Connect With Colleagues About Speech and Language Lifelong Development
This article changed the way I consider measuring language use and also increased my interest in language sampling. It is a must-read for clinicians working with children who demonstrate deficits associated with social communication disorder and/or autism spectrum disorder.
Nichole Mulvey, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an associate professor in Communication Disorders and Sciences at Eastern Illinois University. She is an affiliate of SIG 1 and SIG 16, School-Based Issues. namulvey@eiu.edu.
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Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 29, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nicole Mulvey Tags: Academia & Research Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology developmental language delay language development Language Disorders Source Type: blogs
Two CSD Researchers Receive Presidential Award
Two ASHA members and researchers in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) recently received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers and who show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology.
Suzanne Adlof, PhD, associate professor, University of South Carolina
Suzanne Adlof, associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Carolina, and Cara Stepp, a...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 26, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jillian Kornak Tags: Academia & Research News Slider Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: blogs
An Audiologist Applies Her Communication Skills to a Political Career
As communication sciences and disorders health professionals, we work to improve communication abilities for our patients and their families. And, as an audiologist, I constantly experienced conversations in which people with hearing loss would either withdraw from situations due to a lack of confidence or would dominate verbally so they could drive the conversation. I began to see a similar pattern in politics—and how it led to a disconnect between constituents and their elected officials.
I ran for political office (and won—I was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives last November) because I recognized an ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 24, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Deanna Frazier Tags: Audiology News Private Practice Slider Source Type: blogs
Connect Attendees Share the New Ideas They Plan to Try
In the wake of ASHA Connect 2019’s wrap-up on Sunday, SLPs who attended are returning home, ready to implement a host of new strategies, from slowing down time to using the 3:1 workload model in schools to better gauging severity of speech sound disorders. Here are the new ideas just a few of them plan to try out across health care, private practice, and school settings.
New insights:
Valorie “Lorri” Andrews begins a new job as an SLP in the Sahuarita Unified School District outside Tucson, Arizona, on July 31. She attended ASHA Connect 2019 in preparation for her new position. “I’d like to get into classroo...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 22, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: J.D. Gray Tags: Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
How to Slow Down Time and Effectively Use Emotional Intelligence
ASHA Connect 2019 draws to a close tomorrow, but many of the record-breaking number of attendees will go home knowing how to trigger their brain’s amygdales to slow the passage of time during intensely good moments. Many will also understand how tapping into emotional intelligence can benefit you and your students, patients, or clients.
Keynote speaker—and former Olympic silver medalist speed skater—John Coyle launched the conference with tips on improving the quality and experiential length of life. His wonder as a speed skater at how 3/100s of a second can make such a difference in people’s lives turned into a de...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 20, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Academia & Research Events Health Care News Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Heard at Connect: How to Slow Down Time and Just ‘ Do You ’
ASHA Connect 2019 draws to a close tomorrow, but many of the record-breaking number of attendees will go home knowing how to trigger their brains’ amygdalas to slow the passage of time during intensely enjoyable moments. Many will also understand how tapping into emotional intelligence can benefit them and their students, patients, or clients.
Keynote speaker—and former Olympic silver medalist speed skater—John Coyle launched the conference with tips on improving the quality and experiential length of life. His wonder as a speed skater at how 3/100s of a second can make such a difference in people’s lives turne...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 20, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Academia & Research Events Health Care News Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
New Legislation Would Boost Diversity in the Professions
Congressional representatives introduced a new act to increase workforce diversity in audiology and speech-language pathology—an initiative that supports ASHA’s ongoing commitment to this goal in its Strategic Objective #6: Increase the Diversity of Membership.
Last week, U.S. Representatives Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) introduced the Allied Health Workforce Diversity Act of 2019 (H.R. 3637) in the House of Representatives. It was included as an amendment to H.R. 2781, a bill that reauthorizes several health care workforce programs of the House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee’s subc...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 17, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Michelle Mannebach Tags: Advocacy News Slider audiology Cultural Diversity speech-language pathology Source Type: blogs
How I Created a Treatment App for SLPs, Step-by-Step
I walked into the opening ceremony at the 2016 ASHA Convention in Philadelphia like everyone else—eager to hear the speakers tackle the theme “Everyday leadership. Leadership every day.” My idea that leadership is reserved for a few changed as keynote speaker Drew Dudley explained how we all can show leadership in our daily actions. After Dudley’s talk, I knew it was time to take a shot on a wild idea I’d been considering for two years—creating an app for speech-language pathologists to show patients, clients, or students images of what happens inside the mouth when speaking.
My wild idea for an app had hit...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 15, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Keri Jones Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Speech Disorders Swallowing Disorders Technology Source Type: blogs
ASHA, Other CSD Organizations, Collaborate to Raise Communication Disability at the UN
Miles Forma really doesn’t like when people think he is stupid because he’s unable to talk.
