| State of the States 2006 |
| This year, state legislatures addressed issues such as qualified providers, early hearing detection, scope of practice, speech-language pathology assistants, and more. |
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| Seven States Begin Work on Personnel Shortages, Qualifications |
| ASHA has awarded $30,000 in grants to seven states—Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, and Texas—to address personnel shortages and qualifications. |
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| Maintaining Your CCCs: It’s Simple and Offers a Broad Array of Options |
| Read the top 10 questions about certification maintenance and find about the wide range of options for maintaining your CCCs. |
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| Researchers Investigate Link Between Hearing Loss and Osteoporosis |
| Researchers are studying how osteoporosis, hearing loss, and dizziness may be related. *Audiology* |
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| Speech Telepractice Program Expands Options for Rural Oklahoma Schools |
| One innovative and cost-effective solution to the challenge of the clinician shortage in rural American schools is telepractice. |
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| New Online EdFind Offers Customized Searches, Reports on Academic Programs |
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| Language Intervention from a Bilingual Mindset |
| Development in two languages is in some ways different from monolingual development, but it is not more difficult and does not cause language impairment. Seeing the situation from a bilingual mindset gives clinicians a good start. |
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| Parent Programs in Literacy: Differences for Latinos |
| The factors that will influence the success and failure of parent programs with Latino parents become more difficult to manage without an understanding the families’ needs and experiences. |
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| Foreign Accent Syndrome |
| Foreign Accent Syndrome is the sudden and unexpected appearance of a seemingly "foreign" accent. |
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| The Importance of Effect Sizes in the Interpretation of Research |
| Researchers need to report study findings in a manner that is meaningful to their clinical audience, and clinicians need to evaluate the importance and relevance of research findings to their practice. |
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| Empathy: A Clinician's Perspective |
| An exploration of empathy in the client-clinician relationship and its influence on satisfaction with treatment. |
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