Dolores E. Battle, Ph.D., professor of speech-language pathology and senior adviser to the president for equity and campus diversity, has been elected president-elect of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association for 2004. She will become president in 2005 and serve a one-year term.

Battle is also in the middle of a three-year term as president-elect of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, to serve as president of that association for 2005-2007.

She has been a professor of speech-language pathology for Buffalo State College since 1970; she was appointed senior adviser to the president for equity and campus diversity in 1996.

She is the recipient of the Award for National Leadership in Special Education from Vanderbilt University’s Project Alliance, the Distinguished Service Award from the Speech Language Hearing Association of Western New York, the Distinguished Service Award from the New York State Speech Language Hearing Association and National Adviser Honors from the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association.

Battle has served as a consultant for the New York State Department of Health, the Educational Testing Service and the New York State Board of Examiners in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, and an editorial consultant for Speech Pathology On-Line, Child Study Journal, Communication Disorders Quarterly and the Journal of Communication Disorders. She is a fellow in the American Speech Language Hearing Association.

Battle received her doctorate from the University at Buffalo, and her master’s from Buffalo State College.