Car Wash

The Car Wash on September 17, 2010 went smoothly.

Special thanks to the following students for their participation


Ashley Bonano
Abby Mott
Becky Bacon
Natalie (friend of Becky's)
Brittany Panetta
Diya Guo
Fatou Camara
Kamila Bome
Kristen Conley
Lisa (Kira) Salemi
Namrta Desai
Sarah Kate Deatrich
Emily McMahan
Kimberly Otero
Andy Lau

We would also like thank Mr. Robert Coxhead from Physical Plant who made this possible; and to all who donated.

Senior audiologist at CHoP on role of an audiologist in Cleft Palate Management Team

On behalf of SAA - OCA Chapter, we would like to thank Maria Hetlinger, Au.D., CCC-A, Senior Audiologist at CHoP, for her time on September 8, 2010. Dr. Hetlinger gave a lecture on cleft palates, and what an audiologist's role is in a team of specialists aimed at treating or managing patients with cleft palate. Her experience and insight has been most illuminating. Recording from the lecture will be posted shortly, for now, please find below her presentation.




ps. if you would like a copy of this presentation, or presentations from previous seminars, please do not hesitate to contact us at saa@salus.edu

Wake me up when September ends... oh wait, no, there are events you can't miss!

September 8th, 2010: 6pm @ Boardroom
Dr. Maria Hetlinger, Senior Audiologist at CHOP, will be speaking about Audiologist's role in treating patients with Cleft Palates. If you cannot be there physically but can be there via webex, let us know so we can set you up.


September 20th, 2010: 7:00pm @Boardroom
General SAA meeting and Meet and greet with President of National SAA, Ryan Bullock via WebEx.
Important that all SAA members attend. We will be telling you about reimbursing you for AAA membership. You will get FULL reimbursement:) So please come to find out more. If you can't be there, please let us know so that we can keep you updated.

September 25th, 2010: Walk 4 Hearing

Pending events:
- Car Wash
- Hearing Screening at Dreshner PA

Join the Salus University team at the walk4hearing!!

Steps to be walker:
1.) go to this site: http://hlaa.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=walk_home_page
2.) click on "find a walker or team"
3.) click on "find a team"
4.) In the search bar, type in "salus university"
5.)click "join a team"
6.)Type in "Salus University" in the Team name search bar.
7.) click on "join"

SAA Icebreaker Picnic

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to thank those that attended the SAA picnic. We hope every one had a good time and got the chance to get to know each other, or at least have a good start towards a beautiful friendship.

I also want to specifically thank Emily McMahan in leading out in getting the details together, and purchasing all the food needed to feed every one. Stefanie Natleson also helped Emily with the food so I'd like to thank her.

And lastly I'd like to thank Dean Bray for providing us with some financial support towards this picnic.

Theresa Mamah
President, SAA OCA Chapter

HLAA Walk-4-Hearing Kick off event

HLAA held a kick off event on August 8th. A third year student, Daniel Gibbons attended this event and said he had a great time, he brought back posters and brochures to share with the students at school. Thank you for attending the event Daniel!

HLAA states that there are three main reasons to hold a kickoff event before a walkathon which are listed below.

1. To gather as many confirmed and likely potential supporters of the walk together at one time to get them excited about the Walk and motivated to support it.
2. To give these supporters some basic training on how to use the materials they will receive at the kickoff to organize a team of walkers to participate in the walk and to raise money for the walk.
3. To distribute the walk materials (primarily a walk team captain instruction folder, walk posters and walker money collection envelopes) to the volunteers in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

The Salus Group is being created, we will keep you updated once we have it up.

Dr. Merenda from the Delaware County Intermediate Unit speaks to SAA

Thank you to Dr. Merenda for speaking to us about Educational Audiology. The video of her talk will be posted on our google group.

Thank you to all that attended the talk, please take a minute of your time and answer the 3 question survey that was sent to you through the saa email on August 4th.