A Community of Scholars and Clinicians: SIG 19, Speech Science

Joining ASHA’s speech science-focused SIG can broaden your knowledge base and connect you with other like-minded colleagues. What would you say to encourage other colleagues to join SIG 19? Joining SIG 19 is a great way to meet other people interested in speech science. Our affiliates include clinicians seeking to use speech-science techniques in their practice, students with interested in learning more about speech production and perception and how to translate research into clinical practice, and professors who teach speech science and/or research in the area of speech science, among others. You can discuss how to teach speech science with fellow instructors, exchange ideas on speech science research with experts in the field, and work with clinicians and academics to apply speech science to assessing and treating communication disorders. How has your involvement in this SIG improved your understanding of and engagement with the field of speech science? Knowing that there are clinicians, researchers, students, and instructors in SIG 19 inspires us to make speech science more accessible for students and practitioners working with children and adults who have communication disorders. It can be challenging to incorporate speech science practices in a clinical setting. Involvement in SIG 19 raises our awareness of those challenges, and propels work toward strategies to increase accessibility of speech-science principles and techniques. What is one hot topic discussed by your ...
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