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.
New research updates our understanding of stuttering’s neurology and supports using a strengths-based approach to services for people who stutter.
To employ a strengths-based approach to assessment, consider using these four key tenets.
Incoming president Bernadette Mayfield-Clarke brings her open-minded, well-traveled outlook to the professions’ work shaping the next 100 years.
What is the social model of disability? And how does it differ from the medical model in playing to strengths and affirming neurodiversity?
A late-identified autistic SLP shares how her own difficult experiences inform her guidance of autistic adolescents in the schools.
By embracing and celebrating neurodivergent social norms, an SLP helps teenage clients build stronger connections with peers.
An SLP creates a participant-led weekly game day for neurodivergent youth to help them connect socially—without pressure to mask behaviors.
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.
Canine assistant Delta helps a pediatric SLP help children manage their anxiety, learn language mechanics, and try out social-communication strategies.
A speech-language pathologist shares ways of finding free or reduced-cost assistive technology.
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?
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.
A longtime audiologist forecasts how Bluetooth advances could help reduce hearing aid stigma, expanding hearing health care for all.
An SLP taps into interprofessional practice to accelerate progress for her students with CAS—and sees results.
A disabled clinician* forges strong connections with clients.
A speech-language pathologist builds a “communication cart” to help hospitalized patients with aphasia communicate with providers.
In a university clinic, a future SLP taps into the movies to boost clients’ motivation in aphasia group sessions.
On ASHA’s Centennial, we reflect on the substantial growth of ASHA’s peer-reviewed publications.
An SLP challenges herself to incorporate language used in a middle-schooler’s social circles into that student’s AAC device.
The agenda is set yearly by the Government Affairs and Public Policy Board, with survey input from ASHA members.
Some payment cuts are expected, but telehealth services stay provisionally approved.