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3 Pros of Building Up Assets Versus Paying Off Debt
Snowball. Avalanche. Gazelle. Search engine optimization (SEO) words for the National Geographic, you ask? Maybe, but they’re also terms for debt-payoff strategies popularized by personal finance commentators. Being debt-free, and getting there as fast as possible, are widely promoted in the personal finance community. This is, of course, a good thing. Having no debt is a great accomplishment and can come with some real emotional benefits. Some people feel less stress just knowing they don’t have debt payments. With that said, here’s my zag—I think this idea has been over-emphasized. The general point of a fast deb...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 24, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jacob Parish Tags: Audiology Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs

ASHA, HLAA Offer Resources for Members to Use as World Hearing Day Approaches
A long-standing champion of World Hearing Day, ASHA uses the opportunity to spread relevant public health messages and provide members with the tools to educate consumers. The World Health Organization (WHO) organizes World Hearing Day, recognized annually on March 3. Each year the WHO creates a new theme and offers specialized resources, published in a dozen languages, and hosts activities at its Geneva headquarters and around the world. Dovetailing on the WHO themes—this year it’s “Hearing for Life”—ASHA generates national campaigns and tools to help spread the message. ASHA and HLAA provide member tools ASHA r...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 21, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Francine Pierson Tags: Academia & Research Advocacy Audiology Events Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss Source Type: blogs

A Dozen Ways to Use Muffin Tins in Sessions
Looking for new activities? Limited space? No time to prep? No problem. Just grab a muffin tin and gather small objects or print little images to add 12 simple activities to sessions. A muffin tin serves multiple purposes for a variety of skill levels and ages on your caseload. I use muffin-tin activities to target articulation, phonology, expressive and receptive language, vocabulary, and more. Try one or more of these activities : Focused stimulation. Use small objects or pictures with targeted phonemes. Have the child identify the targeted object/photo from the field of 12 after producing the target word. Production pr...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 19, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Klaire Brumbaugh Tags: Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Early Intervention Language Disorders Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs

What Are Your Pronouns? CSD Faculty Members Share Theirs
“Good morning, boys and girls!” “Hello, ladies and gentlemen.” It might surprise you to learn these common greetings can be exclusionary—or a microaggression—for people in the LGBTQ+ community. As a cisgender communication sciences and disorders (CSD) faculty, we learned from our students and colleagues how simply changing the language we use to address people creates a more inclusive environment. What’s the big deal about pronouns? No one set of pronouns fits all. It’s impossible to know what pronoun a person uses without asking them. As speech-language pathologists, we understand the value of pronouns...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 18, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs

Microneedles Offer Possibilities for Inner Ear Treatments
Researchers at Columbia University’s medical and engineering schools are developing 3D-printed microneedles that may safely deliver drugs to the largely inaccessible inner ear. Because of the ear’s anatomy, delivering drugs—including promising gene therapies and other drugs for hearing loss—to the inner ear is challenging. The inner ear is almost completely surrounded by bone, and is shielded from substances in nearby blood vessels by a barrier similar to the blood-brain barrier. Study Identifies 38 New Hearing-Related Genes in Mice ASHA Voices: What If Permanent Hearing Loss Could Be Reversed? New Drug Linked...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 14, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Carol Polovoy Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care News Private Practice Slider hearing loss Source Type: blogs

ASHA Voices: Ijeoma Oluo Talks Race, Conversation, and Microaggressions
We know it can difficult to talk about race, but today’s guest, author Ijeoma Oluo, says that difficulty shouldn’t stop us from having those conversations. The best-selling author spoke as a special guest of ASHA’s Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) at the 2019 ASHA Convention. She delivered OMA’s 50th Anniversary Address.   Joined by 2018 ASHA President Elise Davis-McFarland, I spoke with Oluo at the convention. We explore the challenges and opportunities in discussing race, and also talk about microaggressions. In honor of Black History Month, we’re focusing our entire episode on this conversation. In...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 13, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: J.D. Gray Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care Podcast Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention communication sciences and disorders Cultural Diversity social skills Source Type: blogs

4 Insights on AAC I Learned From My Son With Autism
As a young professional in the field of communication sciences and disorders, I wanted to specialize in something. I just wasn’t sure what, exactly. Little did I know my son’s autism diagnosis would foster a passion for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). My son Colin was diagnosed with autism when he was 3 years old. He also has childhood apraxia of speech. So I knew early he needed some type of AAC. A few months later, Colin began his journey using a communication device. I, in turn, dived into the world of speech-generating devices (SGDs). Within a few days of using his communication device, Colin coul...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 12, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Deidra Darst Tags: Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Augmentative Alternative Communication Autism Spectrum Disorder Source Type: blogs