“I’ve had many experiences in my life where people assumed because I am a non-speaking person and sit in a wheelchair, I’m not intelligent,” Forma said recently using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).
The young man wasn’t saying this to just anybody. His audience included people with the power to change things—attendees at a major conference on disability at United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York a few weeks ago.
Mike Froma addresses the United Nations
Forma was a presenter at a session—or “...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 12, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Joseph Cerquone Tags: Academia & Research Advocacy Audiology Health Care News Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Augmentative Alternative Communication Language Disorders Professional Development Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
ASHA, Other CSD Organizations, Collaborate to Raise Communication Disability Awareness at the UN
Miles Forma really doesn’t like when people think he is stupid because he’s unable to talk.
“I’ve had many experiences in my life where people assumed because I am a non-speaking person and sit in a wheelchair, I’m not intelligent,” Forma said recently using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).
The young man wasn’t saying this to just anybody. His audience included people with the power to change things—attendees at a major conference on disability at United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York a few weeks ago.
Mies Forma addresses the United Nations
Forma was a presenter at a session—or “...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 12, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Joseph Cerquone Tags: Academia & Research Advocacy Audiology Health Care News Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Augmentative Alternative Communication Language Disorders Professional Development Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
Strategies for Working With Students Who ’ ve Experienced Trauma
It’s a Monday morning in the New Haven (Connecticut) Public Schools. Every Monday, my speech-language treatment sessions kick off with one of my kindergarten students. Every week with this student is a new adventure.
This Monday, he wears his typical soiled clothes and clings to the arms of the paraeducator bringing him to the session. He is not crying. He is not mad. He is clearly preoccupied, resulting in his usual withdrawn demeanor. He clings harder to the helper as I approach, places his head down and falls asleep within seconds as if he didn’t sleep the night before.
We finally make it to my office but not withou...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 10, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Cayla White Tags: Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Language Disorders social skills Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
In Appreciation: Katharine G. Butler
Katharine Gorell Butler, 1978 and 1996 ASHA president, died on June 17, 2019, at age 94, in Monterey, California.
The world became a less dynamic and interesting place on June 17. One of the most influential, respected, and loved people in our field passed away in Monterey, California, leaving behind a legacy that will endure through her ever-present spirit and through all of us who were fortunate enough to bask in her light for a brief time.
Katharine G. Butler, known simply as Kay, will be sorely missed. For many of us in the speech and language world, Kay was nurturer-in-chief who provided the push we needed to leave he...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 8, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Geraldine Wallaxch Tags: News Slider Language Disorders Speech Disorders speech-language pathology Source Type: blogs
‘Toy Story 4’ Features a Child With a Cochlear Implant
Pixar’s “Toy Story 4,” which debuted in theaters worldwide June 20, introduces a new character—a child with a green cochlear implant (CI).
Two aspects of this child are notable: He is part of a mainstream classroom and is smiling. Inclusivity and happiness are often missing in media portrayals of people with hearing loss, and this positive portrayal has sparked a hubbub of celebration online from audiologists, parents, and people in the deaf and hard of hearing community alike:
Belinda Barnet, mother of a 6-year-old CI user, shares her daughter’s reaction to seeing a child with a CI on the big screen:
Jay Ruderm...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 3, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Regina Escano Zappi Tags: Audiology News Slider Uncategorized Advocacy Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss Source Type: blogs
When Viral Videos Fuel Parent Expectations
I’ll never forget the session. She said, “Look at this,” as she pulled out her phone and opened her Facebook app. My client’s mom reached over her toddler to show me a video. “Look at this man,” she said as the video began to play. “He has Down syndrome, too. Look at how he’s talking.” On plays a viral video of a gentleman with Down syndrome speaking before Congress. We watched it briefly in the middle of our speech session, with her little one seated between us.
She looked at her child then up at me, her eyes filled with both hope and despair. She put her hand on her kid’s back and asked, “Will my ch...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 1, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Danielle Newcombe Tags: Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Advocacy Autism Spectrum Disorder social skills Source Type: blogs
Noisy Restaurants Are More Than Annoying —They ’ re Discriminatory
Loud is in when it comes to eating out. The trend of loud restaurants began with design—modern spaces filled with hard surfaces and featuring high ceilings—making voices bounce around the space. Some restaurants purposely amp up the noise level by playing loud music, forcing diners to shout above it.
More recently, diners and even food critics are rebelling against the trend by pointing out annoying noise levels in reviews and ratings. A recent article in The Washington Post goes even further by detailing how noisy restaurants discriminate against patrons with hearing loss.
People with “hidden” hearing loss can ac...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - June 28, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Audiology News Slider hearing loss hearing protection Source Type: blogs
