ASHA Strategic Plan

Issue D

First Quarter Progress Report
January-March 2007

Issue D: Rapid increase in the knowledge and skill sets needed to provide quality professional services in a culturally competent manner across various practice settings will lead to specialization areas of clinical practice related to communication sciences and disorders.

1^st Quarter Highlights

• The 2007 ASHA Schools Conference has a conference theme of "Honoring Cultures." The program will include an opening plenary by Pedro Noguera on disproportionality; closing plenary by Li-Rong Lilly Cheng on connecting through cultures; concurrent sessions including urban culture, deaf culture, Head Start language programs, bilingual students, cultural competence, cross-cultural research on families, and ethics and children from diverse backgrounds.
• A newly formed ASHA Supervision Committee will develop a Knowledge and Skills document on supervision.
• Resolutions have been prepared to form new committees on the Role of the Speech-Language Pathologist in Social Communication Disorders and the Role of the Speech-Language Pathologist in the Identification and Treatment of Auditory/Linguistic Processing Disorders. Both committees will be charged to include information related to culturally and linguistically diverse populations.
• Questions about educational specialty tracks have been added to the Guide to Graduate Education in Communication Sciences and Disorders Survey, which is on schedule for a soft launch by April 30, 2007.
• The Council for Clinical Specialty Recognition (CCSR) is evaluating the Clinical Specialty Recognition program to determine if there are changes that need to be made.

There are 11 Strategies in the work plan for Issue D. Following is the status for the 1^st quarter.