In a historic first for Michigan State University, two faculty members in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders (CSD) have been selected in the same year to receive the Honors of the Association, the highest award bestowed by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). 

CSD Department Chair and Professor Dimitar Deliyski, a pioneering researcher in voice and speech disorders, and Professor J. Scott Yaruss, an internationally recognized expert in speech-language pathology and stuttering, will be formally honored at ASHA’s annual convention on November 21 in Washington, D.C.

This recognition represents an extraordinarily rare instance in ASHA's history in which two faculty from the same department have received this distinguished award, underscoring the excellence and prestige of CSD scholarship at Michigan State. Deliyski and Yaruss join two other MSU scholars who have earned the award — Herbert J. Oyer (1980) and Ida Stockman (2006).