ASHA Members Are Wowing Us With Leader Ideas —Submit Yours
At the Leader Ideas Lounge at the ASHA Convention, we’re asking members to share their ideas for articles. And their responses are nothing short of amazing!
(To be fair, here’s full disclosure: Submitting an article idea enters you in a drawing for an iPad. And those of you at convention still have plenty of time to give us yours at Booth 638 in the Exhibit Hall—but do it by noon tomorrow, when we do the drawing!)
Consider these personal stories we’ve been hearing: An SLP diagnosed with Parkinson disease was forced into an unexpected career change and has found opportunity in the challenge. A clinician is returning...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - November 10, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Carol Polovoy Tags: Advocacy Audiology Events News Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention Professional Development Source Type: blogs
What Barriers Face Students With Hearing Loss?
The Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University wants to know what you see as the significant barriers facing students who are deaf and hard of hearing, ages birth through high school. This is your opportunity to share your experiences.
The Clerc Center is mandated by the 2008 Education of the Deaf Act “to establish and publish priorities for research, development, and demonstration through a process that allows for public input.” Now is the time for ASHA members to share their input! The center will use your responses to identify priorities for the Clerc Center Strategic Plan 2025.
If ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - November 8, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Mary Ann Kinsella-Meier Tags: Advocacy Audiology Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss Language Disorders Schools Speech Disorders speech-language pathology Source Type: blogs
What Barriers Face Students With Hearing Loss?
The Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University wants to know what you see as the significant barriers facing students who are deaf and hard of hearing, ages birth through high school. This is your opportunity to share your experiences.
The Clerc Center is mandated by the 2008 Education of the Deaf Act “to establish and publish priorities for research, development, and demonstration through a process that allows for public input.” Now is the time for ASHA members to share their input! The center will use your responses to identify priorities for the Clerc Center Strategic Plan 2025.
If ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - November 8, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Mary Ann Kinsella-Meier Tags: Advocacy Audiology Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss Language Disorders Schools Speech Disorders speech-language pathology Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 212
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 212 – a “where in the world” edition from Dr Mark Corden – paediatric fellow in Melbourne.
Question 1
Where in the world was insulin discovered?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 3, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five appendicectomy artificial ear bionic ear claudius aymand cochlear implant frederick banting Graeme Clark hyperbilirubinaemia insulin Leonid Rogozov mestivier phototherapy pierre eymard Sister J Ward sodi Source Type: blogs
ADA: Deaf/Blind Patron Can Sue Movie Theater Demanding " Tactile Interpreter "
Reversing a trial court, the Third Circuit has ruled (McGann v. Cinemark) that a deaf/blind man is entitled to sue Cinemark under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) demanding that it provide a “tactile interpreter” so that he can experience the movie Gone Girl. Each interpreter — two would be required because of the movie’s feature length — would narrat e the film in American Sign Language (ASL) while McGann places his hand in contact with theirs to read the signs. The appellate judges rejected the argument that because of the need for subjective stylistic judgments about how to describe the movie’s a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 24, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Bottom Line: We Can Stop Hearing Loss in Many TB Patients
Health Equity Blog By Hyejeong Hong The cure for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is the same in the United States as it is in South Africa. Yet the drug regimen’s most severe and permanent potential side effect, hearing loss, occurs up to four times as often in South Africa. The reason is simple and stark: a
The post Bottom Line: We Can Stop Hearing Loss in Many TB Patients appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine. (Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University)
Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - October 19, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: New On the Pulse Bedaquline Deaf hearing MDR-TB multidrug-resistant tuberculosis South Africa Source Type: blogs
A conversation with a Rigvir flack
Over the last two Mondays, I ' ve beenwriting about an unproven cancer therapy that I hadn ' t really heard much about before. The cancer treatment is called Rigvir; it is manufactured in Latvia and marketed primarily through a Latvian entity called the International Virotherapy Center (IVC). To recap, Rigvir is an unmodified Echovirus, specifically ECHO-7, that, according to the IVC, seeks out cancer cells, replicates in them, and thus lyses the cancer cells (causes their membranes to break, spilling out the cancer cells contents, thus killing the cell), hence the term " oncolytic virus. " Somehow, mysteriously Rigvir was...
Source: Respectful Insolence - October 9, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: oracknows Source Type: blogs
Your Narcissist Friend Probably Isn ’ t Listening to You
If you can recognize this pattern, you can handle your favorite narcissist more effectively.
