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Dolores E. Battle, professor emerita and lecturer in the Speech-Language Pathology Department, will receive the Honors of the Association from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the highest award given by the association, at its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, on November 21. The award is in recognition of her distinguished and exceptional contributions to the field of speech, language, and hearing over the course of her career and is based on her outstanding contribution and leadership in multicultural and international issues in communication sciences and disorders.

At the meeting, she will deliver the seminar "The Impact of War, Political Conflict, and Natural Disasters on Persons with Communication Disorders." She will also serve on the panel "Breaking News: ASHA's International Collaborations."

Battle served as co-editor (with Yvette Hyter, professor of speech pathology and audiology at Western Michigan University) on a special issue of Topics in Language Disorders, "Global Issues in Language Disorders: Frameworks, Processes, and Policies" 34 (2), April–June 2014.

She continues to serve as associate coordinator of ASHA's Special Interest Group 17, Global Issues in Communication Sciences and Related Disorders.