June 2012
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Link: Using Your iPad in Dysphagia Therapy |... →
I’ve been going through some old tabs that I’d just left open in NetNewsWire, and rediscovered this post about apps to help in your dysphagia therapy written by Tiffany Wallace of Dysphagia Ramblings. Some great thoughts in case you missed it the first time around.
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Link: Speech Gadget: How to Find Speech Therapy...
Deb at Speech Gadget has some handy tips for searching for apps, if you’re on the lookout for that sort of thing. Or, instead you could just look at her positively astounding grid of apps for some ideas and then check out the ones that might apply to you.
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Link: Helen Stringer: Therapy Ideas Podcast,... →
Rhiannan Walton published the first episode of the TherapyIdeas.org podcast this past Monday. I gave it a listen this morning, and first impressions are good. It had an informal but professional vibe, the audio quality was totally acceptable, the length was fitting, and the ideas were good. Rhiannan’s first guest was Helen Stringer of Newcastle University. They mentioned the #slpeeps and...
May 2012
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Link: OneVoice on TUAW →
Interesting to see AAC apps being discussed in the “mainstream” (nerdstream in this case, I suppose) media. Anybody tried this?
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Link: The Onion celebrates Better Hearing and... →
“That One Kid In High School Who Had A Hearing Aid: We check and see how bad his hearing is now.”
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Replicationation
“Admittedly, carrying out exact replications of someone else’s work is hardly the most glamorous way to spend your time as a scientist.” — Ritchie et al., 2012
A while back, I posted a link on my personal blog to the Journal of Negative Results In BioMedicine. This fantastic series of pieces from The British Psychological Society on publishing (or not publishing) an inability to...
February 2012
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Link: iPad helps voiceless comedian perform very... →
The laugh track makes it hard to make out a fair amount of this guy’s set, which just goes to show that proper and effective AAC can be used to kill at a comedy club in England.
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Link: 'Vocal Fry' Creeping Into U.S. Speech →
I was going to link to this a while ago, but didn’t want to until I had read the study the piece referenced. However, the Journal of Voice is an Elsevier publication, so I’m just going to have to send you to The Cost of Knowledge instead.
December 2011
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Extreme nerdery regarding app management on...
{From the proprietor: What follows is the complete text of a comment I wrote in response to this post on GeekSLP. If you’re tempted to pull a “Too Long, Did Not Read,” the take-away is this: If you’ve never worried about the apps in the app-switching tray (the thing that shows up when you double-tap the home button), don’t start worrying about it now.}
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October 2011
2 posts
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Superpowers appears to be finding her kryptonite →
As I head to the OSSPEAC conference (Ohio school-based SLPs), one of the more prominent school SLP bloggers is having a really tough time. I might have to run this by the folks at the conference tomorrow.
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Link: SLPChat | Where SLPs can geek out with... →
SLPChat is an occasional (monthly?) meeting of the speech-language pathology minds on Twitter. Whenever a chat is arranged, just start following/hashtagging tweets with #slpchat to get in on the action. The topics vary from session to session, but there seems to be a rather extensive, vibrant group of contributors, among which you could be numbered.
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September 2011
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Link: Surviving Stroke / ideastream →
WVIZ - PBS and WCPN Public Radio out of Cleveland are in the midst of an ongoing series called surviving stroke. This evening WCPN played the audio of an M.D. describing surgery to clamp off an anueurism. Here is the video of that surgery. It’s always crazy to me, to think of a brain beating.
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Link: Steve Evans Blog →
A number of the #slpeeps across the pond have been posting this (apparently there’s a conference going on over there). Mr. Evans makes extensive use of AAC devices, and blogs about their use, among other things.
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Empathy and patient motivation
The current ASHA Leader closes with a column by Laura Deer ostensibly about motivation for a student with a tough /r/ to crack. While the format inherently results in a certain level of triteness or simplicity, the theme is universal for our field, and can sometimes be easy to lose sight of, especially for those of us who are still rather green as clinicians.
I have a patient that is really...
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Link: Guys with Aspeger’s doing software quality... →
I know a family friend on the spectrum who is a draftsman. I think this sort of strengths-aware habilitation is going to be increasingly valuable and increasingly common as social programs continue to see more of a squeeze.
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Link: Cheaper, shorter (usually), and apparently... →
The ABA Journal is not where one might usually expect to find a refernce to the fact that there are lots of SLP jobs out there. Take that, lawyers!
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#slpeeps →
If you read my blog, odds are you already follow most of the big speech names on Twitter and already know about this. If, somehow, you’ve missed it, however, #slpeeps gets appended to all sorts of interesting links, comments and questions from all walks of clinicians, researchers, and organizations. Track that hashtag. Track it now.
