Katharine G Butler was the first someone to serve two terms as ASHA president (1978 and 1996) She also serv as president of the National Association for Hearing and language Action (1980) and as president of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics.

Katharine G Butler was the first someone to serve two terms as ASHA president (1978 and 1996) She also serv as president of the National Association for Hearing and language Action (1980) and as president of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics. In 1991 Butler talked about her character and reason for introducing "language" into the Association's name:
single in kind of the things that I and several other family worked on for a number of years was inserting "language" into the ASHA name, and view [Johnson, former executive secretary] really didn't

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