Tracking Their Way Back to Health: Monitoring somatic symptoms can help patients with traumatic brain injury identify triggers and find ways to improve their functioning.
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Source: The ASHA Leader Online - June 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Pennsylvania Achieves New Licensure Law, Regulations: After 11 years, audiologists and SLPs clarified their scopes of practice and secured provisional licensure for clinical fellows.
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Source: The ASHA Leader Online - June 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The Way It Used To Be: Our professions have changed in unimaginable ways since I was an undergraduate —and will continue to change as we learn more.
I ’m packing to go to my 50th college reunion at the University of North Carolina–Greensboro, where I was an undergraduate speech pathology (what it was called then) major. Our professions have changed so much since I was a student there. (Source: The ASHA Leader Online)
Source: The ASHA Leader Online - June 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
ASHA Membership Nears 200,000: ASHA counts 198,000 total members, adding more than 6,000 in 2017.
ASHA ’s membership and affiliation grew by 6,312 people in 2017—a 3.3-percent increase from the previous year. ASHA now represents 198,000 audiologists; speech-language pathologists; speech, language and hearing scientists; audiology and speech-language pathology support personnel; and undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students in communication sciences and disorders who are members of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association. (Source: The ASHA Leader Online)
Source: The ASHA Leader Online - May 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Students: Apply for ASHFoundation Funding
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Source: The ASHA Leader Online - May 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Say Thanks During Better Hearing and Speech Month
Better Hearing and Speech Month is a perfect time to thank someone who inspires you —maybe it’s a colleague who works to help clients connect and communicate, or a special professor who works hard to nurture the next generation, or someone living with a communication disorder. Why not let someone special know how much you appreciate the work he or she is doing? (Source: The ASHA Leader Online)
Source: The ASHA Leader Online - May 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Learn About ASHFoundation-Funded Innovations in Swallowing Disorders Research
Ianessa Humbert, associate professor at the University of Florida and recipient of an ASHFoundation Clinical Research Grant, is the featured researcher in this month ’s “Foundational Questions: A Researcher’s ASHFoundation-Launched Quest for Answers.” Read about Humbert’s work to advance clinical decision-making inmanagement of swallowing disorders and improve treatments for people dealing with dysphagia. (Source: The ASHA Leader Online)
Source: The ASHA Leader Online - May 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Preparing a Clinical Practice Research Grant Proposal?
Apply until June 4 forASHA ’s Clinical Practice Research Institute (CPRI), which supports the planning and preparation of federal grant proposals that focus on clinical practice research. (Source: The ASHA Leader Online)
Source: The ASHA Leader Online - May 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
BulletinBOARD
The ASHA Board of Directors recently voted to: (Source: The ASHA Leader Online)
Source: The ASHA Leader Online - May 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Apply by June 1 for CAA Positions
Apply by June 1 for positions on the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) and the CAA Nominating Committee. The terms begin Jan. 1, 2019. (Source: The ASHA Leader Online)
Source: The ASHA Leader Online - May 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Apply for a Research Mentoring-Pair Travel Award by July 1
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Source: The ASHA Leader Online - May 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Access Audiology Examines Licensure Versus Certification
Do audiologists need both a license and a certificate of clinical competence? (Source: The ASHA Leader Online)
Source: The ASHA Leader Online - May 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Improving Care Interactions With People With Dementia: Researcher Natalie Douglas seeks to help long-term care staff communicate effectively with elders with dementia.
(Source: The ASHA Leader Online)
Source: The ASHA Leader Online - May 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Access to Auditory Information
Jillian Kornak ’s March 2018 article (“Are Your Patients Really Hearing You?”) provides so many timely and critical reminders for we who, as communication professionals, need to make sure that our communication is accessible to patients and families. (Source: The ASHA Leader Online)
Source: The ASHA Leader Online - May 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Firearm Suppressors and Public Safety
Audiologists must advocate for prevention of noise-induced hearing loss. However, “Could the Hearing Protection Act Boost Use of Suppressors?” (March 2018) neglected to address complexities of reducing regulations and making suppressors more immediately available. Quoting the American Suppressor Association (ASA) seems to imply ASHA alignment with the organization, and this troubles me. (Source: The ASHA Leader Online)
Source: The ASHA Leader Online - May 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
