Ohio Adds $5 Million to Address Shortages
| The Ohio Department of Education has awarded an additional $5-million, two-year grant extension to the Ohio Master's Network Initiatives in Education—Speech-Language Pathology (OMNIE). |
| Schools 2008: Power in Partnership |
| The ASHA Schools Conference on July 25-27 at Walt Disney World will promote the power of partnership between school-based speech-language pathologists and audiologists through a conference held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Educational Audiology Association. |
| ASHA Dedicates Green Building |
| More than 300 ASHA members, staff, and special guests gathered to dedicate and celebrate ASHA's new "green" national office. |
| Hearing Benefits Upgraded for Federal Employees |
| Approximately 9 million federal employees may enjoy major upgrades in their hearing health benefits, thanks for an ASHA-led advocacy campaign to improve coverage in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. |
| Salary Stipend Targets Recruitment, Retention |
| California's Upland Unified School District has introduced a salary stipend that will supplement speech-language pathologists' salaries with an annual increase to the teacher's salary schedule of between 8% and 12%. |
| "Sponsored Silence" Increases Public Awareness |
| The Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association launched a public-awareness project to help people understand the importance of communication—by taking communication away. |
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Unlocked: A Review of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
| The Oscar-nominated film highlights the work of speech-language pathologists in restoring the ability to communicate to Jean Dominique Bauby, who has locked-in syndrome. |
| Forecasting the Future of Aural Rehabilitation |
| Fourth in a series of articles highlighting the work of master clinicians in audiologic/aural rehabilitation, this article profiles the work of Jerome Alpiner, whose textbooks about aural rehabilitation have been a professional mainstay. *Audiology* |
| Advancing Into the 21st Century: Care for Individuals with Cleft Palate or Craniofacial Differences |
| One of the greatest challenges in caring for children with cleft palate/lip is enabling the community clinician to provide the highest quality of care. |
| Cytomegalovirus: A Major Cause of Hearing Loss in Children |
| CMV is one of the most frequently transmitted common infections that results in hearing loss in children, yet most women in the United States know little about CMV infections and its potential impact on their children. |
Corrections
In the April 15 issue of The ASHA Leader, the Bottom Line article "ICD-9-CM and Pediatric Issues" misidentified the billing code for "lack of normal physiological development." The correct code is 783.40.
A headline on page 1 in the April 15 issue referenced "autism devices." The phrase should have been "AAC devices."