Sherry Sancibrian, M.S., CCC-SLP, associate professor and program director of Speech-Language Pathology at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences (TTUHSC) School of Allied Health Sciences, has been selected for the 2010 National Council of State Boards of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Honors. Sancibrian will accept her award in October.
“Sherry’s contributions to the profession as a past member and presiding Officer of the Texas State Board of Examiners have helped ensure protection of patients who receive services from a speech-language pathologist or an audiologist,” said Rajinder Koul, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the TTUHSC School of Allied Health Sciences.
This award recognizes individuals for their exemplary contributions to the field of speech-language pathology and audiology. The National Council of State Boards of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology facilitates the role of state licensure boards through communication and education.
“I extend my heartiest congratulations to Sherry,” said Paul P. Brooke Jr., Ph.D., dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences. “She is most deserving of this award.”
Sancibrian specializes in child speech and language, autism, service delivery models and pedagogy of college teaching. She earned her Master of Science in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Texas Tech University in 1978.
She has worked as a speech-language pathologist in schools, acute care, and outpatient rehab, and has been teaching at TTUHSC for 26 years. Sancibrian is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and a Board Recognized Specialist in Child Language. She has served as President of the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and as the Presiding Officer of the Texas Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology.
Sherry Sancibrian