2013 ASHA Convention Content Topic Areas

To learn more about the information covered under each Topic Area, select the links below to read the full descriptions. The 2013 Convention Program Committee Members work to select the most informative Convention content based on proposal submissions to each topic area.

Academic and Clinical Education: Clinical Education and Supervision
Academic and Clinical Education: General Academic Education
Academic and Clinical Education: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in CSD
Adult Hearing: Screening and Assessment
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Business, Management, and Professional Issues
Cross Disciplinary Issues
Fluency
Global Issues and Practices Across the Discipline
Hearing Science
Infant and Child Hearing: Screening and Assessment
Intervention/Habilitation for Infants and Children with Hearing Loss
Intervention/Rehabilitation for Adults with Hearing Loss
Issues in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
Language and Learning in School-Age Children and Adolescents
Language Disorders in Adults
Language in Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
Language Science
Motor Speech in Adults and Children
NeuroAudiology and (Central) Auditory Processing Disorders
Research Issues Across the Discipline
Speech Science
Speech Sound Disorders in Children
Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders
Vestibular/Balance Assessment and Rehabilitation
Voice, Resonance, and Alaryngeal Speech
Voice, Resonance, and Alaryngeal Speech: Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies

Academic and Clinical Education: Clinical Education and Supervision

Content Area: General Interest

• Models of clinical education including non-traditional supervisory models
• Evaluation/assessment of clinical programs
• Technology supported clinical education/supervision
• Formal training in supervision
• Generational issues in supervision
• Promotion of clinical thinking skills and problem-solving in clinical education
• Ethical issues in supervision
• Interpersonal skills and issues in supervision
• The use of reflective writing in supervision
• Evidence-based practice in supervision
• Supervision in telepractice
• Evaluation of students, supervisors and experiences
• Virtual clinical education; web-based case teaching
• Methods and types of feedback in the supervisory process
• Team teaching models in clinical education
• Supervision of speech-language pathology and audiology assistants and other support personnel

Academic and Clinical Education: General Academic Education

Content Area: General Interest

• Models of higher education
• Academic and clinical education – general curricular issues
• Accreditation of academic and clinical educational programs
• Distance learning and on-line education
• Development of clinical doctoral programs in speech-language pathology and audiology – curricular aspects
• Innovative curricular modifications of academic and clinical programs
• Evaluation/assessment of academic programs
• Clinical certification, clinical fellowship, and clinical externship
• Building campus-community partnerships
• Best practice principles for service learning projects and research

Academic and Clinical Education: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in CSD

Content Area: General Interest

• Scholarly inquiries advancing teaching and learning
• Evidence-based education
• Evidence of teaching effectiveness
• Evidence of student learning
• Evidence of the effectiveness of faculty-student collaborations
• Student voices in teaching and learning
• Reflections on evidence-based education
• Evidence of the effectiveness of case-based and problem-based approaches
• Scholarship of service learning
• Planning and developing effective courses
• Feedback for enhanced teaching and learning
• Using assessment to improve teaching
• Research on learning to strengthen instruction

Adult Hearing: Screening and Assessment

Content Area: Audiology

• Screening procedures for adults
• Physiologic assessment of hearing in adults
• Behavioral assessment of hearing in adults
• Auditory disorders and syndromes in adults
• Hearing loss and dementia
• Hearing conservation/noise
• Prevalence of hearing loss and auditory dysfunction in adults
• Computer-based and other instrumentation used in the assessment of adults (excluding auditory prostheses)
• Education and training issues specific to disorders and assessment of adults
• Surgical and medical treatment of auditory disorders in adults
• Tele-audiology (telehealth) applications and issues
• Multicultural/cross-linguistic issues specifically related to adult auditory disorders and assessment
• Administrative and regulatory issues related to adult auditory disorders and assessment
• Tinnitus assessment and management

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

Content Area: Speech-Language Pathology

• Language development/facilitation via AAC
• Language representation (graphics, sign, etc.)
• Augmented input
• Technology issues (development, devices/software) related to AAC
• Funding and policy issues related to AAC
• Inclusion of AAC users in education, work, and community life
• AAC applications and acquired disabilities
• AAC applications and developmental disabilities
• Consumer and family issues related to AAC
• Literacy development service delivery models and practices related to AAC
• Vocabulary selection related to AAC
• Personnel development and training specifically related to AAC
• Multicultural/cross-linguistic issues specifically related to AAC
• General discussion of AAC technology issues
• Education and training issues specific to AAC
• Administrative and regulatory issues related to AAC
• AAC strategies for young children
• AAC applications for hand held devices
• Partner and setting strategies promoting AAC competence

