Wolgemuth’s first-hand experience. When did you join your ASHA special interest group (SIG)—and what made you want to join? I joined SIG 6 in early 2016, initially to complete a one-year term left by a colleague who needed to fulfill other professional commitments. Within three months, I was in a position to fill a vacancy as the SIG 6 associate coordinator, by virtue of being the only person on the committee at that time who did not have a job, so to speak! I agreed to stay on after completing my colleague’s term because I wanted to learn more about how ASHA operates, and to give back to the profession and to ASHA in return for what the national organization has done for us over the years. How has your involvement with the SIG helped you in your career? Working for the SIG has kept me up to date with challenges in the field and how ASHA deals with these challenges by lobbying on Capitol Hill. It’s also given me the opportunity to go to Capitol Hill myself to meet with congressional staff to represent ASHA and the professions, and this has made my career more valuable, to me, as a result. We have to make our voices heard regarding the fields of audiology and speech-language pathology, and ASHA has done a good job overall, over the years. How do you carve out time to vol...
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