Acceptance Speech

Van Wyk Award acceptance speech.

The Van Wyk Prize is the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (LPWES)’s most prestigious award in recognition of outstanding career achievement by a member in the field of pediatric endocrinology. This award, established in honor of Judson J. Van Wyk, M.D., stands in tribute to an outstanding leader who has displayed a career of scientific excellence, leadership and dedication to the heal...

Acceptance of a speech interface for biomedical data collection

Speech interfaces have the potential to address the data entry bottleneck of many applications is the field of medical informatics. An experimental study evaluated the effect of perceptual structure on a multimodal speech interface for the collection of histopathology data. A perceptually structured multimodal interface, using speech and direct manipulation, was shown to increase speed and accu...

2008 AAOMPT John McM. Mennell Service Award Acceptance Speech.

Wallenberg Prize acceptance speech. The future of biology: reason for concern?

Speech pathologists' perspectives on transitioning to telepractice: What factors promote acceptance?

Little is understood about factors that influence speech-language pathologists' (SLPs') acceptance of telepractice. The aim of this study was to investigate SLPs' perceptions and experiences of transitioning to a school-based telepractice service to identify factors that contributed to positive clinician attitudes. In-depth interviews were conducted with 15 SLPs who recently commenced providing...