Tap These Tools to Raise Awareness About Hearing and Speech

Better Hearing and Speech Month (BHSM) is the communication sciences and disorders community’s biggest, most high-profile annual opportunity to promote the professions and raise awareness about communication disorders. Below is some of what ASHA has in store. Please join us this May. It’s never been easier to be involved. 2019 theme “Communication Across the Lifespan” is this year’s BHSM theme. A campaign logo and free resources—including posters, bookmarks, coloring pages, social media cover photos, and more—are already available at www.asha.org/bhsm, with more to come, including press release templates that you can easily customize, free patient handouts, and celebration/appreciation cards. Visit the site and continue to check back. Weekly focus areas To tie in with the “lifespan theme,” ASHA will spotlight communication disorders by age groups in each of four weeks. Shareable content will detail the unique signs, symptoms, life impacts, and treatment considerations relative to each age population for speech-language development and disorders, social communication, hearing, and feeding and swallowing. Here’s a breakdown of the schedule: Week 1—May 5–11: Communication Disorders in Infants Week 2—May 12–18: Communication Disorders in Toddlers Week 3—May 19–25: Communication Disorders in School-Aged Children Week 4—May 26–31: Communication Disorders in Adults ASHA’s public activities, social media, and more will be based on this s...
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