Welcome to the South Carolina Speech Language Hearing Association!

SCSHA is a professional and scholarly organization for speech-language pathologists and audiologists.  Our goal is to meet the needs of our members and the individuals they serve by promoting and advocating of the highest quality services and professional standards, providing opportunities for professional growth and the exchange of knowledge, and educating the public about communication disorders and the professions of speech-language pathology and audiology. 

 

Why Should You Be a SCSHA Member?

You may be asking, "Why should I join/rejoin SCSHA this year?" Below are just of the few ways SCSHA has helped the profession in the past year. Check out the highlights in pink.

1.  Members-Only Website Section: Members only sections include job postings, newsletters, resources, and a new Member Benefit site. New for 2024 Members: We are excited to announce our new partnership with TicketsatWork! Now you’ll have access to exclusive savings on theme parks, hotels, concerts, movie tickets, & more. More information coming soon!

2. Advocating for Change:We advocate on behalf of our members in private practice, schools, early intervention, and medical settings and consistently work toward improvements in reimbursement and removing barriers to accessing care.  Our SCSHA leadership meets with policy makers at the highest level to promote legislative and policy change for the good of patients served by SC SLPs and Audiologists, with the help of a lobbyist. Want to know what happened in 2023? Find out here.

3. Lots of CE Opportunities: You will find a list of association events on our website, I hope that you will go ahead and mark your calendar now, so that you don’t miss anything.  Thanks again for your membership investment with SCSHA again this year.  In 2023, we offered 23 CE hours (2.3 ASHA hrs) including Ethics and Supervisory hours. In 2024, we will also be offering the required DEIA hours at our convention.

4. Variety of opportunities to stay involved, allow your voice to be heard, and network: SCSHA offers multiple committees and leadership development programs for members to stay involved, provide input, and gain valuable skills. Click the link below to learn more about our different committees.  We appreciate and value our members, and this is the perfect way to get your voice heard and involved!  View our list of committees here. All of our committees were hard at work last year with 85+ committee members serving on 6 active committees.

5.  InTouch Newsletters: Our quarterly In-Touch Newsletters contains valuable information such as legislative updates; continuing education and other workshops; convention previews and reminders; and professional updates, including current issues and practices on various topics. Viewership more than doubled in 2023!

6. Inclusive Holiday Calendar Available to Print: Our new VP of DEIA has started creating monthly holiday calendars that are available for download to all of our members!

7. Awards & Scholarships: Don’t forget as a member to take advantage of our awards & scholarships opportunities.  All nominations for our awards are due by December 31 as are our submissions for the Foundation Student Scholarship and Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Memorial Scholarship. 7 Awards and 3 scholarships were given 2023!

8. Social Media Information & Recognition:If you are on social media, please go on and like our Private Group (members only) & Public Pages on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts.  The hyperlinks are below.  We post regularly on all our social media platforms so please follow along with us.

9. Remember We Have Advertising Opportunities:Remember as a member, you have several ways to advertise with SCSHA if you haven’t done so in the past.  If you are interested in an Event/CE Posting, Banner Ads, E-Blast or have a Job Posting you would like for us to help advertise, you can click here for more information.  In 2023, we posted more than 10 jobs and had over 800 views on our Job Posting webpage!

Thank you for your support! Please contact  [email protected] if you have any questions

 

Six Reasons to be a part of SCSHA:

1. Continuing Education Opportunities
2. Valuable Publications
3. Networking Opportunities
4. Strong Advocacy
5. Access
6. Leadership Development Program

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