Speech-language pathologist Jennifer Cripps-Ludlum says her entire life is a mask. On the podcast, she shares a personal history of masking, including the forms masking takes in her life, and the associated emotional and physical toll.
New research updates our understanding of stuttering’s neurology and supports using a strengths-based approach to services for people who stutter.
Incoming president Bernadette Mayfield-Clarke brings her open-minded, well-traveled outlook to the professions’ work shaping the next 100 years.
To employ a strengths-based approach to assessment, consider using these four key tenets.
What is the social model of disability? And how does it differ from the medical model in playing to strengths and affirming neurodiversity?
In a program in skilled nursing communities, SLPs coach staff on communication supports to help residents with dementia better express their needs, access care, and connect with others.
An SLP provides communication supports—and teaches others to use them—to help children feel connected and human again during lengthy, trying hospital stays.
When her mother forgot how to perform basic tasks due to dementia, an SLP found that even her clinical experience couldn’t have prepared her for the 24/7 demands of caregiving.
How does UHC prior authorization work? Here’s a rundown of the process and how ASHA is advocating against it, as well as some strategies for avoiding delays in care provision and payment.
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.
I recently partnered with Autistic women on a community-based project to study their social lives, as well as those of transgender and non-binary people. Here, I share some of my experiences and learning.