Abstract Date Presented 04/01/2022 During the 2019–2020 school year, school-based therapists working in setting quickly migrated to online and hybrid service delivery as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. Changes continued throughout 2020–2021 year. The purpose this research is describe how OTs, physical (PTs), speech-language pathologists (SLPs) developed addressed goals for students who received ...

Melissa Jakubowitz, M.A., CCC-SLP is Vice President of SLP Services at PresenceLearning. A speech-language pathologist with over 20 years of clinical and managerial experience, Ms. Jakubowitz is a Board Recognized Specialist in Child Language. With a diverse clinical background, Ms. Jakubowitz began her career working in the public schools and has also operated a successful, multi-office privat...

We report a 12-week outcome study in which nine persons with long-term chronic aphasia received individual and group speech-language teletherapy services, and also used on-line language exercises to practice from home between therapy sessions. Participants were assessed at study initiation and completion using the Western Aphasia Battery, a portion of the Communicative Effectiveness Index, ASHA...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Asha Kishore, Professor of Neurology and Movement Disorders expert, SCTIMST, my guide for the study, for her expert guidance, constant review, kind help and keen interest at each and every step during the completion of the study. Centre for Health Science Studies for helping me with the statistical analysis of this s...

Introduction In order to provide effective healthcare to the rural population, the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) by government of India proposed introduction of female health workers village level. These workers are called Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) and their role is to act at an interface between the community and the government healthcare services. More specifically, she...

Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a pediatric motor speech disorder characterized by poor motor planning/programming skills (ASHA, 2007). Treatment of CAS focuses on improving motoric processes for speech production. One important consideration within the therapeutic context is the complexity of speech targets. While many studies have examined complexity across linguistic domains (Gierut, 20...

This article examines the impacts of urban change on the well-being of women and men, and girls and boys, living in cities, and explores how gender intersects with other social relations to differentiate these impacts. It then considers the implications of intersectionality for organisations aiming to promote the interests of specific social groups (such as women, or people with disabilities) v...

The field of biomedical ethics is increasingly discussed in speech-language pathology graduate school curricula as well as in continuing education forums. The application of the principles of medical ethics can be extremely helpful to the difficult decisions sometimes facing speech-language pathologists with respect to doing good for their patients while respecting both patients' autonomy and f...

The relative intelligibility of the revised CID W-1 spondaic word list, as developed and recommended for clinical use by ASHA, was evaluated in two experiments. In Experiment 1, the revised W-1s were presented via monitored live voice to 25 subjects with normal hearing. Mean minimum recognition levels for each of the 36 spondees varied between 16.8 and 25.2 dB SPL, a range of 8.4 dB. In Experim...

Nonbehavioral tests such as ABR testing, ASSR testing, and OAEs are frequently used to assist in estimating peripheral hearing in infants (ASHA 2004). Although these tests are an important part of the audiology practice, they are, in fact, not tests of hearing. The only true test of hearing is behavioral assessment. ABR, ASSR, and OAE measures provide information about the integrity of specific...