Erin Picou, AuD, PhD, CCC-AProfessor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center  Volunteers are an essential part of ASHA’s Academic and Research Mentoring (ARM) Network programs. This month, we’re highlighting Dr. Erin Picou. She has participated as both a mentor and a reviewer for ARM Network programs, which she

Karen Chenausky, PhD, CCC-SLPAssociate Professor, Mass General Brigham University of Health Professions Volunteers are an essential part of ASHA’s Academic and Research Mentoring (ARM) Network programs. This month, we’re highlighting Dr. Karen Chenausky. She has both mentored and participated as an awardee in several ARM Network programs, which she

The Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CAPCSD) recently released a position paper on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in CSD (Friberg et al., 2024). In a 2023 journal article that we co-authored with our

For faculty who organize external practicum placements, the primary responsibility is to ensure that graduate students in speech-language pathology receive high-quality clinical education in a variety of clinical settings. This requires building and maintaining strong relationships with supervisors, securing appropriate

The global pandemic has highlighted experiences of isolation, upheaval, and uncertainty, while also revealing divisions within society. In this environment, it is crucial to examine biases that may exist both personally and within professional practices. This paper will focus on

Opposing views continue to exist regarding the value of including racial and ethnic identities when considering academic and professional opportunities—even up to the level of the Supreme Court. Despite the persisting prevalence of these diametric views about diversity, equity, and

The science of teamwork has provided a growing body of evidence demonstrating the positive impact of teams in different work settings. Teamwork increases success, reduces errors, saves lives, reduces costs, improves retention, and more (see, e.g., Hughes et al., 2016;

By now, you’ve likely heard about efforts to decrease the research-to-practice gap in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) through implementation science. Tools and techniques of implementation science aim to improve client outcomes by systematically attending to factors that influence the

What’s new in bilingualism? Good things! For one, it seems that maybe we are finally ready to stop taking a deficit perspective on bilingual students. “What!?!” you are thinking. “We have been talking about ‘difference vs. disorder’ for years!” True,