One trait of men and women with narcissistic habits makes them frustratingly difficult to deal with — either as a partner at work or someone to live with at home.
As a therapist who specializes in helping couples build more satisfying marriages, I focus on this trait in particular.
What is that habit that most people overlook about narcissists?
Get Familiar With These 20 Styles Of Narcissism
When you interact with a person with narcissistic habits, you need to stay strong. Don’t be aggressive; just strong in self-confi...
Source: World of Psychology - September 29, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Disorders Friends Narcissism Publishers Relationships YourTango dismissive listening Narcissist narcissistic habits Source Type: blogs
National Deaf Awareness Month Interview with Chris Soukup, CEO of Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD)
September is National Deaf Awareness Month. Today, in the United States, there are an estimated 11 million deaf and hard of hearing individuals who still face challenges associated with access to communication and employment. Despite legislation and entitlement programs, 73% of deaf people are not offered sign language interpreters, while 70% of deaf people are either unemployed or underemployed. Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD) was founded forty years ago by Ben Soukup, a factory worker in South Dakota, to help the deaf community achieve the same basic human rights that all Americans should be afforded.
Today, ...
Source: Medgadget - September 11, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Rehab Source Type: blogs
Governors Testify In Second Day Of HELP Hearings
At the beginning of the second day of the bipartisan Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearings on short term market stabilization, committee chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN) summarized what he thinks is needed to achieve stabilization. His list began with funding of the cost-sharing reduction program. He also acknowledged widespread support for short-term reinsurance funding, although he suggested that states should have a role in providing it. In other news, on September 5, a federal trial court judge denied motions to dismiss in a case claiming discrimination in violation of section 1557 of the ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 7, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Source Type: blogs
Memo To White Nationalists From A Geneticist: Why White Purity Is A Terrible Idea
On
August 14th, UCLA researchers Aaron Panofsky and Joan Donovan presented
findings of their study, “When Genetics Challenges a Racist’s Identity: Genetic
Ancestry Testing among White Nationalists,” at a sociology
conference in Montreal. They’d analyzed 3,070 comments organized into 70
threads publicly posted to the (sometimes difficult to access) “social movement
online community” Stormfront.Former
KKK Grand Wizard Don Black launched Stormfront on March 27, 1995. Posts exceed
12 million, ramping up since the 2016 election season. Panofsky and Donovan’s
report has ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 29, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Genetics Health Care Ethics and Hate syndicated Source Type: blogs
Video Interpretation for Patients With Hearing Loss
In health care settings, effective communication is vital. Miscommunication during diagnoses or post-discharge treatment plans can lead to serious consequences. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires hospitals to provide effective communication means for patients, families and hospital visitors.
Fortunately, technology advances mean hospitals can offer patients and their families video remote interpreting (VRI). VRI allows patients to communicate with audiologists, speech-language pathologists, doctors, nurses and other health care professionals in their native or preferred language—including various forms of...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - August 29, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Kathryn Jackson Tags: Audiology American Sign Langauge Health Care Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss Source Type: blogs
Senior Research Associate job, Univ of East Anglia
Senior Research AssociateUniversity of East Anglia - School of Psychology - Faculty of Social SciencesLocation:NorwichSalary:£32,548 to £38,833 per annumHours:Full TimeContract Type:Fixed-Term/ContractPlaced on:21st August 2017Closes:18th September 2017Job Ref:RA1434Senior Research Associate (Fixed Term) (RA1434)The University of East Anglia has some of the most innovative and highly regarded centres for research in the UK. Applications are invited for the post of Senior Research Associate in the School of Psychology. The aim of the project is to understand the influence of early sensory experience on the organisati...
Source: Talking Brains - August 25, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
3D-Printed Robotic Arm for Sign Language Translation
A team of engineers at the University of Antwerp in The Netherlands has developed a 3D-printed robotic arm that can act as a sign language translator for deaf people.
Sign language interpreters are often in short supply, and so this research team set out to develop a low cost automated system that can translate text into sign language. “A deaf person who needs to appear in court, a deaf person following a lesson in a classroom somewhere. These are all circumstances where a deaf person needs a sign language interpreter, but where often such an interpreter is not readily available. This is where a low-cost option, can offe...
Source: Medgadget - August 21, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Rehab Source Type: blogs
