Power Up, and Mix With Other Stars and Champions at Convention!
Want to promote your certification and professional services? Raise your profile in the community? See the professions featured more in the news? Become the next ASHA Member Media Champion?
Learn how to do all this and more at the 2018 ASHA Convention.
ASHA’s Public Relations Department is sponsoring a variety of opportunities in Boston for certified members—focused on helping you promote yourself in the community, online and in the media.
Read on to learn all these offerings November 15-17:
Take part in the “Value of the CCCs” campaign photo shoot
By now, you’ve probably seen ads for the “Value of...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - November 2, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Francine Pierson Tags: Advocacy Audiology Events News Slider Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Ideas to Build Your Brand With Colleagues and Clients, SLPs
The job of a speech-language pathologist continues to expand. And as demand for our expertise increases, so does our workload. Awareness about our profession seems not to grow as much, however. New SLPs, for example, might quickly learn about others’ sometimes-limited understanding about our scope of practice.
It can be frustrating when others don’t understand what an SLP does, but we can teach them by advocating for ourselves. As a school-based SLP, I educate many of my co-workers about the extent of my skills and expertise.
Let’s learn to represent our brand, fellow SLPs. I hope these strategies work as well fo...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - October 31, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Erin Milewski Tags: Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Advocacy Source Type: blogs
Tips for Targeting Curriculum-Based Language and Literacy
As a speech-language pathologist, I’m fascinated by the effect of language on literacy. I’m constantly learning, sharing ideas, and collaborating with other professionals on strategies for improving students’ phonemic awareness, morphology, syntax, comprehension, spelling or written expression. I’m so interested in this topic, that a few years back, I initiated a Facebook group, “The Speech-Language Pathologist’s Role in Language and Literacy.”
Below, I share strategies to target comprehension for expository text and vocabulary instruction.
Two primary areas SLPs can target to improve comprehension ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - October 29, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Sarah Warchol Tags: Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Language Disorders literacy Source Type: blogs
Where Will the 500,000 Teens With Autism Work When They ’ re Adults?
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, hosted by the U.S. Department of Labor. Although this has been a designated event—in various forms—since 1945, few companies actively recruit people with disabilities.
A structured UPS on-the-job training program helps young adults with autism prepare for life and work.
Job Programs for People With Autism Show Promise
Website Connects Employers to Job-Seekers With Autism
A recent article in the Houston Chronicle highlights this issue. The headline shares a statistic from advocacy group Autism Speaks, estimating that 500,000 teens with autism will age ou...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - October 26, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: News Slider Speech-Language Pathology Autism Spectrum Disorder Source Type: blogs
When Sam Found Language
I will never forget the day that I met Sam. He came into my room cautiously and sat quietly. I greeted him and he smiled tentatively in return.
Sam came to me like most of my other students—severely language deprived. He was 8 years old, with bilateral cochlear implants, unable to speak, sign, read or write. Although he was a typical child developmentally and cognitively, he used tantrums to communicate.
I asked him how he was doing. He smiled again. I pointed to myself and signed my sign name. “Kim.” Then I pointed to him and gestured for him to introduce himself.
“Eh,” he said.
“How old are you?” I signed. ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - October 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Kimberly Sanzo Tags: Audiology Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Apraxia of Speech Augmentative Alternative Communication hearing loss Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
