Frank R. Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award
Forecasted
Frank R. Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award honors clinicians’ lifetime contributions, rather than funding new projects, to recognize advances in care in audiology and speech-language pathology.
Funder: American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): January 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Commemorative art object with a recognition plaque
Summary: Recognizes an individual’s lifetime contributions to clinical excellence in audiology and speech-language pathology.
Key Information: Nominees must demonstrate specific contributions spanning at least 20 years; work may be based anywhere worldwide.
Description
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation’s Frank R. Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award honors outstanding contributions to communication sciences and disorders. Rather than funding a new project, it recognizes a career of promoting clinical excellence through clinical service, supervision or administration of clinical service, clinical research, or other activities.
Selection focuses on specific contributions that significantly affected recipients of services and altered or accelerated the quality of clinical care in audiology and/or speech-language pathology. The award honors Frank R. Kleffner, a former president of both the ASHFoundation and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), who worked throughout his lifetime to expand and professionalize the foundation’s charitable goals.
