More than 1 million people in the United States live with Parkinson’s disease—and almost 100,000 more are diagnosed every year. Given these numbers, it’s likely that ASHA members who work with adults will provide treatment for people with Parkinson’s disease.
To paraphrase Betsey Stevenson, an economist at the University of Michigan: COVID took a crowbar to existing disparities and pried them wide open (Grose, 2021). Academics as a group tend to be relatively privileged in terms of education and socioeconomic
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.
