Speech-Language Professor Takes Home Highest Professional Award

December 10, 2012

Donna Geffner, Ph.D., Professor and Program Director in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has earned many accolades during her 42-year teaching career. The most recent of these was the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA) Honors of the Association Award, presented to her on November 16 at ASHA’s annual convention in Atlanta, GA.

ASHA’s highest achievement, the Honors of the Association Award, is reserved for members who have produced an outstanding body of work that has contributed to improving the quality of life of the hearing and/or speech impaired. “I am so thankful to receive this award,” said Dr. Geffner. “I appreciate being recognized by my profession.”  

Dr. Geffner was acknowledged by ASHA for her many contributions, including creating St. John’s University’s undergraduate and graduate Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology programs and launching the pioneering Speech and Hearing Center on the Queens, NY, campus.

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