Tips to Help Caregivers Educate Others About Their Child ’ s Dysphagia
Parenting is hard. Trying to parent in the world of parent-shaming is really hard. It’s not enough to raise a child to be a functional member of society. It’s dealing with all of the information and “help” from well-meaning people that causes parents to feel insecure, isolated, and criticized. Parents often hear “Just give them a taste. They’ll like it,” from family members about their kid with feeding aversions. “I gave them some and they were fine,” to the parent of a child who is NPO (nil per os or nothing by mouth). Some may even use more extreme methods to “discipline” the child into eating or dr...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 10, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Heather Riga Tags: Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Dysphagia Early Intervention Feeding Disorders Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs

Supporting Families in Educating About Children ’ s Dysphagia
Parenting is hard. Trying to parent in the world of parent-shaming is really hard. It’s not enough to raise a child to be a functional member of society. It’s dealing with all of the information and “help” from well-meaning people that causes parents to feel insecure, isolated, and criticized. Parents often hear “Just give them a taste. They’ll like it,” from family members about their kid with feeding aversions. “I gave them some and they were fine,” to the parent of a child who is NPO (nil per os or nothing by mouth). Some may even use more extreme methods to “discipline” the child into eating or dr...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 10, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Heather Riga Tags: Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Dysphagia Early Intervention Feeding Disorders Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs

Communication and Goals: Keys to Successful Mentoring
Discussion group on health care to learn about hot topics. A six-month completion date for covering this topic. Goals don’t need to be complicated, but keep them clear, measurable, and completed within an established time frame. Even a general question can help get you both started on setting goals. Try something like: “Where do you see yourself in five years?” Then you can work backward to create the action steps needed to get there. At times, mentees might not have a solid direction for their career, and that’s OK. Just keep up consistency of communication. ASHA offers many ways for you to mentor. Experienced au...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 5, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Andrea Moxley Tags: Audiology Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs

Using Books to Start the Conversation About Big Feelings in Young Students
Being a small child with big feelings is hard. The glow of holidays and winter break has faded and it’s a long time until summer. For my 4- to 6-year-olds, this time of year often brings on those big feelings. I can easily find tons of age-appropriate resources covering emotions like happy, sad, and angry. But what about creating an environment to discuss disappointment? Anxiety? Guilt? We live in a time in which these more complex feelings can come out earlier, last longer, and more intensely affect young developing minds. I’ve discovered several approaches to work on processing these types of feelings with my younges...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 3, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nicole Corin Tags: Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Autism Spectrum Disorder Early Intervention Language Disorders social skills Source Type: blogs

Strategies to Support Parents Caring for Adult Children with Disabilities
Parents caring for their adult children with communication disorders walk a tight rope. They precariously inch along the wire of life, balancing their own responsibilities plus those of their children. They also balance myriad schedules, health care professionals, therapies, medications, and special equipment necessary for activities of daily living. Many of these visionary parents rejected the prevailing past trends to institutionalize their children. These parents might have been active in making sure their children received appropriate services in school, or home schooled. Many also advocated to change laws improving e...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 31, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nola Radford Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Autism Spectrum Disorder Source Type: blogs

ASHA Voices: Innovations on Strengthening Feeding And Swallowing Services
We delve  into feeding and swallowing disorders on this episode of ASHA Voices. From incorporating exercise science values into dysphagia treatment to developing new tools for measuring biofeedback, the work of today’s guests is shaped by their unique personal and professional experiences. With a background in exercise science, speech-language pathologist Lori Burkhead Morgan brings an interdisciplinary lens to dysphagia treatment. Learn why Morgan would only take a surface electromyography device with her to a deserted island. “If you are at the point that you want to eat three times a day, then I’m go...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 30, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: J.D. Gray Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Podcast Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Dysphagia eating Purdue swallowing Telepractice Source Type: blogs

TBI Leaders Respond to Comments Dismissive of Traumatic Brain Injury
Reporters recently asked President Trump about news that U.S. troops had sustained various degrees of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in an Iranian missile strike. He responded, “I heard they had headaches and a couple of other things, but I would say, and I can report, it’s not very serious.” An outcry followed these remarks, with military leaders and others noting that TBI has been called a “signature injury” among U.S. troops in the recent conflicts in the Middle East. Fifty U.S. troops are reported to have TBI resulting from the Iranian strike.  Research has tied mild TBI (mTBI, the predominant form) to...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 29, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Bridget Murray Law Tags: Audiology Slider Speech-Language Pathology blast injuries Cognitive Rehabilitation cognitive-communication disorder hearing loss TBI tinnitus Traumatic Brain Injury Source Type: blogs

5 Reasons I Switched from a Salaried Employee to a 1099 Independent Contractor
For several years before I got married, I worked as a salaried employee for a large agency. “W-2” employment provided me, a young speech-language pathologist, with certain benefits while allowing me to work in a wide range of clinical settings. The agency automatically withheld my Social Security and Medicare taxes, for example. Once I got married, however, my husband and I started thinking more about what employment situation would work best for our family.  We ultimately decided that the best fit for me involved switching to an independent contractor. Here’s why: Flexibility Working for a staffing agency as a W-2 ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 27, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Lauren Goldslager Tags: Audiology Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Health Care Professional Development Source Type: blogs