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.

On April 16th voice enthusiasts from all over the world 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.

As speech-language pathologists, we spend hours helping people find their voices. This could be with use of AAC, more fluent stuttering, 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.

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…

What part of facilitating carryover presents such a challenge? I found one missing link involves parent or caregiver training. Often, SLPs and educators include parents in deciding what AAC system to use, but not training and implementation. Various reasons exist to make including parents in AAC training difficult—no time for staff to train parents, parents can’t come to school during the day, a language barrier, other scheduling issues and more.