Autism Spectrum Disorders

Content Area: Speech-Language Pathology

• Language, speech, and social-communication in ASD
• Theoretical models of ASD
• Screening, diagnosis and assessment issues in ASD
• Etiologies of ASD and the association between ASD and related conditions
• Broader autism phenotype
• Prevalence of ASD
• Neurobiology of ASD
• Sensory processing issues in ASD
• Cognitive processing in ASD
• Developmental characteristics and trajectories of children with ASD
• Adaptation and functioning across the lifespan in ASD
• Family issues in ASD
• Social-communicative partners of individuals with ASD
• Treatment approaches for children and adults with ASD
• Technological innovations for individuals with ASD
• Efficacy and effectiveness of assessment and treatment of ASD
• Syntheses of evidence for interventions used with individuals with ASD
• Multicultural/cross-linguistic issues specifically related to ASD
• Policy, regulatory and program administration issues specific to ASD
• Personnel preparation and professional development for serving individuals with ASD
• Consumer issues related to ASD
•  Public awareness of ASD

Business, Management, and Professional Issues

Content Area: General Interest

• Service delivery models/systems (e.g., private practice, university clinics, hospital clinics, telepractice, corporate management, schools): Intra- and interdisciplinary concerns
• Licensure and independent provider status
• Marketing and consumer relations
• Practice development, caseload management, and continuing education
• Ethics and trust, risk management, legal issues, and quality control
• Budgeting and financial management
• Billing and reimbursement: Coding, managed care, Medicare and 3rd party reimbursement
• Human resource management: Supervision, performance evaluations, recruitment, retention, and advancement, employee discipline, conflict management, coaching and mentoring, and use of support personnel
• Performance improvement, improvement science, and outcome measurement
• Government regulatory and compliance issues related to JCAHO, OSHA, CARF, HIPAA, etc.
• Leadership program development
• Project management

Cross Disciplinary Issues

Content Area: General Interest

• General issues and considerations which span across more than one professional discipline or area
• Professional issues in clinical practice with related or allied health professionals
• Evidence based and best practices in cognitive science, counseling, economics, linguistics, genetics, education, research methodology, sociology, medicine, psychology, performing arts, or other disciplines that inform prevention, assessment, or intervention across the speech, language, hearing, and swallowing disciplines and/or professional practice of communication sciences and disorders
• Education and training for students and professionals interested in cross disciplinary study

Fluency

Content Area: Speech-Language Pathology

• Theoretical models of fluency and fluency disorders
• Development of fluency in individuals with and without disorders
• Genetic, cognitive, psychological, social, linguistic, and cultural factors related to fluency and fluency disorders
• Physiological, neurological, acoustic, and perceptual issues related to fluency and fluency disorders
• Prevention of fluency disorders
• Education and training issues specific to fluency
• Outcomes research in fluency disorders
• Assessment and treatment of fluency disorders
• Computer-based and other instrumentation for assessment and treatment of fluency disorders
• Consumer issues related to fluency and fluency disorders
• Multicultural/cross-linguistic issues related to fluency and fluency disorders
• Effects of various communication disorders on speech fluency
• Administrative and regulatory issues related to fluency

Global Issues and Practices Across the Discipline

Content Area: General Interest

• General policy or service delivery issues regarding international populations
• Reports of prevalence and access, attitude, and worldview regarding services in countries outside of the United States
• Cultural competence for professionals in serving international populations both in countries outside of the United States as well as in the United States
• Administrative, education, educational models, and collaboration projects related to global issues
• Projects that facilitate student, faculty and/or professional and global experiences in speech-language pathology and/or audiology
• Projects that emphasize facilitation of global cooperation and collaboration among speech-language pathologists, audiologists, speech, language and hearing scientists, affiliates and students who are interested in communication and related disorders with international breadth.
• Research that facilitates global exchange of effective clinical practices across work settings and across countries
• Research among global communities-policies, challenges, strategies
• Implications of the Multilateral Mutual Recognition Agreement (MMRA)

