Audiologists and SLPs Share Inspirations and Practical Tools at Convention

If you couldn’t make it to Los Angeles last week for the 2017 ASHA Convention—or even if you just didn’t get to all of the sessions you flagged—Leader editors did go. And we gathered more than 200 article and blog ideas to share with you over coming months. If you don’t want to wait that long, take a peek at some of the intriguing ideas we captured from your colleagues in our #ASHA17 daily blog posts. We kicked off the convening of over 14,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, hearing and speech scientists, and communications sciences and disorders students on Thursday by asking attendees what parts of the opening session inspired them. This is ASHA Convention “number 24 or 25” for Stuart Settle. He’s an SLP working in a skilled nursing facility outside of Atlanta. His background, however, is in research, so he appreciated ASHA President Gail Richard’s attention to research in her remarks. She emphasized staying connected to research in everyday practice. Keynoter Goldie Hawn also impressed him with her pursuit of brain science and her focus on helping children understand how their brains work. Find out what other attendees learned and hoped to learn.  On the final day of convention, we discovered what tips, tools and approaches members heard from presenters that they can put into practice immediately. Enjoy a few highlights below—then see if you can resist reading all eight in the full post. Pamela Storey, a private practitioner fr...
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