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Standard of Care for Patients With Cleft Lip and Palate in India-A Questionnaire-Based Study
Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 2022 Jan 31:10556656221074212. doi: 10.1177/10556656221074212. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA national survey of cleft teams was undertaken to evaluate the current standard of care for patients with cleft lip and palate (CLP) in India as a part of Cleft Care India study.This was a cross-sectional questionnaire-based study.Cleft teams across India attending the 19th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Cleft Lip and Palate were invited to complete the questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of 18 questions that included demographics, institutional details, patient protocols, surgical tech...
Source: The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal - January 31, 2022 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Panchali Batra Deborah Sybil Arisha Izhar Puneet Batra Badri Thiruvenkatachari Source Type: research

A survey of school-age children with highly unintelligible speech
Augment Altern Commun. 2021 Sep 6:1-12. doi: 10.1080/07434618.2021.1947370. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrevalence studies in the AAC discipline are fundamental to establishing funding, instructional, and research priorities. These data inform policy-makers on the allocation of clinical and educational services, help prioritize AAC pre-service and in-service trainings, and support AAC research grant applications. A survey study was designed to (a) provide prevalence estimates of school-age students who have highly unintelligible speech, (b) describe the demographic makeup of these students, and (c) describe their access ...
Source: Augmentative and Alternative Communication - September 6, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Cathy Binger Nathan Renley Esther Babej Debbie Hahs-Vaughn Source Type: research

Postdoc Positions in Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication at the University of Connecticut
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication-CT program is funded by a T32 Institutional Research Service Award from the NIH (Inge-Marie Eigsti& Emily Myers, Program Directors). The goal of this program is to provide targeted training in the cognitive neuroscience of communication disorders to predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars.  We invite applications for two-year postdoctoral fellowships, to begin in the Fall of 2019.Postdoctoral trainees will work under the supervision of one or more mentors on the CNC-CT team. These mentors are: Richard Aslin (Haskins Labs and University of Connecticut), Inge-Marie Eigsti, D...
Source: Talking Brains - March 26, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs

5 Steps to Improve Your AAC Skills
Until recently, my biggest regret since finishing graduate school in 2015 was not being proactive enough in learning more about augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). If you’re still reading this, you probably understand the challenges we as speech-language pathologists face with AAC assessment and treatment—not to mention actively engaging other professionals, accessing funding, finding opportunities for training and dealing with bureaucratic barriers. You most likely also experienced some other obstacles to success, including time constraints, attitudes, access limitations and student/patient cognitive-mot...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 29, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Monica Hudnall Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Augmentative Alternative Communication Professional Development Schools Source Type: blogs