Hearing Science

Content Area: Audiology

• Auditory neuroscience
• Acoustics and psychoacoustics
• Anatomy and physiology of the auditory system
• Signal processing
• Speech perception: psychophysical and physiological aspects
• Modeling of the ear and hearing
• Education and training issues specific to basic science and hearing
• Computer-based and other instrumentation used in auditory research
• Multicultural/cross linguistic issues specifically related to hearing science
• Administrative and regulatory issues related to hearing science

Infant and Child Hearing: Screening and Assessment

Content Area: Audiology

• Screening procedures for newborns, infants and children
• Physiologic assessment of infants and children
• Behavioral assessment of infants and children
• Computer-based and other instrumentation used in screening and assessment of infants and children
• Prevalence of hearing loss and auditory dysfunction in infants and children
• Congenital etiologies (genetic and non-genetic), delayed onset etiologies (genetic), and acquired etiologies (non-genetic) in infants and children
• Syndromes associated with hearing loss (congenital and delayed onset) in infants and children
• Surgical and medical interventions for hearing disorders in infants and children
• Pre-service and in-service education issues specific to screening or assessment in infants and children
• Multicultural/cross-linguistic issues specifically related to screening, assessment, and follow-up counseling for infants and children
• Administrative, ethical, and regulatory issues related to compliance with any aspect of early hearing loss detection and intervention (EHDI)
• Tele-audiology (telehealth) applications and issues
• Counseling regarding topics relevant to hearing loss in infants and children

Intervention/Habilitation for Infants and Children with Hearing Loss

Content Area: Audiology

(All topics below relate to children with hearing loss or auditory processing issues – infancy through school age)

• (C)APD
• Evidence-based practice and efficacy of treatment approache
• Intervention (management and treatment
• Reimbursement for related service
• Service delivery models in: Schools, clinic, hospital, private practic
• Treatment of special populations including non-English speaking, children with hearing loss, etc.
• Audiologic (re)habilitation of
• Children who are deaf or hard of hearin
• Children using hearing aids, cochlear implants, and/or other hearing devices
• Administrative and regulatory issues related to
• Hearing aids, cochlear implants, or other hearing device
• Childhood hearing loss rehabilitatio
• Education issues
• ALDs (personal FM units, group amplification systems, other assistive devices) for families and schools
• Communication options
• Computer-based and other instrumentation
• Used in (re)habilitatio
  Used in fitting Hearing aids, cochlear implants, or other hearing devices
• Counseling regarding topics relevant to hearing loss
• Children and adolescent
• Families
• Early intervention for infants and toddlers who are deaf/hard of hearing (D/HH)
• Techniques; curricula; approaches
• Guiding and coaching familie
• Skill-set of providers; pre- and in-service educatio
• Policies and funding issues
• Education and training issues
• Specific to hearing los
• Specific to cochlear implants, hearing aid, or other auditory prostheses in children
• Candidacy, selection, and fitting protocols for children receiving hearing devices
• Hearing aids, cochlear implants, or other hearing devices including other implantable devices
• Speech recognition, language acquisition, and other outcomes in children who are D/HH
• Verification, coupler, and real-ear measures, and ANSI standards
• Multicultural/cross-linguistic issues
• Specifically related to hearing loss and education or counseling issue
• Specifically related to auditory prostheses in childre
• Specifically related to working with multilingual/multicultural families
• Speech and language development in children with hearing loss, including those using cochlear implants and/or hearing aids

Intervention/Rehabilitation for Adults with Hearing Loss

Content Area: Audiology

• Hearing aids, cochlear implants and other implantable devices
• Adaptive and alternative communication systems for adults with hearing loss and their families
• Engineering/technological innovations
• Curriculum and clinical education issues and innovations
• Communication abilities of adults with hearing loss and their families
• Speech reading and listening training
• Rehabilitation/audiologic strategies for adults who are deaf or hard of hearing
• Counseling adults with hearing problems and their families
• Aging and cohort factors in the intervention for hearing loss
• Multicultural/cross-linguistic factors in the intervention for hearing loss
• Impact of hearing loss on psychosocial function
• Impact of hearing loss on vocational function
• Impact of hearing loss on family function

Issues in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations

Content Area: General Interest

• General policy, prevention, assessment, and/or service delivery issues regarding multicultural/cross-linguistic populations receiving speech, language or hearing services in the U.S.
• General communicative issues associated with gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual populations
• Recruitment, retention, graduation, and career placement of non-international diverse faculty and students in our professions.
• Professional issues related to diverse populations including culturally, linguistically and ability diverse differences.
• Cultural and/or linguistic competence of professionals (pre-service and inservice) providing services with diverse groups in the U.S.
• Administrative and regulatory issues and considerations related to multicultural/cross-linguistic and diversity issues in the U.S.
• Considerations for services to families of CLD populations, including families of children internationally adopted.
• Working with cultural mediators, interpreters and translators across the disciplines in prevention, assessment and intervention.

