SLP Writes Award-Winning Horror Film Featuring Lead Character With Hearing Loss
Before becoming a speech-language pathologist, I attempted to be a full-time screenwriter. (Hey, I’m from Los Angeles, it’s a birthright). After some early success, near misses, and heartbreak, I decided to find a more stable career—and a source of income—I felt equally passionate about. I discovered speech-language pathology and the rest is history.
I’ve worked as an SLP for the Los Angeles Unified School District for 10 years, and love my job. However, the writing bug still gnawed at me. By day, I’m a mild-mannered SLP, and by night, I feed my coffee habit and my literary dreams.
My work with children with sp...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 22, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Eric Bram Tags: Audiology Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology American Sign Language hearing loss Source Type: blogs
ASHA ’s 4 Tenets of Civility: A Guide to Public Discussions
Discussions appeared first on Leader Live — Happening now in the speech-language-hearing world. (Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases)
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 19, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Mike Skiados Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology civility Social Media Technology Source Type: blogs
Tap These Tools to Raise Awareness About Hearing and Speech
Better Hearing and Speech Month (BHSM) is the communication sciences and disorders community’s biggest, most high-profile annual opportunity to promote the professions and raise awareness about communication disorders.
Below is some of what ASHA has in store. Please join us this May. It’s never been easier to be involved.
2019 theme
“Communication Across the Lifespan” is this year’s BHSM theme. A campaign logo and free resources—including posters, bookmarks, coloring pages, social media cover photos, and more—are already available at www.asha.org/bhsm, with more to come, including press release templates that...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 17, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Francine Pierson Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Advocacy Professional Development Source Type: blogs
For World Voice Day, Treat Yourself, Colleagues, and Clients to the Vocal Spa
On April 16, voice enthusiasts the world over celebrate the extraordinary human voice. As audiologists and speech-language pathologists, we use our voices a lot. This year, in honor of World Voice Day, treat your voice to a full day at the vocal spa for some vocal pampering.
When you’re done pampering your weary voice, share these activities with clients or other hard-talking professionals, such as singers, actors, teachers, customer service agents, physical and occupational therapists, lawyers, and many more.
What do you need to know about vocal fry?
Can Students Qualify for Voice Treatment?
Vocal wear and tear is the...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 15, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Marci Daniels Rosenberg Tags: Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Voice Disorders Source Type: blogs
Act to Boost IDEA Funding and Reduce Paperwork
Take action to support ASHA’s requests to Congress to increase funding for the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and to address the paperwork burden of school-based providers.
Every year, Congress must agree on federal funding levels for the following fiscal year. Right now, funding decisions are being made for IDEA for fiscal year (FY) 2020. In letters to the House Appropriations Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee, ASHA is urging Congress to increase funding for Part B State Grants to $13.97 billion (a total that includes an increase to $441.8 million for IDEA’s Part B Section 619, the pro...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 12, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Michelle Mannebach Tags: Advocacy News Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology audiology Early Intervention hearing loss IDEA paperwork Source Type: blogs
Got Civility? ASHA Digital Toolkit Promotes Respectful Online Communication
As communication professionals, ASHA members can and should set a strong example of promoting and practicing civil discourse. But 53% of members responding to an ASHA survey had experienced uncivil discourse on professional social media sites in the previous 12 months, and 36% had experienced incivility on personal social media.
Although ASHA has codes of conduct and behavior for its official online platforms—such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram—ASHA can’t establish or enforce such codes on other sites, such as private Facebook groups. But members tell us they are often frustrated by the incivility on these site...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 11, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Lisa Cole Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology civility digital communication toolkit Source Type: blogs
Mirror, Mirror: How Our Voices Reflect Who We Are
As World Voice Day approaches on April 16, I’ve been reflecting on voice as “who we are,” “identity,” “gender,” “emotion” and “vocation.”
As speech-language pathologists, we spend hours helping people find their voices. This could be with use of augmentative and and alternative communication (AAC), increased fluency, or behavioral voice rehabilitation. For this article, I want to focus on voice as a whole, especially as an SLP who specializes in treating voice and upper airway disorders.
Identity
We all, in some way or another, feel our voice reflects our identity. If you ever ex...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 8, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Kristie Knickerbocker Tags: Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology voice Voice Disorders Source Type: blogs
ASHA Board Seeks Input on Governance, Elections Restructuring Proposal
Recommendations developed by the Ad Hoc Committee on Governance Review would refresh the association’s nominations and elections process and its governance structure. The ASHA Board of Directors (BOD) is soliciting members’ feedback on these and two other recommendations, as part of its ongoing periodic review and evolution of best practices in association governance.
