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Websites, Books and Apps —plus a Podcast—for You!
Editor’s Note: This post—together with the one from Friday, July 8—offers insights into the inaugural ASHA Connect conference. While the Friday post focused on the conference’s health care side; this one focuses on schools. ASHA combined the formerly separate schools and health care/private practice conferences into a single, resource-packed, networking-filled gathering called ASHAConnect. #SLPeeps from Connecticut to Canada to California and beyond enjoyed three days of sessions covering clinical and emerging issues, business management and leadership techniques, swallowing and neurogenic disorders, ser...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 11, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Early Intervention Language Disorders Schools Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs

Websites, Books and Apps—plus a Podcast—for You!
Editor’s Note: This post—together with the one from Friday, July 8—offers insights into the inaugural ASHA Connect conference. While the Friday post focused on the conference’s health care side; this one focuses on schools. ASHA combined the formerly separate schools and health care/private practice conferences into a single, resource-packed, networking-filled gathering called ASHAConnect. #SLPeeps from Connecticut to Canada to California and beyond enjoyed three days of sessions covering clinical and emerging issues, business management and leadership techniques, swallowing and neurogenic disorders, ser...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 11, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Early Intervention Language Disorders Schools Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs

SLP and ESL Teacher Raise Awareness About Multilingual Needs and Benefits—Part 2
Editor’s note: This is part two of a series on SLP-ESL educator collaboration. Read the first part, “Partnering With ESL Teachers to Better Serve Multilingual Children,” which appeared in December 2015. I’ve enjoyed a wonderful and busy school year since I wrote part one of this series in December 2015. In January, Lauren Harrison, my ESL colleague, and I continued raising awareness of bilingualism’s benefits through our “BiG” (Bilingualism is a Gift) campaign. Over the next few months, we presented on our collaborative efforts at three statewide education conferences and will present at...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 7, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Maryann MacDougall Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Bilingual assessment bilingual service delivery Cultural Diversity Language Disorders Schools Source Type: blogs

SLP and ESL Teacher Raise Awareness About Multilingual Needs and Benefits —Part 2
Editor’s note: This is part two of a series on SLP-ESL educator collaboration. Read the first part, “Partnering With ESL Teachers to Better Serve Multilingual Children,” which appeared in December 2015. I’ve enjoyed a wonderful and busy school year since I wrote part one of this series in December 2015. In January, Lauren Harrison, my ESL colleague, and I continued raising awareness of bilingualism’s benefits through our “BiG” (Bilingualism is a Gift) campaign. Over the next few months, we presented on our collaborative efforts at three statewide education conferences and will present at...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 7, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Maryann MacDougall Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Bilingual assessment bilingual service delivery Cultural Diversity Language Disorders Schools Source Type: blogs

Tips on Writing Articulation Goals for Second-Language Learners
Evaluating speech-sound errors of second-language learners might seem extremely difficult. Perhaps their first language includes sounds not used in English. And we’re not always familiar with the other language. Luckily, if we know—or can determine—what sounds exist in both languages and understand why these errors occur, we can answer this one important question: If a child experiences difficulty producing a sound, is it a true error or is it due to influence from his first language? Let’s begin with a look at the following Venn diagram and then take a quick stroll through some research. Finally, I’ll share two ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 5, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Scott Prath Tags: Speech-Language Pathology articulation Bilingual assessment Language Disorders Source Type: blogs

9 Exciting Facts About Medical Robots
Medical robots do not only exist in sci-fi movies, they are coming to healthcare. If medical professionals want to utilize them successfully and do not want to fear the loss of their jobs, they should learn more about them. Here are the 9 most exciting medical robot facts. Do you remember how Anakin Skywalker was seriously burnt and lost his legs in the third episode of Star Wars, The Revenge of the Sith? And do you also remember how robot surgeons did the best they could to save him? In the very near future, similarly amazing robots might come to healthcare to save our lives, too. Medical robots do not only exist in sci...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 29, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Medical Robotics future gc4 Hospital Innovation Surgery technology Source Type: blogs

Tips for Training Caregivers to Communicate With Dementia Patients
As a speech-language pathologist with a passion for geriatric care, I can’t help but notice how disenfranchisement of seniors seems to increasingly creep into our society. I see many seniors—both healthy and especially those with impairments—becoming more and more invisible in our fast-paced internet-driven world. Practically everyone has their noses buried in an iPhone or other device and face-to-face communication gets lost except for the FaceTime app users! I think SLPs and other professionals in our field learn to respect an individual and how to provide compassionate care for other human beings. These valuable s...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - June 28, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Linda Carozza Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Alzheimer's Cognitive Rehabilitation dementia Source Type: blogs

