The 2013 FLASHA ANNUAL CONVENTION is HERE! On-Site and single day registration is still an option. Join your fellow FLASHA members at the Marco Island Marriott Report and Spa on Marco Island, Florida this week, May 23-26. 

• President: Celia Santini
  Immediate Past President: Rachel Williams
  President-Elect: Valerie Herskowitz
  VP for Convention: Lisa Garrett
  VP for Membership Services: Janet Line
  VP for Professional Practices in Audiology: Robert Fifer
  VP for Continuing Education: Carolyn Beaubrun
  VP for Educational Services: Laura Rogers
  VP for Professional Practices in Speech: Tim Kowalski
  VP for Communications: Shannon Hall-Mills
  VP for Governmental Education: Lisa Rock
  
  We are here to serve our members. If you would like to contact a specific board member, please click this link:
  http://flasha.org/executiveBoard.asp
   

• General Licensing and Online Renewal Questions:
  Email:
  MedicalQualityAssurance@doh.state.fl.us
  
  Telephone:
  (850) 488-0595
  
  Mailing Address:
  4052 Bald Cypress Way
  Tallahassee, Florida 32399
   

  To locate contact information (e.g., phone numbers, office locations, emails) for your respective legislators:
  Go to www.flsenate.gov/senators
  or
  Go to www.myfloridahouse.gov/sections/representatives/representatives.aspx

  
   

• Be a part of the FLASHA Experience. Join a committee. We currently have availability on the following committees:
  Ethical Practice, Communications, Public School, Early Intervention, Historian, Multicultural, Student Services, Reinbursement, Sponsorship and Grants, and Mentor Committee. If you are interested in joining a committee, please email, Janet Line at jline@flasha.org.

• In reference to our legislative activities, FLASHA received a $1,000 stipend awarded by ASHA to develop or further student participation in legislative activities. Through this grant from ASHA, FLASHA sponsored a statewide Student Advocacy Day in January, 2013.

• Check out the new Member Benefit-Discounts for products with SuperDuper! Click on this link to see how it works.http://flasha.org/mbSuperDuper.asp

• Did you know you can reduce your membership dues by referring your colleagues? For each new member referred, your dues will be reduced by 10% or $15.00; refer five members and your next dues billing will be $75.00 or ½ the regular dues payment!
   
• *Effective July 1, 2011 the ASHA CE Registry has a new eligibility requirement:

Individuals must meet at least one of the following conditions in order to be eligible to earn ASHA CEUs:
• ASHA Member (includes Life member and International affiliates)
• ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) Holder
• Licensed by a state or provincial regulatory agency to practice speech-language pathology (SLP) or audiology
• Credentialed by a state regulatory agency to practice SLP or audiology
• Credentialed by a national regulatory agency to practice SLP or audiology
• Engaged in a Clinical Fellowship under the supervision of an individual with their ASHA CCC
• Currently enrolled in a masters or doctoral program in SLP or audiology