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ASHA made history in Philadelphia on Nov. 18-20 as 12,346 members from all 50 states and the District of Columbia and 41 foreign countries gathered to learn, celebrate, and feel [...]

The theme "Power in Partnership" resonated throughout ASHA Schools 2008, which brought together two associations and nearly 900 school-based professionals on July 25-27 for an invigorating mix of audiology and [...]

In this city of bridges, ASHA Schools Conference participants from across the United States and around the world honored the diverse heritage of Pittsburgh's founders and built their own inter-cultural [...]

Not far from the nation's capital where the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law was enacted, nearly 740 participants gathered at ASHA's 2004 Schools Conference at Baltimore's Inner Harbor to [...]

After all interminable wait in the surgical holding area, the anesthesiologist came and signed the word "now." I stared at him. As we began to walk toward the operating room, [...]

At long last, the majority of infants now receive screening to detect hearing loss within the first two days--not years--of life. But there's still a long way to go to [...]

Samantha McBride's parents had a vision for their daughter. It was the promise of being able to hear the rain pattering on the sidewalk. The wind blowing through the trees. [...]

The 2009 ASHA Schools Conference became an incubator for systems change through an inaugural workload implementation practicum. The day-long workshop held during the conference was the first of its kind [...]

Just blocks away from the vibrant Power and Light district in the heart of Kansas City, the brightest lights shone at ASHA Schools 2009 where 1,000 school-based speech-language pathologists networked [...]

As temperatures rose in June, education policy also heated up as ASHA members around the country spoke at regional meetings on proposed regulations for Part C of the Individuals with [...]

Salary supplements for school-based clinicians are now in place in three California districts--the San Diego, Carlsbad, and Natomas unified school districts--that used a variety of strategies to win salary increases [...]

ASHA has awarded $30,000 in grants to seven states--Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, and Texas--to help address some of the most challenging issues facing states today: maintaining the master's [...]

Baltimore County Public Schools in Maryland may soon join a growing number of schools to amplify general education classrooms with sound field systems. Sound field systems amplify a teacher's voice [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Oct. 5 to determine whether the family or the school district bears the burden of persuasion at a due process hearing in [...]

In the city where Janet Guthrie became the first woman to participate in the Indianapolis 500 by combining the science of engineering with a passion for race car driving, participants [...]

Speech-language pathologists in Texas are celebrating a first-round victory in upholding the state's professional qualification standards. The Texas Speech Language Hearing Association (TSHA) successfully thwarted passage of an amendment that [...]

Speech-language pathologists in Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) in California found that the three P's of advocacy--patience, persistence, and partnerships--helped win a $2,213 salary supplement for clinicians who hold [...]

ASHA members are hoping to shape the development of regulations for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA '04) by submitting more than 1,600 comment letters and [...]

Changes in IDEA '04 have prompted local education agencies (LEAs) across the nation to consider new models that may reduce the number of students who need special education services or [...]

With the ink dry on President Bush's signature on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA'04), the U.S. Department of Education (ED) is now beginning to develop [...]

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and audiologists in Delaware public schools are the second in the nation to achieve a fully funded salary supplement for all clinicians with the ASHA Clinical Certificate [...]

The nation's first clinical trial is underway at a California military base to test an antioxidant compound that may prevent noise-induced hearing loss. As part of the first controlled trial [...]

One yardstick to gauge the number of teacher-scholars in a discipline is the number of applicants for faculty positions. In fields such as English and chemistry, there are often scores [...]

People with hearing loss soon will have a new option for viewing captions in movie theaters, classrooms, sports venues, or museums-anywhere visual or multilingual access may be needed. A wearable, [...]

Teenagers may have long ago put away their action figures in favor of sports, after-school jobs, and learning to drive--but language disorders are not so easily discarded. Communication disorders rank [...]

Companion Legislation Would Expand SLP Billing For the past two years, speech-language pathologists and audiologists who deliver services under Medicare have had a temporary breather from the $1,500 cap affecting [...]

ASHA's Web site has entered the future. The transformation of the site into an Internet portal will customize online resources, build bonds between speech-language pathologists and audiologists, and set the [...]

More than 60 state association leaders shared recent advocacy successes and honed their leadership skills at the joint annual conference of ASHA and the Council of State Association Presidents (CSAP), [...]

Will Your Program Benefit From This Windfall? Congress moved to make good on its promise to fully fund IDEA as part of last November's budget agreement, and allocated an unprecedented [...]

Each year, thousands of children receive tympanostomy tubes for persistent otitis media with effusion--surgery that may not be worth the risk and cost in light of recent research showing that [...]

Online Resources Aid the Professional Job Search ASHA's expanding Internet portal brings you the Online Career Center--the newest place on the Web for everything related to finding a job in [...]

As cochlear implants have evolved from a single-channel device to incorporating neural response imaging, New York audiologist Patricia Chute has been there every step of the way. When Chute entered [...]

The U.S. Navy recently received a patent for a technique that can prevent or reduce hearing loss after a damaging noise exposure. The technique uses a microcatheter inserted into the [...]

ASHA is bringing the professions to the public with the launch of an Internet gateway. The home page at www.asha.org now greets consumers and professionals with a wealth of information [...]

Technology Brings New Opportunities for Audiologists Middle-ear implantable hearing aids (MEIs) have come of age as a viable alternative to acoustic hearing aids. In August 2000, the Food and Drug [...]

Audiologists are on the verge of a fundamental shift in service delivery as they prepare to meet the needs of the increasing number of infants now being identified through early [...]

From Chicago to Maine, clinicians are transforming national prevention goals into local action. They are responding to Healthy People 2010, a national initiative which includes 467 objectives in 28 focus [...]

Unmasking the sometimes elusive etiology and nature of fluctuating and progressive sensorineural hearing loss in children requires the combined efforts of a team of audiologists, otolaryngologists, parents, and pediatricians. Many [...]

A large-scale clinical trial comparing three commonly used hearing aid circuits has demonstrated that all three provide substantial benefits in quiet and noisy listening situations. The results of the trial, [...]

Audiologist Takes Acoustics From the Classroom to the Ocean How is the speed of sound affected by changes in water temperature and salinity? Do underwater noise levels from boats affect [...]

In the latest phase of a national public health initiative, U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher joined other public health officials in Boston this month for the unveiling of the final [...]

By combining components of a cochlear implant and digital hearing aid, three McLean, VA, high school freshmen took first place in a national science contest with their vision for an [...]

Cochlear Implants Subject of Documentary In a movement toward reality-based television, ABC News producers focused their cameras on the work of audiologists at Johns Hopkins Hospital to give millions of [...]

North Carolina County Goes Back to Basics Phonics As the educational pendulum in Yancey County, NC, swung from a whole-language approach to a phonics-based approach to develop literacy, Michele Christon [...]

Rapid technological advances over the past five years have brought an influx of new amplification and assistive listening devices into classrooms. As a result, educational audiologists are being challenged to [...]

When Hannah MacGregor was born on Jan. 13, 1999, EHDI was not in place and hearing loss was just one of many health concerns as she lay in the neonatal [...]

The Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) Devices Panel of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has unanimously recommended that manufacturers of a middle-ear implantable hearing aid and an auditory brainstem [...]

AuD Students Plan Future The National Association of Future Doctors of Audiology (NAFDA) held its first national convention Aug. 3-5, drawing 250 students representing 10 universities to Crystal City, VA. [...]