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ASHA Voices: The Difference Patient Counseling Makes
SLP Jasmine Keaney began her career working in a long-term acute care hospital, where she developed skills in counseling patients and their care partners. On the podcast Keaney shares stories from her career, and practical ways SLPs can help patients through counseling.
March 13, 2025
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How Executive Orders Might Affect Audiologists and SLPs
February 19, 2025 -
Toward Stutter-Affirming Therapy
New research updates our understanding of stuttering’s neurology and supports using a strengths-based approach to services for people who stutter.
January 12, 2025 -
What SLPs Wrote, Discussed, and Shared Most in 2024
January 3, 2025 -
How Do We Identify Client Needs Through a Neurodiversity-Affirming Lens?
To employ a strengths-based approach to assessment, consider using these four key tenets.
January 15, 2025 -
On ASHA’s Centennial, a Presidential Push for Professional Transformation
Incoming president Bernadette Mayfield-Clarke brings her open-minded, well-traveled outlook to the professions’ work shaping the next 100 years.
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Imagine True Inclusion: Defining the Social Model of Disability
What is the social model of disability? And how does it differ from the medical model in playing to strengths and affirming neurodiversity?
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A Neurodivergent View: Give Us Strategies … With Choices
A late-identified autistic SLP shares how her own difficult experiences inform her guidance of autistic adolescents in the schools.
January 16, 2025 -
Positively Disrupting Social Groups: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Glow-Up
By embracing and celebrating neurodivergent social norms, an SLP helps teenage clients build stronger connections with peers.
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What Audiologists Wrote, Discussed, and Shared Most in 2024
January 2, 2025 -
UnitedHealthcare Implements Prior Authorization for Therapy
January 7, 2025 -
Gaming as Peer Support for Neurodivergent Teens
An SLP creates a participant-led weekly game day for neurodivergent youth to help them connect socially—without pressure to mask behaviors.
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Liberating Languaging: A Pop-Up Museum Explores ‘Language-as-a-Verb’
In an art installation, CSD students reinterpret language as going beyond rule-bound words and symbols to represent our dynamically constructed individual and cultural stories.
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Movie ‘Out of My Mind’ Points to Need for AAC Inclusion in Schools
February 28, 2025 -
How My Therapy Dog Changed My Practice Forever
Canine assistant Delta helps a pediatric SLP help children manage their anxiety, learn language mechanics, and try out social-communication strategies.
January 8, 2025
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School-based SLPs: How to Tap Into AAC Resources for Your Students
A speech-language pathologist shares ways of finding free or reduced-cost assistive technology.
March 21, 2025 -
Predictive Text: Who Controls the Conversation?
Some worry that predictive text in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) may thwart autonomy and expression. Others see it as liberating. How do we ensure the technology does right by users?
March 15, 2025 -
From Frustration to Understanding: An AAC Story of Presuming Potential
What happens when we believe in ability, and avoid making assumptions, when introducing augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)? We boost a new user’s power to effectively communicate.
March 15, 2025 -
A Collection for Neurodiversity Celebration Week
March 15, 2025 -
Future Forward: More Connectivity Enhances Hearing Aid Technology
A longtime audiologist forecasts how Bluetooth advances could help reduce hearing aid stigma, expanding hearing health care for all.
March 13, 2025 -
ASHA Voices: The Difference Patient Counseling Makes
March 13, 2025 -
It Takes a Team to Support Students With Childhood Apraxia of Speech
An SLP taps into interprofessional practice to accelerate progress for her students with CAS—and sees results.
March 12, 2025 -
Establishing Rapport With Clients … With a Disability
A disabled clinician* forges strong connections with clients.
March 12, 2025 -
Wheeling AAC Support for Aphasia Into the ICU
A speech-language pathologist builds a “communication cart” to help hospitalized patients with aphasia communicate with providers.
March 11, 2025 -
Lights! Camera! Aphasia! Hosting a Movie Club for People With Aphasia
In a university clinic, a future SLP taps into the movies to boost clients’ motivation in aphasia group sessions.
March 10, 2025 -
ASHA Journals Approach a Century’s Worth of Content
On ASHA’s Centennial, we reflect on the substantial growth of ASHA’s peer-reviewed publications.
March 10, 2025 -
From My Perspective/Opinion: Beyond Words: How Code-Switching in AAC Reflects Social and Cultural Nuance
An SLP challenges herself to incorporate language used in a middle-schooler’s social circles into that student’s AAC device.
March 8, 2025 -
ASHA Sets 2025 Advocacy Priorities
The agenda is set yearly by the Government Affairs and Public Policy Board, with survey input from ASHA members.
March 8, 2025 -
What Changes Does This Year’s Medicare Fee Schedule Hold for Audiologists and SLPs?
Some payment cuts are expected, but telehealth services stay provisionally approved.
March 7, 2025
