ASHA Strategic Plan

Issue E

Fourth Quarter Progress Report (October - December)

Issue E: Facilitating Team Leaders, Lemmie McNeilly and Brenda Lonsbury-Martin

Issue E: Increased international exchange of professional knowledge, information, and education related to ethics, clinical practice, and supervision/clinical education in communication sciences and disorders will require a variety of dissemination, communication, educational, and professional practice delivery systems.

Outcome 1: Increased awareness by ASHA members of the Association's value-added programs, services, and resources available to assist them in serving clients.

Strategies

1. By December 31, 2006, the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Clusters will continue to promote and disseminate descriptions of ASHA programs, services and resources to members and to external audiences including our international members via web material, journal publications, media interviews, Access Audiology, Access SLP Health Care, Access Schools, The ASHA Leader articles, presentations, etc. [Completed]
2. By December 31, 2006, the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Clusters will have hosted the Audiology Conference 2006, the Schools Conference, the Health Care conference, ASHA Convention and other professional-development events to disseminate information important to the services and resources that are available to our members for treating patients and clients from international origins. [Completed]
3. By December 31, 2006, the Special Interest Divisions and International Liaison unit will have worked with the Special Interest Divisions to promote the value-added benefit of belonging to the Special Interest Divisions to both ASHA members, who are not Division affiliates, as well as our International Affiliate members. [Completed]

Outcome 2: Increased use of telehealth/telepractices to provide clinical services within the United States.

Strategies

1. By December 31, 2006, the Professional Practice Clusters (SLP, AUD, OMA) will have assisted in the development of practice-policy documents, professional-development programs, and advocacy with other national agencies to promote recognition and reimbursement of telepractice. [Completed]
2. By December 31, 2006, the State Advocacy unit will have monitored opportunities to promote access to audiology and speech-language pathology by means of telepractice to remote-site health and education settings in state legislation and regulation. [Completed]
3. By December 31, 2006, a staff member from both the Audiology and SLP Clusters will attend the 2006 Telehealth Leadership Conference. [Completed]
4. By December 31, 2006, the National Center for Evidence-Based Practice (N-CEP) will consult with national or other large SLP associations in other countries that are interested in establishing data-collection systems similar to ASHA's National Outcomes Measurement System (NOMS). [Completed]
5. 5. ASHA members and any news relevant to the quadrilateral international agreement in The ASHA Leader, as well as highlight a selection of our international affiliate members with respect to how they use their services and resources to treat patients/clients. [Completed]

Outcome 3: Increased interchange of professional knowledge and information among communication sciences and disorders professionals from different nations.

Strategies

1. By March 1, 2006, the Special Interest Division and International Liaison unit and the Professional Practice Clusters (SLP, AUD, OMA) will have prepared and posted on the website a list of international meetings related to communication sciences and disorders and related areas that will be held in North America. [Completed]
2. By June 1, 2006, the Publications Team in collaboration with the Publications Board will have invited an international author for each of the four scholarly journals to write a review of science in that field from an international perspective. [Eliminated]*
3. By September 1, 2006, the N-CEP staff will have worked with the Web Team to establish a special international site on the ASHA Web-site. [Eliminated]**
4. By September 1, 2006, the Publications Team will have identified several international journals with which they can partner in order to co-publish each other's Tables of Contents (TOCs). [Carry Over to 2007]
5. By November 15, 2006, the Director, Convention and Meetings will have promoted the 2006 ASHA Convention to the international community including Mexico, Central and South America, and Asia. [Completed]
6. By December 2006, the Chief Staff Officer for Speech-Language Pathology will have communicated with professionals from at least three different nations regarding professional information in communication sciences and disorders. [Completed]
7. By December 31, 2006, the Professional Practice Clusters (SLP, AUD, OMA) will have contributed to conferences (e.g., 2006 Audiology Conference, Health Care Conference, Schools Conference) and professional development programs and resources that are accessible to international audiences. [Completed]
8. By December 31, 2006, the Audiology Professional Practices Cluster will contribute content for the 2006 International Society of Audiology meeting. [Completed]
9. By December 31, 2006, the Special Interest Division and International Liaison unit will have worked with Special Interest Divisions to conduct and/or contribute to conferences and professional development programs and resources that are accessible to international audiences. [Completed]
10. By December 31, 2006, the Membership unit will have worked with other NO teams and ASHA leadership to identify strategies aimed at restructuring the international membership category to include more regular membership benefits to our international colleagues. [Completed]
11. By December 31, 2006, the Membership Unit will have worked with other NO teams and ASHA leadership to develop a revamped international membership category. [Eliminated] **
12. By December 31, 2006, N-CEP staff will have initially worked with the Quadrilateral Agreement nations and then expand to other countries to develop a program where systematic reviews on evidence-based practice can be shared. [Completed]
13. December 31, 2006, N-CEP staff will have continued to expand their expertise on international evidence-based practice by attending the annual meetings of both the Campbell and Cochrane collaborations. [Completed]

Outcome 4: Increased knowledge of the systems available to provide education, clinical practices, and supervision related to communication sciences and disorders worldwide.

Strategies

1. By September 1, 2006, Chief Staff Officer for Speech-Language Pathology in collaboration with the International Issues Committee will have developed a plan for reviewing information related to CSD worldwide. [Completed]
2. By December 31, 2006, Chief Staff Officer for Speech-Language Pathology representing ASHA as a member of the international governance on terminology group will have developed a recommended strategic plan for discussion with the EB. [Completed]
3. By December 31, 2006, the OMA and Special International Divisions and International Liaison unit will update and maintain resources to provide technical assistance re: international service delivery opportunities in other countries, etc. [Completed]
4. By December 31, 2006, the Director of Brand Management-Marketing will have determined the feasibility of marketing ASHA on-line professional seminars and other CE products to the International community. [Completed]
5. By December 31, 2006, the Special Interest Divisions and International Liaison, Convention and Meetings, Academic Affairs and the Scientific and Research Development units will plan special activities for the 2006 ASHA Convention related to international issues and for convention participants from other countries including special sessions and a scholar exchange program. [Carry Over to 2007]
6. By December 31, 2006, the National Center for Evidence-Based Practice will look into possibilities to expand ASHA's National Outcomes Measurement System to participation from outside of the United States. [Completed]

Outcome 5: Determined the feasibility of holding an ASHA initiated joint international conference on communication sciences and disorders outside of the United States.

Strategy

By December 2006, the Chief Staff Office for Speech-Language Pathology in collaboration with the International Issues Committee will have developed recommendations for joint international conferences. [Carry Over to 2007]

There are 28 strategies in the work plan for Issue E. Following is the status for the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th quarters.

*No recommendations were forthcoming from the Publications Board during 2006

**During 2006 emphasis was placed on enhancing the EBP Web site for ASHA members rather than developing a special international Web site.

***Duplicative of Outcome 3, Strategy 10.

Note: Some strategies planned for elimination in the 2^nd and 3^rd quarters were completed in the 4^th quarter or carried over to 2007.