American Speech Language and Hearing Association

A·mer·i·can Speech Lan·guage and Hear·ing As·so·ci·a·tion

(ASHA) (ă-mer'i-kăn spēch lang'wăj hēr'ing ă-sōsē-āshŭn) U.S. national organization founded in 1958 with headquarters in Rockville, Maryland; its members include speech-language pathologists and other specialists concerned with the interplay of audition and the act of speaking.