|
Abstract: Approve the position statement entitled “Vocal Tract Visualization and Imaging: Position Statement”
RESOLVED, That the position statement reviewed and reformatted by the ASHA-Special Interest Division 3 Working Group on Voice and Voice Disorders, entitled “Vocal Tract Visualization and Imaging: Position Statement,” be approved by ASHA; and further
RESOLVED, That “Vocal Tract Visualization and Imaging: Position Statement” be published in a supplement of The ASHA Leader, be posted on the ASHA professional Web site, be made available upon request from the ASHA Action Center, and be included in the next revision of the ASHA Desk Reference, and that the availability of the report be announced in The ASHA Leader.
Rationale: This position statement was reviewed and reformatted by the ASHA-Special Interest Division 3 Working Group on Voice and Voice Disorders: Julie Barkmeier-Kraemer (chair), Glenn W. Bunting, Douglas M. Hicks, Michael P. Karnell, Stephen C. McFarlane, Robert E. Stone, Shelley Von Berg, Thomas L. Watterson, Alex F. Johnson (monitoring vice president), Amy Knapp (ex officio), and Diane Paul-Brown (ex officio). The current policy document, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (1992). Vocal Tract Visualization and Imaging, was approved by ASHA’s Legislative Council at its November 1991 meeting (LC 51 G-91). The 1992 document, prepared by the Ad Hoc Committee on Advances in Clinical Practice, included a position statement and guidelines and delineated knowledge and skills for speech-language pathologists to perform vocal tract visualization and imaging. The Working Group separated the document into a position statement and knowledge and skills statement. The language in the position statement remains the same as in the 1992 statement, which was embedded in the larger document. The 1992 document may be rescinded if a new “Knowledge and Skills for Speech-Language Pathologists with Respect to Vocal Tract Visualization and Imaging” is approved by ASHA’s Legislative Council.
|