ASHA Voices: How COVID-19 is Changing Our Work Lives

In this episode, we talk with audiologists and SLPs throughout the country about the pandemic’s immediate and drastic effects on their work. From the Seattle area to New York City, they are facing significant challenges, but they are also rising to those challenges. Read the transcript for this episode.  Featuring voices of professionals in schools, private practice, academia, and health care, this episode delivers snapshots of what members are experiencing in various workplace settings, including skilled nursing facilities. Before I can clock in, we have to go and take our temperature and record that. And then, if we’ve had any symptoms, we have to go talk to the infection control nurse, and she would, of course, just send us home.  —SLP Erin Carver, Seattle-area skilled nursing facility We hear from Hallie Bulkin, who runs Little Sprout Therapy in Bethesda, Maryland, as the brick-and-mortar practice makes a sudden shift to telepractice. The transition was stressful for some of her SLPs, Bulkin says, and the reaction from her clients is also varied. Some were willing to make the change; others, less so. Jasmin Davoodi is a school-based SLP in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Davoodi does not yet know if her school district will move to telepractice service delivery. It’s been really tough ’cause a lot of parents have been emailing me, and they’re like, ‘What’s going on? Is there anything we should be doing at home?’ â...
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