During the 20th century, the field of Audiology as a health care providing professional practice grew and developed internationally. Dafydd ("Dai") Stephens and others asserted "medical treatment and the technology by itself would not form an effective treatment and recognized that psychosocial aspects play an important role in clinical practice". In the US, the idea for the AuD creating different post-baccalaureate educational paths for research scholars (seeking MA and later-PhD degrees) and for patient-oriented, audiology health care providers was discussed by members of originated from the 1978
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Task Force on Speech, Language, and Hearing Science. A subsequent 1983 ASHA professional review affirmed the master's degree awarded at that time did not provide adequate practitioner/ clinical preparation, and thus in 1984 an ASHA Task Force recommended a professional doctorate (like those held by an MD, DDS, OD, etc.) be created, "At the 1987 ASHA convention in New Orleans, Rick Talbott had organized a panel discussion on the future of Clinical Audiology. The panel members were James Jerger, James Hall, George Osborne, Lucille Beck, Charles Berlin and Rick Talbott. Jerger organized a founding group of 32 audiologists who met in January 1988 for the first meeting of the American Academy of Audiology ...[at].. the second meeting of the National Task Force on Audiology in February 1988, another member of that Task Force, David Goldstein, reported on his attendance at the Founders meeting. Thereafter, at the October 1988 Academy of Dispensing Audiologists (ADA), Conference on Professional Education, the "AuD movement" was launched.
The Audiology Foundation of America In 1989, the Audiology Foundation of America (AFA) was formed with a charge to "transform Audiology to a doctoral profession with the Au.D. as its distinctive designator". a
Purdue University faculty member, and the former head of the Purdue Speech and Hearing clinic served as chair of the AFA for its first ten years. George Osborn, a "founding member of the American Academy of Audiology, also played a leading role in the establishment of the doctor of audiology degree (AuD), serving as co-founder and later chairman of the Audiology Foundation of America". Goldstein "spearheaded the movement that brought that vision to life" and David Goldstein is
"commonly regarded as the Father of the AuD" . David Kirkwood, former editor of
The Hearing Journal wrote, "Without Dr. Goldstein's determined and tireless leadership of the AuD movement during its first 15 years or so, it's unlikely that audiology today would be anywhere close to becoming a doctoring profession". This shift in educational and training options for audiologists was not uniformly accepted. The AuD degree program "shook up the status quo" in universities resistant to the proposed changes. in "the period from 1990-1992, six independent surveys reported that the majority of audiologists supported the concept of the Au.D. degree". Past Recipients • 2016 – Victor Bray, Ph.D. • 2015 – Eric Hagberg, Au.D. • 2014 – George Osborne, Ph.D., D.D.S., Au.D. • 2013 – Brenda Berge, Au.D. • 2012 – Jim Carroll, Au.D. • 2011 – Tabitha Parent Buck, Au.D. • 2010 – Christine Ulinski, Au.D., Kenneth Lowder, Au.D., Deborah Price, Au.D., & Susan Terry, Au.D. • 2009 – Linda Burba, Au.D., and Richard Burba, MBA • 2008 – Larry Engelmann, Au.D. • 2007 – Nancy Green, Au.D. • 2005 – David Cieliczka, Au.D. == Universities offering the AuD ==