| Success in St. Louis: Health Care Conference/Business Institute Draws 500 |
| More than 500 participants gathered in St. Louis April 5-6 for the 2008 ASHA Health Care Conference and Business Institute. |
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| Emerging Clinical Practices Identified |
| ASHA developed tools and applied a systematic process to identify emerging areas of practice to help members to guide clinical practice, support professional education and development, inform advocacy, and spur needed research. |
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| Audiology Telepractice Overcomes Inaccessibility |
| Telepractice brings newborn hearing screening to hospitals in Canada, cochlear implant mapping to children in Florida, and helps diagnose medical conditions in Alaska. |
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| Environmental Interventions and Dementia: Enhancing Mealtimes in Group Dining Rooms |
| Pleasurable mealtimes can enhance the quality of life of many nursing-home residents with dementia, and environmental modifications can improve the dining experience, support rehabilitation, and enhance nutrition. |
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| Aphasia: The Great Leveler |
| New treatment models help stroke survivors with aphasia learn from one another as they explore new ways of communicating to resume their interests and relationships. |
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| Crossing Boundaries: Accessibility for Children in Rural Areas |
| As members of the Skokomish Nation of Washington State, the authors share their journey in obtaining services for their son who has hearing loss. *Audiology* |
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| Aphasia and AAC: Enhancing Communication Across Health Care Settings |
| A variety of AAC-oriented treatment strategies can enhance communication and participation for people living with severe aphasia, provided SLPs have matched the skills and capabilities of the users carefully with appropriate strategies. |
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| Progressive Audiologic Tinnitus Management |
| Audiologic tinnitus management is an education protocol to assist patients in learning self-management for tinnitus within a hierarchical program so that clinical intervention occurs only to the degree necessary. |
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