Governance
ASHA has two advisory councils (ACs)—the Audiology Advisory Council and the Speech-Language Pathology Advisory Council—designed to identify, analyze, discuss and prioritize issues of concern for the BOD. Each state and territory has a repre...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 5, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Gail Richard Tags: Audiology News Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
5 Quick Tips for Selecting Clinical Materials to Respect Clients ’ Cultural Backgrounds
As it becomes increasingly easy to download “no prep” or “print and go” materials from a variety of online resources, many new—and experienced—clinicians might not realize the materials they plan to use don’t align with their clients’ cultural preferences and background knowledge.
Even with a conscious awareness of the importance of cultural competence, I’ve made mistakes in material selections, as both a clinician and clinical supervisor.
As a new clinician, I once gasped in embarrassment as the “Santa” articulation card fell out of my deck and on to the table during a group session with students w...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 3, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Cara Hammond Tags: Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology cultural competence Cultural Diversity Source Type: blogs
10 Strategies to Train Parents on Using AAC at Home
As a speech-language pathologist in the field of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) since 2001, I’ve experienced working with different disciplines and in many different contexts. Many times, when I visit schools as an AAC consultant, school-based SLPs and other school staff report carryover in AAC from school to home as their biggest challenge in helping a student become a more independent communicator.
Why is facilitating carryover such a challenge? I found one important factor to be parent or caregiver training. Often, SLPs and educators include parents in deciding what AAC system to use, but not in trai...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 1, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Rebecca Eisenberg Tags: Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology AAC Augmentative Alternative Communication autism Autism Spectrum Disorder Early Intervention Language Disorders Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
What Was Causing a Toddler ’ s Vocal Problems? Not Any of the Usual Suspects
When a toddler presented with a raspy voice, pediatricians initially suspected respiratory infections, dysphonia and then acid reflux. But, as revealed in a “Mystery Diagnosis” column in the Washington Post, the problem was much more serious.
A pediatrician initiated acid reflux treatment and referred the little girl, who had experienced voice problems since birth, to a a pediatric otolaryngologist. The ENTs investigations revealed a diagnosis that shocked the girls’ parents: She had a rare disease—recurrent respiratory papillomatosis. Caused by two strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV)—a sexually tran...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 29, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Carol Polovoy Tags: Health Care News Slider Speech-Language Pathology HPV Voice Disorders Source Type: blogs
Shareable Strategies for Working With Preschool Children With DLD
Preschool children seem to learn best when given routine and consistency. Children with a diagnosis of developmental language delay (DLD) are no exception, and may even need the routine and consistency more than their peers. Collaboration among all adults who interact with any child, but especially a child with DLD, helps create crucial consistency.
When collaborating with other professionals and parents, I find it helpful to share the strategies I use with these children.
Shareable strategies
I created a mnemonic device that parents and teachers can use in any setting. Keeping the strategies short, simple and easy to reme...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 27, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Amy Mentrasti Tags: Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology developmental language delay Language Disorders Source Type: blogs
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
Simple Ways To Boost Health Care Access for People With Communication Disorders
The objectives—and perhaps even more interesting, the disparities within the objectives according to sex, educational attainment and disability status—are tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics. We can search the CDC’s database by topic area for additional data on health care disparities.
While the government works toward the Healthy People initiative, we can help improve health care access for those with communication disorders in our communities. I started by considering people’s social determinants of health in my community and surrounding areas....
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 25, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Audiology Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology hearing loss Language Disorders Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
Amy Schumer Reveals How Husband ’s Autism Diagnosis Helps Their Marriage
Several major news outlets covered Amy Schumer’s revelation about and positive outlook on her husband’s recent diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. Her husband is James Beard-award-winning chef Chris Fischer, and the couple wed last year. She talks about his diagnosis in her Netflix special, “Growing,” and several autism organizations have expressed appreciation for how she views her husband’s diagnosis in such a positive light.
Schumer also shared in interviews how the tools the couple have received since the diagnosis make their lives and marriage more manageable. The comedian and actress also jokes in her s...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 22, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: News Slider Speech-Language Pathology autism Autism Spectrum Disorder Source Type: blogs
