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,...