ASHA Strategic Plan

Issue E

Second Quarter Progress Report (April-June, 2006)

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.

2^nd Quarter Highlights

• A poster session submitted to promote the value-added benefits of joining a special interest division has been accepted for the 2006 ASHA Convention.
• ASHA distributed materials at the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) annual meeting and met with the executive staff of ATA to promote roles of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and audiologists and enlist their support for reimbursement.
• Met with staff of National Association for Home Care (NAHC) to discuss the potential of telepractice by SLPs in home care.
• Proposed telepractice legislation and regulation is monitored at the Federal and state level to assure that audiologists and SLPs are not prevented from delivering services in this manner.
• Attended by staff from GRPP due to focus on policy aspects of telehealth.
• The following articles related to international issues were published in the ASHA Leader:
  • Fulbright Scholarship Available in Dysphagia and/or Voice
  • Voice Research—An International Focus
  • Voice Research and Treatment: A UK Perspective
  • Research and Treatment Related to Voice in France
  • Egypt: Four Decades of Voice Research; "A Labor of Love in Bosnia"
  • Needed Now—A Director and Sponsoring University for Bosnia Outreach
  • Voice Research—An International Focus—Voice Disorders Research and Treatment in Brazil
  • Voice Care and Research in Canada
  • Voice Research and Treatment in the Czech Republic
  • Hearing Aids in Botswana
• The Schools and Health Care conferences were open to international participation and had registrants from Canada (4 provinces), the UK, Spain, and Taiwan.

There are 28 strategies in the work plan for Issue E. Following is the status for the 1^st and 2^nd quarter.

NOTE:  Many of the strategies included in the Strategic Plan work plan are ongoing. Please access the 2006 work plan to review all of the strategies being implemented.