Incoming ASAE chair drawn to spirit of collaboration Pietranton Arlene Pietranton, incoming chair of ASAE, is an association veteran. She has led the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association since 2004, and was an executive with the group for 10 years before. But she's also a professional speech pathologist ("I came from this field," she said), with a doctorate in psychology. So when she talks about diversity—one of her priorities as ASAE chair—she looks at the issue from the perspective of language: One of five children in the U.S. is born into a home where English is not the primary language, she said. And associations need to do more to reach these… Read More