Japanese Government Continues to Ban the MMR Vaccine
Conclusion Japanese officials have made decisions that value the health and safety of their citizens when they have removed vaccines with dangerous side effects from their national vaccination program. Japan boasts a low infant mortality rate, despite — or perhaps because of — mandating only a fraction of the vaccines required by other developed countries, including the United States. If you wish to learn more about the harmful ingredients in vaccines or the potential adverse reactions, we have compiled an easy-to-navigate list of vaccine package inserts from the manufacturers that you can view or download he...
Source: vactruth.com - June 23, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Missy Fluegge Tags: Logical Missy Fluegge Top Stories HPV Vaccine MMR vaccine truth about vaccines Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs

5 Creative Ways to Get Kids Writing Over the Summer
The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali, 1931. Getting children to write over the summer can be quite a hurdle. When I went away to summer camp, we had to mail a letter home as the entry fee to the dining hall on Friday nights. This tradition probably originates as a way to encourage writing skills and communication with our parents, but most of us surreptitiously found a way to get out of it. We’d mail empty envelopes home, for example. Yes, that’s right; my mother would eagerly sort the mail, find an envelope with my handwriting, open it up and see … nothing. Sorry, Mom! The point is—if required writing didnR...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - June 21, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Emily Jupiter Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Autism Spectrum Disorder Language Disorders Schools Social Media Source Type: blogs

What You Can Do for Healthy People Hearing and Speech Goals in Your State
Tuesday’s blog post explained Healthy People, a set of national health objectives established each decade to identify nationwide health improvement priorities. Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) includes a section on hearing and other sensory or communication disorders. Is your state adopting these objectives? North Carolina, along with several other states, doesn’t regard the communication module as a priority for the 2020 plan. In 2018, states will begin looking at priorities for the 2030 Healthy People plan. Will communication sciences and disorders professionals be at the table in each state to advocate for inclusion...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - June 16, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Kathryn Dowd Tags: Audiology Early Intervention Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss hearing protection Source Type: blogs

5 Treatment Tips for Selective Mutism
As speech-language pathologists we wear many hats. By the time we finish grad school, we have training in articulation, language, fluency, AAC, pragmatics, voice, aphasia, apraxia, swallowing and more. But sometimes the terrain becomes more psychological in nature, as I discovered on day one of my clinical fellowship, when I met a student with selective mutism (SM), in which children speak in some situations, but not others. Here’s what I learned from treating my first student with SM. First and foremost, creating a treatment plan must begin with a thorough, team-based assessment. Then, I found the following steps prod...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - June 2, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Claudia Doan Tags: Speech-Language Pathology selective mutism Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs

Communication Considerations for Children With Hearing Loss
When a child fails a hearing screening and follow-up testing reveals a hearing loss, parents often experience a roller coaster of emotions. During this time, parents might get overwhelmed by making decisions that will affect the rest of their child’s life. However, as professionals, we must convey the importance of early intervention on future outcomes. Early exposure to language, in any form, lays the foundation for future communication skills. We also must come to the table with unbiased information. Allow parents to review all options and choose a path to communication they feel best fits their child and family. As s...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 31, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Kirsten Marconi Tags: Audiology Early Intervention Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss Language Disorders Schools Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs

A Mother’s Story of Language Choices for Her Son With Hearing Loss
Editor’s Note: As part of our recent feature on guiding parents through their language choices for children with hearing loss, we asked a mother to share her story. Here’s the experience of Mari Kuraishi: Five years ago, we picked up our son Calvin in Hangzhou, China. We’d been cocky as world travelers and set up our own travel arrangements—flown to Shanghai direct, and planned on taking the high-speed train to Hangzhou (less than an hour). We got ourselves to the train station successfully, but realized pretty quickly that all the seats were booked; we couldn’t just get on the train. We eventually got o...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 10, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Mari Kuraishi Tags: Audiology Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss Language Disorders Source Type: blogs

Make Communication the Focus for Parents of Children Newly Identified With Hearing Loss
“The most important role for the family of an infant who is deaf or hard of hearing is to love, nurture and communicate with the infant.” –Joint Committee on Infant Hearing Parents of children newly identified with hearing loss—especially infants identified at birth—must deal with the diagnosis, follow-up care and amplification recommendations. Eventually, they realize they need to use an alternate method of communication with their child. They probably turn first to their pediatric audiologist. As the family goes through the process of additional tests, confirming hearing levels and picking out hearing aid(s) or...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 3, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Tina Childress Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss Language Disorders Source Type: blogs

Keeping the ‘Science’ in CSD: Using Converging Evidence to Assess Cultural and Linguistic Influences
SLPs are pretty dynamic people. We perform evaluations in languages we don’t speak, identify and bridge cultural barriers, and change lesson plans on a dime to follow our English-language learner (ELL) students’ teachable moments. SLPs who work with clients from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds need a collection of soft skills that make our profession an art form. We should also remember what we do is a science. We apply scientific principles when we make, rule out and confirm hypotheses to assess clients’ needs. To do that we collect objective data and analyze and interpret it. It’s tough to fee...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 21, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Nate Cornish Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Bilingual assessment bilingual service delivery Cultural Diversity Language Disorders Source Type: blogs