Clinically relevant research from ASHA Journals helps more than 200,000 ASHA members provide evidence-based care every day. Now, we’re expanding our offerings by providing ASHA members with free access to Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups (Perspectives).
If you haven’t checked out Perspectives, the February issue is a great place to start. Explore some highlights below, and discover a range of new resources!
School-Based Resources
Development and Implementation of a Supervisory Guide for School-Based Clinical Externships: Clinical externships are a great opportunity for students in communication sciences and disorders to get hands-on experience while providing much-needed support in the clinic. Creating and using a supervisory guide can ensure that supervisors and graduate students both receive the support they need for a successful partnership.
Self-Reported Attitudes and Practices Related to Trauma-Informed Care: A Survey of Early Intervention Speech-Language Pathologists: Knowing and using trauma-informed practices in the clinic can help you mitigate the negative impact of trauma in a child’s life. The authors surveyed SLPs about their knowledge of and attitudes toward trauma-informed care practices.
Clinically Relevant Articles on Dysphagia
Closing the Gap in Dysphagia Education: Rationale and Proposed Curriculum for an Undergraduate Course in Deglutition: SLPs in health care settings see a high percentage of individuals with dysphagia, but this may not be congruent with their coursework. This article addresses the lack of dysphagia training at the university level and proposes a curriculum for an undergraduate course in swallowing.
Dysphagia Management in an Acute Care Setting in a Patient Post–COVID-19: A Case Report With Review of Literature: Acute illnesses such as COVID-19 can exacerbate pre-existing conditions and lead to further complications such as aspiration pneumonia. Learn how to use evidence-based theories and objective metrics to achieve positive outcomes without using invasive or aggressive treatments.
Speech Intelligibility and Hearing Aid Retention
Bilingual and Monolingual Speech-Language Pathologists’ Intelligibility Ratings of Children’s Nonnative Speech: These authors examined how monolingual and bilingual SLPs rated non-native English-speaking children’s conversational speech. The authors found that accent familiarity does play a role—and suggested that SLPs work with interpreters and other professionals during language assessments of these children.
Analyzing the Relationship Between Real-Ear Measures, the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit, and Hearing Aid Retention: Many individuals with hearing loss don’t seek hearing aids—and of those who do, some end up returning them. Read about factors that may contribute to hearing aid retention.
Take Advantage of Free Access to Perspectives!
You can read all of the above articles—and more—in the February issue of Perspectives. If you’re new to the journal, be sure to check out our archive for thousands of articles published in Perspectives during the past decade alone.
For 90 years, ASHA has provided you with the latest clinically relevant research in all of our journals. Perspectives continues its mission of giving ASHA members access to information that they can use—in the clinic, in the classroom, in the lab, and beyond.
