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By Kerry Danahy Ebert & Giang Pham
August 31, 2020
Speech-language pathologists and other communication professionals often perceive children and adults who speak more than one language to be a challenging population to serve. Yet in many parts of the world, speaking more than one language is the norm.…
By Ken Bleile, PhD
August 14, 2020
Speech is complex and requires many years for a child to learn. It begins months before a baby is born, when they lie curled in the womb listening to mother’s voice, and it continues throughout life. It is convenient to divide this long time into four…
By Elissa Kilduff and Lydia Kopel
July 31, 2020
Another school year is looming and it’s fair to say that all of us school-based SLPs are facing it with a new normal and many unknowns. There is one thing we know for sure, though. We will be reviewing IEPs—present levels, goals and objectives, service…
By Jaimie L. Gilbert, PhD and Ken Bleile, PhD
July 17, 2020
Speech reception entails sound traveling via air, bone and tissue, fluid, and electricity. Where speech reception ends, speech perception begins, turning electrical impulses into meaningful speech and communication. An end goal of speech sound production…
By Audrey Holland
June 29, 2020
But 2020 marks the 20th anniversary of the appearance in the ASHA Leader of this game-changing article entitled the “Life Participation Approach to Aphasia: A Statement of Values.” As most everyone in the “aphasia world” knows, the LPAA statement was…