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The Art of Communication
I recently traveled with my daughter, Hannah, on a class trip to China. We expected to visit and learn about the iconic landmarks on our itinerary—Great Wall of China, Forbidden City, Olympic Village. What we didn’t expect was to learn about speech-language pathology and rehabilitation during our tour. However, a visit to a clinic in Chengdu taught us that the field of speech-language pathology is relatively new to China. China only officially recognized communication disorders starting in 1980. The first speech-language pathology department was established in 1985 at Beijing’s Rehabilitation Center of China. The Chi...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - August 23, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Yvette McCoy Tags: Advocacy Speech-Language Pathology Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs

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...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 8, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Carol Polovoy Tags: Events Speech-Language Pathology Uncategorized Health Care Source Type: blogs

A Day in the Life of an Acute Care SLP
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from a guest blog post that originally appeared on Tactus Therapy. In the post, speech-language pathologist Brenda Arend shares highlights of a typical day working in acute care at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Washington. 8:30 a.m.: Assigning patients The first part of my day is spent opening up patient charts in our EPIC electronic medical record and assigning three SLPs to see patients in our 380-bed hospital. Two or three SLPs cover a caseload that ranges from 15 to 30 patients, although recently we see as many as 42. In addition, we also provide outpatient video fluo...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - June 9, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Brenda Arend Tags: Speech-Language Pathology acute care Aphasia Cognitive Rehabilitation Dysphagia Health Care Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs

Zimbabwe Needs SLPs in Public Hospitals
Zimbabwe desperately needs speech-language pathologists, according to the Africa Health Network in an article on Voice of America. State-owned hospitals and other public health organizations—especially those in the capital city of Harare—can’t keep SLPs employed. Government officials say this occurred primarily because of low salaries. “Right now there is not a single speech therapist working in public service in Zimbabwe,” says Michele Angeletti, country representative of Christian Blind Mission. This was confirmed by the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Dr. Gerald Gwinji, who says t...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 9, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: News Autism Spectrum Disorder Speech Disorders speech-language pathology Swallowing Disorders Traumatic Brain Injury Source Type: blogs

Save Time With These Tips for Making Documentation Easier
Speech-language pathologists have a pretty sweet gig, am I right? We get to spend our working hours immersed in myriad rewarding tasks like teaching new moms to safely feed their precious babies, helping families learn strategies to communicate with their children and helping people who have had a stroke regain their voices. And when our day of using our communication superpowers for the greater good is through? We get to sit in front of a computer for hours and write about it. Not in an “I love this work and want to chronicle my experiences” sort of way. More in a “this tedious, painstaking documentation somehow bec...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 7, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Amanda Rhodes Fyfe Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology Health Care Schools Technology Source Type: blogs