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Link: Quality Homework - A Smart Idea -... →
This is something that those of us who work with kids who have trouble learning already know quite a bit about. Average kids who aspire to be better than average know it too (they teach themselves these methods that work). I suppose the challenge to implementing effective strategies in the classroom and beyond lies in finding ways to apply them en masse rather than only via special interventions.
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Link: Scott Adams Blog: Systems →
I’m wondering if this form of thinking can/should be applied to our clinical practice. I certainly have my doubts that things like IEPs or insurance claims would readily welcome the sort of a change that a move from goals to systems might entail, but I can see the value in this line of thinking.
August 2011
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Link: User Testing in the Wild: Joe’s First... →
A man who’s never used a computer spends a long time with 3 popular web browsers. How does this affect how we look at things like AAC?
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January 2011
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Link: The Last Psychiatrist: Wakefield And The... →
I forget who first turned me on to The Last Psych, but I’ve been reading him for a couple of months now, and can hardly get enough. This particular story distills one of the big problems I have with “the academy” (though certainly not all of them) quite succinctly; it merely happens to be about the fact that there’s nothing tying vaccinations to Autism.
February 2010
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Link: When to Worry if a Child Has Too Few Words →
Anybody else find it odd that despite linking to ASHA’s norms, the only people the author quotes are other M.D.s?
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Link: NPR bit about Alzheimer's →
This woman’s experience with her physicians in being diagnosed with early-onset helps bring home the point that we all need to be our own advocates whenever possible. It’s also a heads-up for all medical professionals: that a dx isn’t probable doesn’t mean you won’t ever see it.
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January 2010
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"Sound and Fury" streaming
For those of you with the ability to do so, Josh Aronson’s 2000 documentary Sound and Fury about two families—part of the same extended family—considering cochlear implants for their young children is now available for streaming on Netflix. Even if you can’t see it, it’s worth a viewing. While the tenor of the film is pretty distinctly pro-implantation, it does a nice job of...
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Link: Nil By Mouth →
A reminder from Roger Ebert that while a patient is in the hospital, NPO is all about what they can’t eat or drink. Once they get out, it’s about who they’re not eating and drinking with.
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December 2009
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November 2009
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Link: Brain Scan Finds Man Was Not in a Coma—23... →
How often does this sort of thing still happen, I wonder.
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Link: Cochlear Implants, Psychic Powers, and Why... →
Gizmodo has always had its finger at least loosely on the pulse of assistive devices. Nice to see a piece on it in their “This Cyborg Life” series.
October 2009
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Hearing screenings? There's an app for that. →
uHear is a free hearing screening tool from unitron for people with an iPhone or iPod touch. The site and YouTube video explain it pretty well, and it does what it says it does. There’s a (relatively) quick and dirty pure tone threshold screener, a sound in noise screener, and a functional hearing questionnaire screener.
The results returned on the pure tone screener were similar to results...
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Link: Dinosaur Comics - October 27th, 2009 →
Developmental linguistics as a three-word punchline.
September 2009
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Link: AAC hits the NYT →
Have any of you used Proloquo2Go? What’s your best little-known AAC find?
Are these sorts of issues addressed in any fashion in all the current discussion of health care reform?
What are your thoughts on high-profile coverage of the field? Is raising awareness a virtue per se or does raising these complex issues in three minutes or 1,000 words do more harm than good?
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June 2009
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Link: Maine Speech Tx: Assess Your Voice →
I met Mike Towey at last year’s OSSPEAC conference, and he seems like a capital fellow and a fantastic clinician. His department at Waldo County General also seems to be trying to use the web in ways that remind us how far we still have to come as a discipline in using all the tools we have available.
Know of any other screening tools as readily available, but perhaps more easily...
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Facebook Group: Living Successfully with Aphasia →
I’m finding all sorts of people who are trying their hardest to get new media to work to the advantage of clinicians and individuals with communication disorders.For instance, @shirlsmor has created this Facebook group as a forum for folks with aphasia and their SOs, caregivers, family, friends, etc. Check it out.
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Link: Baby Lingo - animated developmental... →
This is a project I helped to spearhead in 2007-08. Dr. Stacy Williams brought together myself, other Case students, students from the Cleveland Institute of Art and individuals from the Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center for this project.
Turns out most of the info available online about developmental milestones was in written form, and written at a much higher reading level than was...
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PhD shortages
I imagine most of you saw this piece – An Innovative Approach to the PhD Shortage: Wichita State University Offers Grants, Forms Partnership with Fort Hays State University - in the June 2009 ASHA Leader. If not, that’s why there’s a link.
I’m not entirely sure I agree with the assessment from the report cited here as to why there’s a PhD shortage, and what to do about it....
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Introduction
I’ve noted that despite the ever-evolving nature of speech-language pathology as a discipline, there seems to be very few voices representing our profession online. Sure, there’s ASHA, but that’s about it, and even that has other SLPs as its target audience. Everything else that’s out there seems to be one of two things: therapy resources, or ads for service providers.
So,...