How and Why to Host a ‘Book Tasting’

School clinicians kept providing services online even as COVID-19 upended the world. Some students have skill gaps, but others show benefits of e-services—and a whole lot of resilience.

A private practice providing bilingual support to schools faces added layers of challenges during the pandemic, but sees value in service-delivery changes.

When the pandemic hit and schools suddenly shut their doors, clinicians had to quickly adapt their services to an online format, practically overnight. What did they learn?

Short, individual treatment, made possible through block scheduling, can help students progress and ease clinicians’ workload.

A patient activity branches out into horticulture, camaraderie, charity … and commerce.

A letter-writing program connects young children with seniors in residential care—addressing the correspondents’ unique social-communication needs.

New York has the most SLPs per 100,000 residents, while Nevada has the fewest.

Coding, quality reporting, and telehealth also see some updates in 2022.

A clinician changes her own perceptions of speech fluency and encourages others to re-examine theirs.

An audiologist comes to understand the struggle to acclimate to a CI for single-sided deafness when the patient is her husband.

As ASHA’s new president, Judy Rudebusch Rich sees resiliency, inclusive conversations, and increased diversity as key to moving the professions forward.