Clinical Updates, Tips on Business and Billing, Draw Attendees to ASHA Connect

Editor’s note: This is the first of two posts from the ongoing ASHA Connect Conference in Minneapolis. This post focuses on the health care side of the conference. The second, to come on Monday, will focus on the schools side. For speech-language pathologists in private practice and health care, attending ASHA Connect is a slam-dunk: The sessions give them hands-on information they can use right away. The sessions—smaller and more in-depth than those at the ASHA Annual Convention held in November—offer specific clinical strategies and business tips, attendees say. This is the first year for ASHA Connect, which began yesterday and runs through Sunday in Minneapolis. A combination of the former ASHA Schools Conference and Health Care/Business Institute, ASHA Connect is designed to meet the needs of SLPs working in schools, health care and private practice. The health care and business tracks focus on business leadership, business management and reimbursement, swallowing and swallowing disorders, adult neurogenic disorders and childhood clinical issues. Erin Ingvalson of the Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, Minnesota, came to ASHA Connect for a preconference workshop sponsored by the Minnesota Speech-Language Hearing Association. “Effective Interdisciplinary Management of Mild-Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury” was a must-see for her, as she is writing a clinical practice guideline on this identical topic for her site. Mary Below is a clinician at...
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