Last year, ASHA Journals published nearly 1,000 articles—that’s more than 14,000 pages of original research! Because it’s impossible to list them all here, we’ve selected 10 articles published last year to highlight.
These articles include the most read and most shared articles from across all five of our journals. Read more below, and see what you might have missed!
What Your Colleagues Are Reading and Talking About
Practical Strategies to Optimize Cognitive-Communication Intervention in Complex Real-World Conditions: A Life Integration Approach: Our most read article of the year comes from AJSLP’s issue on cognitive-communication disorders. In it, the authors discuss real-world barriers to caring for individuals with cognitive-communication disorders, and they lay out practical actions that SLPs can take to meet those barriers head-on!
Genomic Investigations of Spoken and Written Language Abilities: A Guide to Advances in Approaches, Technologies, and Discovery: Our most talked-about article of the year was shared more than 50 times on Bluesky and X (formerly known as Twitter). In it, the authors discuss the impact of newly discovered genetic variants that contribute to an individual’s speech, language, and reading skills.
Trending Articles in Audiology
Updates on Auditory Outcomes of COVID-19 and Vaccine Side Effects: An Umbrella Review: These JSLHR authors investigated the rate of hearing loss and tinnitus associated with COVID-19—as well as hearing loss related to the COVID-19 vaccine. Read more in our most popular audiology article of the year!
The Speech Intelligibility Index: Tutorial and Applications for Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: The Speech Intelligibility Index can tell audiologists what kind of spoken communication a child can hear with and without hearing aids. Learn how to use this tool to help you make decisions about hearing aid candidacy in children who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Working With Children and Early Intervention
Functional Language Proficiency in Bilingual Children: A Conceptual Framework, Culturally Responsive Practice, and Measurement Approach: Identifying Spanish–English bilingual children who need speech-language pathology services can be difficult in a monolingual school environment. Learn about an age-appropriate and culturally relevant measure to determine a child’s functional language proficiency.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication Assessment for Children on the Autism Spectrum: Protocol Development and Content Validation: SLPs can make a big difference by conducting augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) evaluations, but they may not be confident in their abilities. These LSHSS authors propose a protocol to guide you inconducting assessments for children with autism spectrum disorder.
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Enhanced Milieu Teaching: SLPs have used enhanced milieu teaching (EMT) to address language delays in children with emerging language, but there hasn’t been a systematic review of the research supporting its use—until now! Read about existing research on EMT and some future research directions.
Are Speech Sound Difficulties Risk Factors for Difficulties in Language and Reading Skills? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Children with speech sound difficulties may have additional needs, including language and reading difficulties. The authors of this study emphasized the importance of broader language assessments and early intervention to mitigate academic issues in these children.
New Technologies and the Professions
An Introduction to Machine Learning for Speech-Language Pathologists: Concepts, Terminology, and Emerging Applications: Whether you’re excited to read about the future of machine learning or you aren’t quite sure what machine learning entails, this article has something for you! After learning key concepts and terminology, the authors of this study discuss how machine learning is used in the sciences—as well as limitations and challenges to its implementation.
Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT by Speech-Language Pathologists and Students: As we think about ways that artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models can help us in our work, it’s important to find out how clinicians and future clinicians feel about this technology. Survey respondents cited how they could benefit from AI, while showing hesitancy to use it without institutional guidelines and proper training.
Scratching the Surface
These articles represent just 1% of the articles we’ve published in 2025, and you can expect hundreds more articles in the coming months! If you’d like the latest from ASHA Journals delivered right to your inbox, you can sign up for new-issue alerts, newly published alerts, and even alerts based on your preferred topics (e.g., health care settings, hearing disorders, older adults and aging).
These are some of our most-read and most-talked-about articles this year. If you’d also like to read the award-winning articles of 2025, stay tuned later this summer for the ASHA Editor’s Award winners, hand selected by our editors-in-chief. You can check out 2024’s award winners (and winners dating back to 2017) in the ASHA Journals Context blog.
Be sure to keep up with Context, the official blog of the ASHA Journals, throughout the year for exciting new updates on everything ASHA Journals. If you’re on social media, you can find us on Bluesky, LinkedIn, and X (formerly known as Twitter).
