By Dan Nonte, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-5371
Posted 1-26-07
GREENSBORO, NC – Graduate student Sarah Reid has won third place in a contest sponsored by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association for her essay “Ethics: Holding the Person Paramount.”
The Student Ethics Essay Award promotes ethical decision making as individuals prepare to start careers in audiology; speech-language pathology; and speech, language, and hearing sciences.
Reid, a native of Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., is a first-year student in the speech-language pathology master’s program. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Wheaton College in Illinois.
She wrote: “Human life possesses inherent worth, value, and dignity. Worth is not determined by societal value, but rather is intrinsic to human nature. Therefore, no person is beyond the scope of the life that we must respect and to which we must be committed. As professionals, our service to others must be motivated by the value ascribed to persons’ lives.
“Our commitment to life and human well-being impels us to focus primarily on the persons in need of our services with the supreme goal of their restoration and progress. This necessitates being sensitive to the circumstances and needs of those whom we serve by acting rightly and by making informed decisions, with compassion and wisdom, in a manner free of condescension.
“Our aim should be to free those we serve from the adverse effects of their speech, language, or hearing difficulties, that they would be freed for the purpose of living abundant lives.”
For more information about the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the School of Health and Human Performance, call the department at (336) 334-5184 or visit www.uncg.edu/csd.
