Strategic Plan

Issue E

2005 Year-End Progress Report (4^th Quarter)

Issue E: Increased international interchange 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.

Completed Strategies

Publish the Access SLP Health Care and Access Schools bimonthly.
Disseminate information to ASHA members and others on tools/resources available for providing culturally competent services.
Promote and disseminate ASHA programs, services and resources to ASHA members and external audiences (e.g., via web, publications, media interviews, Access Audiology, Access SLP Health Care, Access Schools, The ASHA Leader articles, presentations).
Disseminate an advertisement promoting services, benefits and resources for members who connect with ASHA and to encourage membership by non-member audiologists.
Update the Web-based resource guides to provide easy access to information by audiologists and speech-language pathologists.
Create a CD with ASHA resources on the topic of Hearing aids, Assistive Listening Devices, Practice Management, Clinical Issues, and Classroom Acoustics.
Host the Audiology Conference the Schools Conference, the Health Care conference and other professional development events.
Attend/exhibit at professional meetings (e.g., AAA, EAA, ARA, NHCA, and National Association for the Education of Young Children).
Work with the Special Interest Divisions to promote the value-added benefit of belonging to the Special Interest Divisions to ASHA members who are not Division affiliates.

Eliminated

Translate consumer materials into other languages (e.g., Spanish and Chinese).

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

Completed Strategies

Develop practice policy documents, professional development programs, and advocacy activities with other national agencies to promote recognition and reimbursement of telepractice.
Monitor 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.
Publish an Access Audiology on Telepractice Issues in Audiology.
Attend the Telehealth Leadership Conference.
Disseminate new telepractice policy documents.

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

Completed Strategies

Contribute to conferences (e.g., Health Care Conference, Schools Conference) and professional development programs and resources that are accessible to international audiences.
Disseminate information about ASHA clinical assessment tools appropriate for international audiences (e.g., ASHA Functional Assessment of Communication Skills in Adults, Quality of Communication Life Scale).
Continue coverage of international experiences of ASHA members and any news relevant to the quadrilateral international agreement.
Use Manuscript Central for online submission and tracking of manuscripts for the journals to facilitate having a positive impact on the number of foreign submissions and publications in our journals.
Initiate access to the ASHA journals archive (pay per view) to a world-wide audience.
OMA will update and maintain resources to provide technical assistance re: international service delivery, opportunities in other countries, etc.
Monitor use of online mentoring portal to determine application for cohorts of professionals to exchange information and resources across international lines.
Promote the ASHA Convention to the international community including Mexico and Asia.
Seek speakers for the schools conference from the international community.
Plan special activities for the ASHA Convention related to international issues and for convention participants from other countries including special sessions and a scholar exchange program.
Disseminate a list of international meetings related to communication sciences and disorders and related areas will be held in North America.
Publicize the International Congress of Biological Effects of Noise to be held in 2008.
Contribute content for the 2006 International Society of Audiology meeting.
Ensure that ASHA ethics materials and resources are available to the international community in a format that is readily assessable.
Work with Special Interest Divisions to conduct and/or contribute to conferences and professional development programs and resources that are accessible to international audiences.

Partially Completed

Assist in the identification of ASHA members with expertise in international arenas to serve as authors for Leader articles, resources to be included in e-zines, faculty for professional development programs, mentors, etc.

To be Continued in 2006

Expand the online journals archive to 1980.
Determine the feasibility of marketing ASHA on-line professional seminars and other CE products to the International community.
Study the feasibility of establishing a Web-based membership for professionals in speech-language pathology and audiology in other countries.

Not Initiated

Provide consultation to national or other large SLP associations in other countries interested in establishing data collection systems such as ASHA's National Outcomes Measurement System (NOMS).

Eliminated

Attend the international pediatric meeting to disseminate information to international attendees and to collaborate with audiologists from other nations about current issues and concerns.

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

Completed Strategies

Expand ASHA's National Outcomes Measurement System to participation from outside of the United States.

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