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Time
Thursday, September 18
8 - 5pm
Pre-Conference Workshop: Training for Board Members

Separate registration fee required

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 Friday, September 19
8 - 8:30amRegistration
8:30 - 8:45am

Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places: Welcome & Opening

  • Vickie Pullins, NCSB President
  • Katie Brice, NCSB President-Elect & Conference Chair
8:45 - 9:45am

Rising Tides: Growing Threats to Regulation - 1st Amendment & Telehealth (Keynote)

  • Charla Burill, JD, RD; Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
9:45 - 10:30am 

Navigating the Waters: Due Process from Complaint to Discipline

  • MaryJane Richardson, JD; Office of the District Attorney for Robeson, Hoke and Scotland Counties, North Carolina
10:30 - 10:45amBreak
10:45 - 11:15am 

Ships in the Harbor: Consumer View – Why Regulatory Boards are Important

  • Jason Dietrich, Educational Testing Service
11:15 - 12noon

Low Country Boil: Licensure Data

  • Gregg Thornton, Esq; Ohio Speech and Hearing Professionals Board
12 - 1pm Lunch and Corporate Business Meeting
1:15 - 2pm 

Gullah Geechee: Spread the Word – Intra-board Communicating

  • Tammy H. Brown, MA, CCC-A; Ohio Speech and Hearing Professionals Board
2 - 2:45pm

In the Marsh: ASLP-IC Compact Connect

  • Isabel Eliassen, Compact Connect & Council of State Governments
  • Stacy Griffin, Inspiring Apps
2:45 - 3pmBreak
3 - 4:30pm

Palmetto State of Mind: State Information Exchange

  • Amy Goldman, Facilitator

A state representative should come prepared to speak for 5 minutes on successes and challenges in their state.

4:30 - 5pm

Crescent Moon: Discussion of State Information Exchange - Political Changes & Impacts on Boards

  • Amy Goldman, Facilitator of small group breakouts
  
 Saturday, September 20
8:30 - 9:30am

Sweetgrass: Updates from ETS, ASHA, ADA, and AAA

  • Jason Dietrich, Educational Testing Service
  • Amanda Gallagher, CCC-SLP; American-Speech-Language Hearing Association
  • Stephanie Czuhajewski, CAE, MPH; Academy of Doctors of Audiology
  • Andrew Stafford, American Academy of Audiology
9:30 - 10am

Boiled Peanuts: Challenges to Board Deference - A Legal Update

  • Nahale Freeland Kalfas, Esq
10 - 10:15amPit Stop - Break
10:15 - 11am

Port Authority: Developing an Enforcement Framework

  • John Medlock, Esq; Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation
11 - 11:45am

Grits and Grace: Bridging Ethical Practice - Educating, Advocating, and Referring

  • Beth Findley & Jason Wigand, Co-Moderators for breakout groups
11:45 - 12noon

Sweet Magnolias: ASLP-IC Updates

  • Susan AdamsEsq, CAE; American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
  • Nahale Freeland Kalfas, Esq 
  • Kerri Phillips, SLP.D; Louisiana Tech University
12 - 12:15pm 

Lemme Let You Go: Wrap Up and 2026 Conference Preview

  • Vickie Pullins, NCSB President
  • Katie Brice, NCSB President-Elect & Conference Chair
  
1pm - 3pm

ASLP-IC Annual Meeting of the Commission
Separate registration required

  

Conference Faculty & Disclosures

Susan Adams, Esq, CAE, is the Director of State Legislative and Regulatory Affairs at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).

Tammy H. Brown, MA, CCC-A, is a licensed audiologist and Board President of the Ohio Speech and Hearing Professionals Board.

Charla Burill, JD, RDN, is the Senior Director of State Legislative & Government Affairs for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and an officer of the North Carolina Bar Association.

Stephanie Czuhajewski, CAE, MPH, is Executive Director of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology. She has 20 years of management experience in both the public and private sector.

Jason Dietrich is the Director of Educational Partnerships with the Educational Testing Service.

Isabel Eliassen is the Product Manager for Compact Connect and works with the Council of State Governments.

Beth Findley, MS, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist and serves on the NCSB Board of Directors.

Amanda Gallagher, CCC-SLP, is the Director of Clinical Certification with the American-Speech-Language Hearing Association.

Amy S. Goldman, MS, CCC-SLP, is the past-chair of the Pennsylvania Board of Examiners, and past-president of NCSB. She is also president of the US Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (USSAAC) and past-president of the Pennsylvania Speech- Language-Hearing Association.

Stacy Griffin is Director of Operations for Inspiring Apps with 20+ years of experience delivering mission critical solutions for clients.

Nahale Freeland Kalfas, Esq., has served as General Counsel for the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Speech and Language Pathologists and Audiologists for the past seventeen years. She is also General Counsel to the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact Commission (ASLP-IC Commission).

John Medlock, Esq., is Chief Prosecutor at the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation with over 11 years of experience prosecuting licensing complaint cases.

Kerri Philips, SLP.D, is Professor/Program Director at Louisiana Tech University as well as adjunct instructor at Nova Southeastern. Dr. Phillips has served multiple terms on the Louisiana Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. She is on the Board of Directors with NCSB.

MaryJane Richardson, JD, is an Assistant District Attorney in the state of North Carolina for Districts 20-Robeson County and 16A-Hoke and Scotland Counties. She serves as a Public Board Member on the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology.

Theresa H. Rodgers, MA, CCC-SLP, L-SLP, EdS (LD), is an SLP in the metro Baton Rouge area. A Board-Certified Specialist in Child Language and an ASHA Fellow, she has served as president of ASHA, CSAP, NCSB, and LSHA. Theresa is a former member of the Louisiana licensure board, chaired the ASHA Board of Ethics, and was a member of the 2022 ASHA Code Revision Task Force.

Andrew Stafford is the Senior Director of Professional Standards and Credentialing with the American Academy of Audiology.

Gregg Thornton, Esq., is the Executive Director of the Ohio Speech and Hearing Professionals Board and currently serves as the Past-President of NCSB.

Jason Wigand is an audiologist and serves on the NCSB Board of Directors.

Continuing Education Credits

The National Council of State Boards of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology is approved by the American Academy of Audiology to offer Academy CEUs for this activity. The program is worth a maximum of 1.55 CEUs, e.g., 0.60 CEUs for the pre-conference workshop and .95 CEUs for the conference. Academy approval of this CE activity is based on course content only and does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedure, or adherence of the event to the Academy’s Code of Ethics. Any views that are presented are those of the presenter/CE provider and not necessarily of the American Academy of Audiology.

This program is offered for up to 1.6 ASHA CEUs. ASHA Provider approval does not imply endorsement of course content. (CE Credits Pending Approval.)

Learner Outcomes

  1. Describe threats to regulation in speech-language pathology and audiology.
  2. Describe due process from the complaint to disciplinary process.
  3. Explain why licensure boards are important.
  4. Describe licensure and workforce data.
  5. Describe how intra-board communications can impact consumers and licensees.
  6. Explain the ASLP-IC’s operational status and database system.
  7. Summarize accomplishments and challenges experienced by attending boards across the country.
  8. Describe accreditation and testing standards by ETS, ASHA, ADA, and AAA.
  9. Describe challenges to regulatory board deference.
  10. Describe the importance of criminal conviction guidelines.
  11. Describe ethical practice in areas outside the jurisdiction of licensure boards, focused on education, advocacy and referrals.
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