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Clinical Forum on Working Memory in School-Age Children

Clinical Forum on Working Memory in School-Age Children

Working memory refers to the brain’s ability to store and manipulate information while comprehending or problem-solving. The latest clinical forum from Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools (LSHSS) provides ...
The Identification of Developmental Language Disorder Within Linguistically Diverse Schools

The Identification of Developmental Language Disorder Within Linguistically Diverse Schools

Janna B. Oetting, PhD, CCC-SLP
The April 2018 Clinical Forum, “Toward Accurate Identification of Developmental Language Disorder Within Linguistically Diverse Schools,” in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools showcases studies from five research teams ...
School-Based SLPs: Back to the Curriculum

School-Based SLPs: Back to the Curriculum

Ashley Bourque Meaux, PhD, CCC‐SLP
What happens when speech-language pathologists (SLPs) get together at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) annual convention? Move over TEDTalks! We spread innovative ideas and plant seeds for new ones! At ...
ASHA Launches Author Services Collaboration With Editage

ASHA Launches Author Services Collaboration With Editage

In today’s research publishing landscape, authors are faced with many new options and challenges in addition to the typical pressures associated with being a productive researcher. The overall goal remains ...
AJSLP Special Issue: Select Papers From the 46th Clinical Aphasiology Conference

AJSLP Special Issue: Select Papers From the 46th Clinical Aphasiology Conference

Exploring a wide range of current issues in rehabilitation, the March 2018 special issue of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology features 16 papers stemming from research presented at the ...
LSHSS Clinical Forum on the Treatment of Stuttering in Children

LSHSS Clinical Forum on the Treatment of Stuttering in Children

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools published a new Clinical Forum: Treatment of Stuttering in Children. The forum is intended to address the frustrations felt by researchers and clinicians ...
Special Issue: Select Papers from the Hearing Across the Lifespan (HEAL) 2016 Conference

Special Issue: Select Papers from the Hearing Across the Lifespan (HEAL) 2016 Conference

Sumit Dhar, PhD
The American Journal of Audiology has continued its partnership with the Hearing Across the Lifespan (HEAL) conference and has just published a special issue based on the important work reported ...
JSLHR Research Forum on Processing Complex Auditory Stimuli

JSLHR Research Forum on Processing Complex Auditory Stimuli

In October 2017, the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR) published a new Research Forum, Advances in Research on Auditory Attention and the Processing of Complex Auditory Stimuli, based ...
Improvements in ASHA's Peer Review Process

Improvements in ASHA’s Peer Review Process

On January 1, 2017, ASHA journals began implementing a new editorial board peer review model. During the first six months of the year, every ASHA Journal—the American Journal of Audiology, ...
Special Issues from the Conference on Motor Speech 2016: Summary and Highlights

Special Issues from the Conference on Motor Speech 2016: Summary and Highlights

Nancy Pearl Solomon and Yana Yunusova
Every 2 years, a small but dedicated international group of researchers, clinicians, and students meet in the United States to present and discuss new research on speech motor control and ...
ASHA Partners With Figshare to Enhance Discoverability and Reuse of Research Outputs

ASHA Partners With Figshare to Enhance Discoverability and Reuse of Research Outputs

ASHA has partnered with Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, to showcase supplementary research outputs within the communication sciences and disorders discipline. Research outputs published across ASHA’s peer-reviewed ...
Supporting SLPs To Work With Multilingual Children

Supporting SLPs To Work With Multilingual Children

Sharynne McLeod, PhD and Sarah Verdon, PhD
In 2014, the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology published a paper that reviewed 30 speech assessments in 19 languages other than English (McLeod & Verdon, 2014). The editors overseeing the ...
Study of Hearing-Aid Outcomes in Older Adults

Study of Hearing-Aid Outcomes in Older Adults

Led by Larry Humes, PhD, CCC-A, a team of researchers at Indiana University Bloomington conducted the first-ever placebo-controlled double-blind randomized clinical trial of hearing aid outcomes. With funding support from ...
Experiences With Kudos: An Interview With Dr. Kerry Danahy Ebert

Experiences With Kudos: An Interview With Dr. Kerry Danahy Ebert

Kudos provides a free toolkit for increasing usage and impact of published research. Researchers use Kudos to explain work in plain language, and to manage and measure efforts to share ...
Improved Review Process With New Editorial Board Structure, Now in Effect

Improved Review Process With New Editorial Board Structure, Now in Effect

Starting January 1, 2017, each of the ASHA journals has moved to an editorial board structure featuring the roles of editor-in-chief, editor, and editorial board member. The new structure is ...