Friday, November 21
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., ET
Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Hall E 

The Awards Ceremony celebrates high achievements and excellence in the professions. Awards presented this evening include the Honors of the Association—ASHA's most prestigious award, which recognizes lifetime achievement—and ASHA Fellows, whose recipients' contributions are the cornerstones of the communication sciences and disorders (CSD) professions. ASHA will present additional awards to honor other members who have also contributed to the professions and to ASHA.

The Annie Glenn Award will also be presented to a public person or group. It is named after the late Annie Glenn, a devoted champion for people with communication disorders. "The Annie" recognizes individuals who demonstrates Mrs. Glenn's spirit by making a positive impact for individuals with communication disorders. This beloved award is a perpetual highlight of the ASHA Convention.

This year, the Annie Glenn Award will be presented to Ann Friedman, Founder and CEO of the Planet Word Museum in Washington, D.C. The museum is dedicated to inspiring and renewing a love of words, language, and reading, a mission that aligns with the work of ASHA’s members. Ms. Friedman has championed the creation of exhibits at Planet Word that increase understanding of communication disorders. In 2022, the museum collaborated with ASHA on the current exhibit about word finding difficulties and aphasia. A forthcoming exhibit about stuttering is being developed in collaboration with ASHA.

Ms. Friedman has a long interest in literacy that began with a lifelong love of reading, early work as a copy editor and translator, and a later career as a beginning reading and writing teacher in the Montgomery County, Maryland public schools. Over the years, she has chaired the board of the SEED Foundation, the parent body of the nation’s only public, inner-city, college-prep boarding schools, and she remains on the board. Ms. Friedman is also a founding board member of the Downtown DC Foundation, which provides homeless services, revitalizes parks, and enhances public spaces and experiences, as well as a trustee of the Aspen Music Festival and School, a preeminent summer institution of classical music education, performances, and presentations.

Join us Friday evening as we honor the achievements of colleagues in the professions and present the Annie Glenn Award to Ann Friedman.

Watch the recording of the 2024 Awards Ceremony!