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 The Executive Board of the Maryland Speech-Language-Hearing Association presents awards to worthy individuals each year at the Annual Convention. Nominations are accepted from current MSHA members each year in January, and the Executive Board votes and presents the awards at the convention.
MSHA considers the following awards each year:
MSHA Fellow
This award is bestowed upon a MSHA member in recognition of outstanding professional achievement. This person shall have a record of achievement in one or more of the following: outstanding service to the Association, distinguished educational, professional, or administrative activity, or original contribution to the advancement of knowledge.
MSHA Honors
The Honors Award is given to an individual who is a resident of Maryland and who has shown a commitment to assisting either directly or indirectly in the habilitation and rehabilitation of the communicatively handicapped. The recipient may be an individual regardless of field or vocation, who has exemplified activities which affect the field of communicative disorders and are worthy of notable recognition.
Outstanding Contribution to the Field
The award is bestowed on an individual in recognition of outstanding professional contribution to the fields of either speech or audiology.
Service Award
The Service Award recognizes an individual who has been of exemplary service to MSHA.
Jo Bowling Award
This award is given in recognition of achievement of a Speech-Language Pathologist in a school setting in honor of Jo Bowling. Jo Bowling was a speech-language pathologist who had a distinguished career as a clinician in the public schools, working in the schools in Southern Maryland. She was instrumental in developing programs in that area of the state and worked tirelessly to promote the work and efforts of the school-based speech-language pathologists. The award was established after her death by MSHA and her husband Lloyd Bowling, who was an audiologist. In the 1970s and early 80s, MSHA had a school caucus or school affairs committee and Jo was instrumental in the work of that committee.
William G. Hardy Award
This award given in recognition of achievement of an individual who works in a clinical or hospital setting to recognize clinical excellence and contributions to the profession. The award was named for Dr. William G. Hardy, Ph.D. — a professor at Johns Hopkins Medical Institution — to honor his career as a clinician, researcher, and teacher. Hardy was a professor of Otolaryngology and the Director of the Speech and Hearing Rehabilitation program at Hopkins. Along with Hopkins physicians, he developed an interdisciplinary approach to the treatment of hearing and speech disabilities. Williams' wife Miriam Hardy, SLP, and her colleague Harriett Haskins, SLP, were instrumental in creating the award through MSHA. Hardy was one of the first presidents of MSHA as well as an ASHA President.
Marie Noplock Award
The Marie Noplock Award recognizes an individual who has exhibited outstanding service in the legislative area in Maryland with regard to speech-language pathology or audiology.
Caregiver Award
The MSHA Caregiver Award recognizes an individual(s) who has demonstrated outstanding advocacy and care giving to a communicatively impaired individual in the state of Maryland.
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