Every May, ASHA leads the observance of Better Hearing & Speech Month (BHSM), a time for raising awareness about communication disorders. Given the pandemic, BHSM this year is focusing on the impact of COVID-19 on persons with communication disorders, offering
Grammatical difficulties can be associated with developmental language disorder (DLD), autism, hearing impairment, intellectual disability, and complex communication needs—diagnoses that nearly every speech-language pathologist (SLP) will work with at some point. Amanda Owen Van Horne has curated 10 articles for
Each year, clinicians and researchers gather for the Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC) to learn about the latest research on aphasia and other neurogenic acquired communication disorders such as traumatic brain injury, apraxia of speech, and right hemisphere disorders. This special
Latest Forum From Perspectives Tackles SLI/DLD Terminology Discussion Children with language impairments face many barriers to assessment in the clinical setting. Aside from being under-identified, there is also not a consensus on how to label the unique challenges these children
In 2019, articles from the ASHA Journals were read 1.3 million times! During that time period, we published more than 750 new articles. Check out 10 of our most popular articles from the last year below in case you missed
Almost half of all children with permanent hearing loss have mild bilateral hearing loss (MBHL) or unilateral hearing loss (UHL; Walker, 2020); however, little research has been presented on this significant population. The latest forum from Language, Speech, and Hearing
Approximately 2 million people in the United States currently live with aphasia. This number includes nearly one third of all stroke survivors. Neuroplasticity and language recovery in aphasia was the subject of the 2018 Research Symposium at the ASHA Convention. The five presentations from the research symposium were developed into articles for a forum in the Journal
More than 400 hearing experts from nearly 50 countries gathered in June 2018 for the Hearing Across the Lifespan (HEAL) conference. In celebration of the 20-year anniversary of the first HEAL conference, there were more than 300 selected presentations. As
Vocabulary is a frequent target for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) working with children with speech and language impairments. In the latest clinical forum from Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools (LSHSS), Guest Editor Suzanne M. Adlof provides SLPs, special education
The 7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control focused on new trends and approaches in the area of normal and disordered speech and motor control. Ben Maassen, conference chair, has compiled 11 keynote and invited papers for a special issue
ASHA publishes four peer-reviewed scholarly journals and one peer-reviewed scholarly review journal pertaining to the general field of communication sciences and disorders (CSD) and to the professions of audiology and speech-language pathology. These journals are the American Journal of Audiology; American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools; and Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. These journals have the collective mission of disseminating research findings, theoretical advances, and clinical knowledge in CSD.
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