Speech-Language Pathology

“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 www.asha.org/bhsm with more to come, including press release templates members can easily customize, free patient handouts, and celebration/appreciation cards. Visit the site and continue to check back.

Chyrisse Heine knows Cambodia’s rural provinces well. She travels there regularly—and has for years—in her work for Cambodia Vision, which provides health care to Cambodian residents. In oppressive humidity and…

In the summer of 2018—just a little more than 16 years since I received my undergraduate degree from Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore—I started a new job as a clinical assistant professor several miles north of my alma mater at Towson University. Prior to this appointment, I worked as a clinical audiologist in a children’s hospital and now for the U.S. Army Reserve, as well as an educational audiologist and teacher at a school for the deaf.

It’s always difficult to understand when negative and hurtful words spoken at the expense of others flow so nonchalantly and go essentially overlooked by most people. Did anyone even notice that Peyton Manning slighted the more than 3 million people who stutter in the United States?

In a recent web chat, participants discussed the role of respiratory muscle strength training (RMST) in swallowing rehabilitation. The chat was sponsored by Special Interest Group (SIG) 13, Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders (Dysphagia).