I think, as some British colleagues have said before, children with specific language impairment seem to be a group of children who, the person on the street will never have heard of, and yet, the prevalence of specific language impairment
In recent, I can almost say recent decades now, I’ve been very active in cross-linguistic research. Initially I was focused on English-speaking children, and we really had a handle on what these children are like. There are some individual differences,
SpeechBITE started because there were other allied health databases that were being developed in Australia — focusing on other professions — so PEDro had been developed for physiotherapy. OTseeker had been developed for occupational therapy, and there was a new
I think the changing demographics is going to change all landscapes. There are going to be so many people who are living longer, and living with all these different chronic conditions. It’s going to be much more expensive to be
I knew that the measured audiogram — the audiogram that we measure routinely — gave us information. But it didn’t give us enough information about the psychological and social effects of hearing loss, so I decided that we needed to
Developing the College Program for Students with Brain Injury I was always interested in how you think about your thinking. Then I met a student on campus, and started to have coffee with her, and discovered she was really struggling
I’ll start with just a little bit of background. It’s interesting that in contrast to a large number of studies that have been done with children who have cochlear implants, there really is a major gap in the evidence on
I think it’s stronger when you have an interdisciplinary approach. We have a fairly active vestibular balance lab. There are four investigators that collaborate on research experiments. One physical therapist and three PhD audiologists. I guess what I’ve become really
One of the things that we try to do in our lab is, we always wonder, “How can we improve clinical vestibular assessment?” What are the questions? What are the things we need to figure out or work out that
Currently, as a speech language pathologist working with patients with ALS, patients are given feeding tubes, PEG tubes, and they’re given AAC devices. Really, the current state of play is they unfortunately have these crutches to help get them through,
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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