(NOTE: Submissions related to specific topic areas (e.g., hearing loss, voice disorders, motor speech, etc.) that also address and infuse multiple, cross-linguistic and diversity issues, should be sent to the appropriate specific topic committee. Example: Early Language Disorders in children acquiring both English and Spanish should go to Language in infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers. Please note the addition of a Global Issues and Practices topic as well that will review submissions of global/international issues outside of the U.S.)

Language and Learning in School-Age Children and Adolescents

Content Area: Speech-Language Pathology

• Theoretical models of spoken and written language development and use in school-age children and adolescents
• Psycholinguistics of language in school-age children and adolescents; cognitive foundations of later language development, spoken and written
• Comparisons of the spoken and written language, metalinguistic and/or cognitive development of school-age children and adolescents with and without disorders
• Psychometric properties of instruments designed to measure basic abilities or changes in spoken language, reading, and writing; including standardized testing and progress monitoring tools.
• Screening, assessment, intervention, and supports for oral language impairments in school-age children and adolescents
• Screening, assessment, intervention, and supports, including response-to-intervention approaches, for linguistic and metalinguistic aspects of reading, spelling, and writing disorders
• Evidence-based practice and outcomes research for language disorders in school-age children and adolescents
• Second-language acquisition and/or use in school-age children and adolescents; multicultural/cross-linguistic issues in school-age children and adolescents
• Prevalence of language disorders and language-learning disabilities in school-age children and adolescents
• Etiologies of language disorders and language-learning disabilities
• Language disorders in school-age children and adolescents with co-morbid disorders (psychiatric, genetic, etc.)
• Prevention of language disorders and language-learning disabilities
• Language assessment, intervention, and supports for children with traumatic brain injury
• Language assessment, intervention, and supports for college students and other adults with a history of developmental language disorders; long-term outcomes of individuals with histories of language disorders in childhood
• Pedagogy and clinical education aspects of curriculum and training specific to preparing professionals to work effectively with language disorders in school-age children and adolescents
• Use of technology to support language learning in school-age children and adolescents with language disorders (computers, telepractice, tablet computers, smart phones, other technologies)
• Administrative and regulatory issues related to language and learning in school-age children and adolescents
• Models of collaboration and multi-disciplinary teaming, problem-solving models
• Family-centered practice in supporting school-age children and adolescents with language disorders
• Transition planning for school-age children and adolescents with language disorders

Language Disorders in Adults

Content Area: Speech-Language Pathology

• Language and cognitive abilities in adults with disorders
• Changes in language and cognitive abilities associated with aging
• Comparisons of language and cognitive behaviors in adults with disorders
• Prevention of adult language and cognitive disorders
• Aphasia and related disorders
• Communication disorders and other cognitive disturbances associated with traumatic brain injury, right hemisphere syndrome, focal prefrontal damage, and dementia
• Progressive neurological diseases, and neurological syndromes resulting in acquired cognitive or language disorders
• Pharmacological, surgical, behavioral, and other interventions
• Teaming issues
• Education and training issues specific to language and cognition in adults
• Outcomes research
• Computer-based and other instrumentation for assessment and treatment of neurogenic language and cognitive disorders in adults
• Use of telepractice in assessment or treatment of neurogenic language and cognitive disorders in adults
• Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies for adults with acquired language and cognitive disorders
• Multicultural/cross-linguistic issues in acquired language and cognitive disorders in adults
• Innovative treatment strategies including group and family/caregiver-focused approaches
• Qualitative and ethnographic studies of disordered adult language and cognition
• Assessment of language, cognitive, and communication disorders associated with aphasia, TBI, right hemisphere syndrome, prefrontal damage, and dementia

