TSHA Call for 2025 Volunteers
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1.
Your Preferred Name
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2.
Email Address
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Employer/Institution
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City of Residence
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5.
What is your primary professional setting?
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Early Childhood Intervention
Home Health
Medical
Private Practice
Public School
Student
University
Other (please specify)
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6.
What clinical areas do you practice in? Check all that apply.
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Audiology and Aural Re/Habilitation
Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Cognition and Behavior Across the Lifespan
Language Across the Lifespan
Professional Issues
Speech and Voice
Swallowing and Feeding
Other (please specify)
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Please indicate your years of practice. If you are a student, please share what year you are in within your program.
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8.
Are you a current TSHA member?
Please note: membership is required for participation within TSHA committees.
(Required.)
Yes
No
Unsure
I am not a TSHA member currently, but would be willing to renew/join with TSHA membership.
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Approximately how many years have you been a TSHA member?
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Have you attended a previous TSHA or ASHA Convention?
Note: Attendance at a previous convention is not required for a volunteer role.
Yes
No
Other (please specify)
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Have you participated in the TSHA Leadership Academy (TLA) in the past?
Yes
No
Other (please specify)
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12.
Which of the following best describe you? Please select no more than 5.
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Active
Communicative
Compassionate
Competent
Competitive
Dependable
Determined
Easy going
Hands-on
Independent
Inspirational
Open-minded
Orderly
Organized
People-minded
Principled
Procedural
Problem solver
Risk Taker
Traditional
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13.
What type of volunteer opportunity are you seeking?
(Required.)
One-time event support (such as at convention)
Year-round committee participation and planning, up to 1-5 hours per month
Year-round committee participation and planning, up to 1-3 hours per week
Year-round sporadic assistance, as needed and available
Other (please specify)
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14.
Tell us more about your interest in volunteering with TSHA.
(Required.)
The following questions (15-21) indicate all of the available TSHA volunteer opportunities. You are not required to select one in each group. Please only select the volunteer opportunities of interest to you. We have divided the volunteer opportunities into sections, for ease of viewing. You may review TSHA's Committees at this page:
https://www.txsha.org/About/TSHA-Committees.
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Please select the volunteer group(s) you are interested in serving on with the President committees.
Honors and Awards Committee
Leadership Development Committee
Nominations and Elections Committee
Past Presidents Committee
Past VPs Committee
Publications Board
State Advocate for Reimbursement (STAR)
State Advocate for Medicare Policy (StAMP)
State Education Advocacy Leader
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Please select the volunteer group(s) you are interested in serving on within the VP of Advocacy committees.
Advocacy Communications
Capitol/Legislative Visits Committee
Special Interests Committee
TSHA Political Action Committee (PAC)
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Please select the volunteer group(s) you are interested in serving on within the VP of Audiology committees.
Audiology Issues Committee
Audiology Education Committee
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Please select the volunteer group(s) you are interested in serving on within the VP of Education & Scientific Affairs committees.
Please note: Volunteers in these roles may be selected later than other committees, and would be asked to support the Annual Convention, scheduled for May 1-3, 2025 in San Antonio, TX.
General Convention Volunteer Support (attendee support, spirit day support, etc...)
Community Integration and Development Committee
Scholarship/Volunteer Committee
Spirit Day Committee
Strand Chair
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Please select the volunteer group(s) you are interested in serving on within the VP of Member Engagement Committees.
Diversity Committee
Membership and National Speech-Language-Hearing Month Committee
Social Media Committee
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Please select the volunteer group(s) you are interested in serving on within the VP of Professional Services committees.
Business Management Committee
CLD Committee
Medical Speech Pathology Committee
Public School Committee
Public School Advisory/Joint TSHA-TCASE Committee
SLP Assistants/SLP Assistants’ Supervisors Committee
Telepractice Committee
University Issues
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Please select the volunteer group(s) you are interested in serving on within the VP of Research and Development committees.
Assistive Technology Committee
Continuing Education Approval Committee
Continuation of Guidelines Committee
Professional Development Committee
Webinar Committee
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Are you interested in a leadership (Chair/Co-Chair) position within any of the committees you've selected?
Unsure
No
I am already in a leadership position and would like to continue.
Yes (please specify the committee(s))
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Please list your previous volunteer and/or professional experience with TSHA or other organizations that may be relevant to this volunteer opportunity.