2009 Student Ethics Essay Award
It's not too soon for NSSLHA chapter members, faculty in communication sciences and disorders academic programs, and NSSLHA chapter advisors and regional councilors to start preparing for the 2009 Student Ethics Essay Award (SEEA) competition.
This award is designed to provide opportunities for NSSLHA members who are undergraduate or graduate students in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) to think about ethical decision making as they prepare for careers in audiology, speech-language pathology, or speech, language, and hearing sciences. The goal of the SEEA is to create awareness of situations individuals may encounter that could pose ethical dilemmas and options for addressing these dilemmas.
The 2009 essay topic will be Principle of Ethics IV from ASHA'S Code of Ethics: "Individuals shall honor their responsibilities to the professions and their relationships with colleagues, students, and members of allied professions. Individuals shall uphold the dignity and autonomy of the professions, mantain harmonious interprofessional and intraprofessional relationships, and accept the professions' self-imposed standards." Students are encouraged to read all of the Rules of Ethics associated with Principle IV, as well as the entire Code of Ethics and other ethics resources.
Each NSSLHA chapter will be permitted to submit up to five essays for the 2009 SEEA competition. Submission dates and other details will be provided to NSSLHA Chapter Advisors and posted on the ASHA and NSSLHA Web sites in early 2009. In the meantime, program faculty may want to consider making the ethics essay a classroom assignment. Essays should be no more than 1,000 words in length, and must be submitted with the SEEA Application Form, which will be available on this Web site in early 2009. Please do not submit essays before the application form is published.
See Student Ethics Essay Award Recipients to see the list of previous SEEA winners and to read the winning essays.
Award Eligibility
Eligible candidates include NSSLHA members enrolled part time or full time during the academic year 2008-2009 in an undergraduate or graduate-level CSD program. Graduate students must be enrolled in a program currently accredited (or in Candidacy status) by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. (Note: Only NSSLHA chapters in good standing with the association are eligible to submit a member student's essay. NSSLHA chapters may recertify online with the national office.)
Contact ASHA's Ethics Team at ldaloisio@asha.org or ddenton@asha.org if you need additional information.