Language in Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers

Content Area: Speech-Language Pathology

• Theoretical models of language development and use in infants, toddlers, and preschool children
• Developing language systems in oral and/or alternative modes by young children
• Cognitive processes pertaining to language learning or use by young children
• Comparisons of the language behaviors of young children with typical and atypical language
• Prevalence of developmental language disorders
• Screening for developmental language disorders in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
• Evaluation of developmental language disorders in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
• Treatment of developmental language disorders in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
• Etiologies of children's language disorders (including genetics) and the association with related conditions
• Issues regarding service delivery models for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
• Issues related to family systems and natural environments for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
• Personnel preparation issues specific to language in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
• Technology applications for assessment and treatment of language disorders in young children
• Neuroscientific advances with implications for clinical assessment and intervention of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
• Administrative and regulatory issues related to language in infants, toddlers, and preschool children
• Assessment and treatment issues dealing with emerging and early literacy in infants, toddlers and preschoolers

Language Science

Content Area: Speech-Language Pathology

• Brain-behavior-environment relationships: Cognition/language, neural plasticity
• Normal speech/language processes: Spoken and written language
• Theories and models of language and its disorders
• Computer-based and other research technologies for interfaces among speech, language, and sociocognitive/sociolinguistic processes
• Multicultural /cross-linguistic issues and research in language science
• Second language learning in adults and children
• Educational and professional issues specific to language science

Motor Speech in Adults and Children

Content Area: Speech-Language Pathology

• Theoretical models of motor speech control and its application to normal and disordered speech
• Developmental changes in motor speech control
• Changes in motor speech abilities associated with aging
• Comparison of normal and disordered motor speech control
• Dysarthria in children and adults
• Identification, assessment, and treatment, and theoretical models of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS)
• Apraxia in adults
• Motor speech disorders associated with traumatic brain injury
• Progressive and degenerative neurologic disease
• Intelligibility and comprehensibility in motor speech
• Instrumental/objective assessment of motor speech disorders
• Neurologic syndromes of motor speech disorders
• Behavioral interventions in motor speech
• Pharmacological, surgical, behavioral, and other interventions
• Outcomes/efficacy research in motor speech
• Multicultural/cross linguistic issues in motor speech
• Administrative and regulatory issues in motor speech

NeuroAudiology and (Central) Auditory Processing Disorders

Content Area: Audiology

• Basic research and clinical studies that focus on the auditory nervous system using behavioral, electrophysiologic, functional imaging and electroacoustic approaches.
• Assessment of (Central) auditory processing disorder in adults and children
• The auditory nerve
• The central auditory system
• Intraoperative monitoring
• Evoked potentials
• fMRI
• PET
• Otoacoustic emissions
• Facial nerve electroneurography

Research Issues Across the Discipline

Content Area: General Interest

• Research that is relevant across speech, language, and hearing sciences and disorders
• Speech, language, and hearing research in disciplines other than speech-language pathology and audiology
• Interdisciplinary  research issues
• Community-based participatory research
• Best practice principles for community-based research
• Methodological concerns
• Securing research funding
• Evidence-based practice research
• Ethics in research
• Statistics
• Qualitative and quantitative approaches
• Translational research
• Research methodology and data analysis
• Implementation science
• New and burgeoning research methodologies/approaches which are informed by multiple disciplinary perspectives

Speech Science

Content Area: Speech-Language Pathology

• Acoustics/bioacoustics of speech production and perception
• Instrumental assessment of normal and abnormal speech production and perception
• Vocal fold and vocal tract imaging and modeling
• Brain imaging and brain-behavior relationships
• Current models and theories of speech production and perception
• Educational and professional issues in speech science
• Multicultural/cross linguistic aspects of speech production
• Advances in speech science pedagogy
• Vocal learning/vocal flexibility
• Cross-species vocalization
• Bioreactors, biomaterials, and tissue engineering
• Genetic basis of communication and communication disorders

Speech Sound Disorders in Children

Content Area: Speech-Language Pathology

• Theoretical models of articulation and phonological development in children with and without disorders
• Identification, assessment, and treatment of speech sound disorders in children
• Identification, assessment, and treatment of speech sound disorders in multilingual children
• Identification, assessment, and treatment of speech sound disorders in special populations of children
• Administrative and regulatory issues related to phonological and articulatory processes in children
• Technical/Methodological advances in assessment and treatment of speech sound disorders in children
• Efficacy of assessment and treatment of speech sound disorders in children
• Prevention of speech sound disorders in children
• Outcomes research in speech sound disorders in children
• Multicultural/cross linguistic issues specifically related to speech sound disorders in children
• Phonological awareness and literacy as it relates to speech sound disorders in children
• Genetic bases of speech sound disorders in children

(Topics related to speech sound disorders in children with cleft palate and craniofacial anomalies are located under Voice, Resonance, and Alaryngeal Speech Sub-group: Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies.)

Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders

Content Area: Speech-Language Pathology

• Swallowing function in infants, children, and adults without disorders
• Multicultural/cross-linguistic issues specifically related to swallowing
• Prevention of dysphagia in infants, children, and adults
• Innovative instrumentation for the assessment and treatment of dysphagia
• Diagnosis of dysphagia in infants, children, and adults
• Esophageal disorders
• Behavioral management of dysphagia in infants, children, and adults
• Management of dysphagia in special populations
• Pharmacological, surgical, and other non-behavioral interventions for dysphagia
• Nutritional management of persons with dysphagia
• Quality of life issues related to dysphagia
• Interdisciplinary and team issues related to the assessment and treatment of dysphagia
• Outcomes, efficacy, and effectiveness related to the treatment of dysphagia
• Professional education issues specific to dysphagia
• Ethical issues specific to dysphagia
• Education and training issues specific to swallowing and dysphagia
• Administrative, legislative and regulatory issues related to dysphagia

Vestibular/Balance Assessment and Rehabilitation

Content Area: Audiology

• Anatomy and physiology of the balance system
• Vestibular science
• Prevalence of vestibular dysfunction
• Vestibular disorders and syndromes
• Vestibular disorders and assessment in adults and children
• Vestibular rehabilitation intervention in adults and children
• Physiologic assessment of vestibular and balance function
• Surgical and medical management of vestibular disorders
• Counseling adults and children (and families) with balance problems
• Education and training specific to vestibular/balance issues
• Vestibular/balance issues related to traumatic brain injury

Voice, Resonance, and Alaryngeal Speech

Content Area: Speech-Language Pathology

• Evaluation and management of pediatric and adult dysphonia
• Education and training issues specific to voice, resonance and alaryngeal competency
• Normal and abnormal voice production across the life span
• Outcomes research for functional, organic and neurologic voice disorders
• Evaluation and management of resonance anomalies affecting voice quality
• Prevention and intervention issues related to voice and resonance disorders
• Objective voice assessment of voice and speech disorders
• Role of laryngeal imaging in voice disorders
• Interdisciplinary team development
• Management of occupational voice disorders
• Irritable larynx syndrome management
• Voice and speech production after head and neck cancer surgery
• Role of respiratory function to voice/speech production
• Basic science in voice production
• Role of technology in management of voice and resonance disorders and alaryngeal speech
• Computer-based and other instrumentation for assessment and treatment of voice and resonance disorders and alaryngeal speech
• Multicultural/cross-linguistic issues in voice and resonance disorders and alaryngeal speech
• Administrative and regulatory issues related to voice and resonance disorders and alaryngeal speech
• Evaluation and treatment for resonance and voice issues in individuals with craniofacial anomalies
• Management and treatment of resonance and voice issues related to syndromes
• Basic science in resonance and/or craniofacial imaging
• Clinical outcome research related to craniofacial anatomy, craniofacial anomalies, and/or syndromes

Voice, Resonance, and Alaryngeal Speech: Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies

Content Area: Speech-Language Pathology

• Education and training issues specific to clinical competency in evaluation and treatment of resonance and speech disorders associated with cleft palate and craniofacial anomalies
• Evaluation and management of resonance and speech disorders related to velopharyngeal dysfunction, cleft palate, craniofacial anomalies, and related syndromes
• Multicultural/cross-linguistic issues affecting cleft palate and craniofacial populations
• International issues related to cleft palate and craniofacial populations
• Early intervention for children with cleft palate, craniofacial anomalies, and related syndromes
• Feeding and swallowing issues related to cleft palate, craniofacial anomalies, and related syndromes
• Treatment, efficacy, and outcomes for resonance disorders, cleft palate speech, and craniofacial anomalies
• Role of technology for assessment and treatment of resonance disorders, leave palate speech, and craniofacial anomalies
• Administrative and regulatory issues related to cleft palate speech and craniofacial anomalies
• Etiology and identification of resonance, speech sound disorders, and related syndromes
• Perceptual issues and terminology that impact management of resonance, voice quality, articulation, and airflow
• Speech science, acoustics, and perception in resonance, cleft palate speech, and craniofacial anomalies