WCU National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association

Happy ASHA Virtual Advocacy Day! Here is the link to participate: https://takeaction.asha.org/asha/VAD

Once here, you can read about the five different issues and click “Students: Contact your members of Congress!” under the issue(s) of your choice. Next, you fill out your information so it knows who to send your letter to depending on your area. After that, it presents you with a pre-filled out letter with details about the topic you picked, and you fill in your signature and submit! It lets you know who your letter was sent to. Please send a screenshot of either the “thank you” page you get after submitting the letter or your email confirmation to Gabby ([email protected]). Thank you for participating and making your voice heard!

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Art with a Heart is TONIGHT from 6-9 pm in the Sykes Ballrooms! The event will include a silent auction of amazing artwork, opportunities to make your own art, food, music, raffle baskets and so much more! We hope to see you all there!

Happy National NSSLHA Student Advocacy Day! This is a wonderful opportunity to let our voices be heard and advocating for the audiology and speech-language pathology professions. You will have the opportunity to complete this by visiting our table at the CHS Affinity Event tonight (5-7 pm in the Stuzebecker Gym). If you have not already completed this at our Grad Panal and cannot come to the Affinity Event, follow the steps below:

1. Go to the Student Advocates section of ASHA's website: https://takeaction.asha.org/asha/StudentIssues?0&utm_source=asha&utm_medium=email&utm_content=102219&utm_campaign=nsslha

2. Review the issues currently impacting students and early career professionals

3. Click "Students: Contact your members of Congress" about the issue(s) that interests you most.

4. Fill in your info—the system automatically identifies your members of Congress.

5. Add a personal story or message in the pre-populated letter.

6. Click "submit," and you're done!

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A reminder that we have a NSSLHA meeting tonight at 8 pm in Sykes 252! We will be making artwork to be donated for our Art with a Heart event! We hope to see you all there!

A reminder that our second meeting of the semester is TONIGHT at 8pm in Sykes 252! Professor Reynolds will be presenting on working in the medical setting as a SLP! We will also be going over volunteer and fundraising opportunities and giving out punchcard punches. If you were not at the first meeting, come tonight to receive your punchcard. We will have several raffles with the punchcards at the end of the semester! We hope to see you all there!

A reminder that our first NSSLHA meeting is TONIGHT at 8pm in Sykes 252! We will go over events, fundraisers, volunteer opportunities and introduce a new punch card meeting incentive. We hope to see you all there!

NSSLHA had an awesome time sharing information to promote healthy vocal hygiene and hearing loss awareness at Exercise is Medicine Day. We offered free hearing screenings and information about WCU’s on-campus speech and hearing clinic.

Come out to the first ever Communication Station where we will be spreading awareness for the CSD major and field! There will be food, free prizes, free Raffle Basket tickets, and more so stop by from 5-8pm in the Sykes Ballrooms!

Don’t forget to support NSSLHA tonight in our first dine&donate of the semester!! Show this flyer to your cashier from 4-8pm and NSSLHA benefits!