As we near the end of 2025 and reflect on all that we’ve accomplished this year, one key fact comes to mind: We couldn’t have done any of it without our editorial boards and our great many other volunteers!

To Our Outgoing Editors-in-Chief

We’d like to start by recognizing Editors-in-Chief (EICs) whose terms are concluding at the end of the year. Thank you so much to Drs. Erin Picou (AJA), Julie A. Washington (JSLHR – Language), and Monique T. Mills (Perspectives) for their leadership and dedication to the journals.

Together, these EICs managed dozens of editors and handled hundreds of papers—all while steering their respective journals and shaping future research directions. We’ll miss them, and we’d like to thank them not only for their work as EICs but for all their work with the ASHA journals over the years!

And So Many More to Thank!

We’ll also see dozens of editors and editorial board members (EBMs) leaving their current positions later this month, including our six mentoring editors. We’d like to thank those who will be taking new roles with ASHA Journals—as well as those who will not be returning in 2026.

With ASHA’s Special Interest Groups (SIG) program ending on December 31, it’s also important to recognize the contributions of their Coordinating Committees (CCs). For decades, the CCs have supported journal editors in recruiting articles for Perspectives and providing SIG affiliates with continuing education (CE) content. We look forward to sharing the articles that all CC members have had a hand in bringing to Perspectives with the ASHA membership at large when the journal and its archive become available to all ASHA members in 2026.

The People Who Make ASHA Journals Run

This has once again been a banner year for ASHA Journals. Across our five titles, we published more than 950 articles in 2025 and are closing in on 3 million downloads for the year on ASHAWire—record numbers in both respects! Our editors and EBMs devoted countless hours to bring ASHA members timely, relevant articles full of information and ideas, and we are thankful to have been part of that collaboration.

Hundreds of individuals served as EICs, editors, EBMs, guest editors, and ad hoc reviewers for ASHA Journals this year. Their dedication to ASHA members—and to the sciences as a whole—inspires us.

We’ve had the good fortune to be guided by our stellar ASHA Journals Board, which is saying a fond farewell to our long-serving International Member Leanne Togher and to CRISP Committee representative Meghan Davidson. Our outgoing EICs made contributions to the Journals Board that have been so vital to the success and longevity of our overall publishing program.

Please join us in saying a big thank you to all involved!