March 6, 2007

ASHA Leader Online

March 6, 2007

The Ohio Department of Education and the Ohio State Board recently approved $2.5 million per year for two years to fund a proposal to address the shortage of speech-language pathologists in the schools.

Congress Considers Key Bills

Supplier status, hearing aid coverage, and IDEA full funding legislation are reintroduced in the 110th Congress.

Dysphagia Screening for Patients with Stroke

Speech-language pathologists find challenges in implementing a Joint Commission guideline for dysphagia screening for stroke.

Aphasia Featured in Daily Comic Strip

Cartoonist Lynn Johnston has incorporated aphasia into her internationally syndicated comic strip, "For Better or For Worse."

New Web Resource Targets Linguistic Diversity

A new online resource provides support to clinicians who face the challenges of service linguistically diverse children effectively.

A Look at AR in the Last Decade

This article is the first in an occasional series highlighting the work of master clinicians in audiologic/aural rehabilitation. In this article, Mark Ross reflects on AR in the past decade. *Audiology*

15 Principles of Consumer-Oriented Audiologic/Aural Rehabilitation

To be effective, AR services should be tailored to patients' needs in their individualized communicative environments, with their specific communication partners.

The State of the Evidence

ASHA has launched a level of evidence system for communication sciences and disorders.

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